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It's the fantasy of every actual and inner child to enter a world where sweet treats flow from the faucets and jellybeans rain from the sky. Today's Groupon shatters the candy pane between fantasy and reality with $8 for $16 worth of frozen yogurt at 16 Handles in East Village. The name springs from the rotating cast of 16 different flavors of frozen yogurt on tap every day. Peruse the selection at this fantastical hub of lucid sweet dreams to create a concoction that truly reflects your sweet tooth's bold idiosyncrasies.
Every creation is priced at $0.49 per ounce, even if the content is a drop of yogurt and five ounces of Cocoa Pebbles or vice versa. The average large cup is about $5. Frozen yogurt is an inherently light dessert, with a half-cup serving often containing 100 calories or less. Where the numbers go from there depends on how many half-cup servings you crave and what you top them off with. You won't receive any credit or cash back, so you build a behemoth 32-ounce empire, or use your Groupon toward multiple cups for your kids, yogurt-fueled robodog, or perfect strangers named Balki Bartokomous.
Flavors are constantly changing, with a different assortment of 16 playing the field at any given time, like a precision team of Mathletes. Possible flavors you may encounter and consume include NY cheesecake, Irish mint, peanut butter, or margarita tart. The dessert den also offers sugar-free (chocolate, vanilla, strawberry) and dairy-free (mango tango, very berry, kiwi strawberry) options to satisfy sensitive bellies.
Try seasonal fruit toppings such as blackberry, mango, and kiwi, or more sweet-tooth-friendly fixings like chocolate-covered pretzels, Butterfingers, cookie dough, or Cinnamon Toast Crunch. The topping bar stretches as far as the eye can see, which is coincidentally as far as the stomach can eat. Combinations of the 30-plus toppings and 16 flavors are as endless as a colony of ants in a kaleidoscope. Proven mixes are featured on 16 Handles' website, giving curious customers a sense of possible possibilities.
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Reviews
16 Handles has the press eating out of the palm of its giant, frozen, yogurt-filled hand. The yogurtry was named Best Frozen Yogurt by New York Press and Parents' Pick 2009 Best Ice Cream in New York City on Nickelodeon Parents Connect, and it has been featured on ABC 7 News and in the New York Times:
- I sat down at one of the five cafe tables and wondered if the yogurt would taste as good as it looked. It did. There was no hint of the chemical aftertaste found in some frozen yogurts, and the flavors were true to their names. – Kelly Feeney, New York Times
- …16 Handles has been serving up scrumptious scoops of frozen yogurt "your way"—which actually means that you get to scoop up as much or as little as your sweet teeth desire. – New York Press
Fans scream for ice cream and yelp for frozen yogurt, and that's just what nearly 200 Yelpers have done, giving 16 Handles four stars alongside MenuPagers. Eighty-two percent of Urbanspooners like it:
- …I could not get past the quality and mouthfeel of this yogurt. It was really icy, the mango tango one had the feel of sorbet and not yogurt. The toppings buffet was interesting and I had caramel (so good), strawberries, mango, chocolate chips and a little graham cracker crumbs. – Yogurt fan, MenuPages
Groupon Says
Famous Hoaxes and the Disappointing Truth
To the untrained eye, frozen yogurt at first appears to be ice cream, but when the truth is revealed, most people are happy to be eating a healthier snack. However, not all hoaxes work out so well. Here are some disappointing hoaxes:
The Hoax: The Cardiff Giant, a 10-foot-tall petrified man found buried in the ground.
The Disappointing Truth: It was actually just a carved stone that caused all who touched it to see gruesome visions of playoff baseball.
The Hoax: Crop circles, supposed evidence of alien visitation.
The Disappointing Truth: The circles were created by two Englishmen dressed like two Irishmen.
The Hoax: The Turk, a supposed automaton that could play chess.
The Disappointing Truth: The chess was actually played by a midget underneath the chessboard. Although the mechanical Turk could move the pieces and feel the human emotion of anger, it could not play chess.
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