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Santa Monica hotel introduces menu of five savory and sweet flavors infused with whiskey, tequila and vodka.

Remember hot summer evenings, a trip to the snow cone stand where a rainbow of sugary sweet syrups flavored like fruits and sodas were poured over shaved ice and piled into a Styrofoam cup?

It gets better.

has refined and adult-ified the frozen childhood confections with a new menu of five liquor-infused flavors served in martini glasses. For $12 each:

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  • Apple Grape with Pisco Porton and Snap liquor
  • Blueberry and raspberry with Stoli bluberry and Chambord liquor
  • Strawberry mint with Buffalo Trace bourbon and Crème de Menth
  • Carrot rosemary with Hudson Rye whiskey
  • Tomato caper with Herradura Reposado tequila

Count on some herb and (real) fruit garnishes, but certainly not a plastic spoon.

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