Ice cream tacos

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... we're talking about how two local ice cream makers might be heading to court over taco ice cream, and we're breaking down what exactly happened at Clark Lewis, a Portland restaurant that got caught in the crossfires of a white supremacist group meetup and a counter protest.

Plus, we have a little fall guide to Hood River because y'all, if you have not been to Hood River in the fall, this is it.

You gotta do it.

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"Why would we, why would we make it?" So there's just a lot of back and forth.

Anyhow, all this got me thinking that a whole new generation of kids are now growing up thinking that Portland is the home of this taco ice cream creation when we all know that it was originally the Choco Taco, not made here.

And so my question to you both is what other things do you think Portland now gets credit for that it didn't really originate or just doesn't really deserve? For example, the saying, as we all know, keep Portland weird-

Now, two years later, Taco Bell has scaled this Live Moss Cafe concept from one store to about 40 locations across Texas, Nevada, and California.

The innovation team, the other team that I partner with, is where Taco Bell works on new food forms and ideas that push traditional boundaries and That's where products like the salt and straw ice cream taco that recently just launched.

When we come back, we'll hear some favorite products of hers on Inside Dairy.

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She is with DMI as an embedded Chekhov food scientist at Taco Bell's headquarters in California.

So I asked her, out of all the products she's developed, what's her favorite?

Definitely the salt and straw churro ice cream taco that launched nationally.

That one was a really exciting project to be a part of.