Talk:Granita

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Not Italian ice[edit]

Granita is not the same as Italian ice. Granita is not always a dessert; it can be herb-flavored and used as a palate cleanser. Also, granita can also be much grittier and less smooth than Italian ice. For example, many recipes on the food network website call for freezing flavored water in a 13x9 pan and scraping it with a fork multiple times. Putting the frozen mixture in a blender, like the Italian ice article suggests, would make for a much slushier consistency. --Jacquelyn Marie 21:55, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Granita[edit]

I move this part (the disambiguation) here for further use in a new article (maybe Granita (Restaurant) or Granita (London)).

Granita may refer to 
 
* Italian ice, a frozen dessert made by mixing flavorings (typically fruit juices) with ice. 
 
* The Granita Restaurant was a former London restaurant at 127 Upper Street where Tony Blair and Gordon Brown allegedly agreed the Blair-Brown deal.
 
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I will replace the current article by a description of the Italian dessert.

Granita with Beer[edit]

I had written on this site a year or two ago that Sicilian teenagers mixed granita with beer, only to have another member delete it. I didn't revert because it was possible that I had been mistaken, but when I returned to Sicily this summer I was actually asked at a bar if I wanted lemon granita in my beer (I said yes, and it was a pretty good combo actually.) ^juppiter talk #c 06:08, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:NOR and WP:V -- we need sources! I've reverted your last edit for the same reason. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 14:43, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See: the whole of the article needs sources, should we deleat all but the first cited part? no. We should add a needs citation mark. Find more constructive ways to contribute to Wikipedia please. TrevorLSciAct (talk) 22:54, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Argh! I should have taken a picture! When I go back to Sicily in 2008 I will take a picture of beer with granita in it.... and the 100% true edit I made way back in 2004 will finally be able to appear on Wikipedia! ^juppiter talk #c 16:56, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your picture wouldn't be a source. Please go read Wikipedia:No Original Research, if you haven't. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 16:58, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia policies are put in place over time, because they work, they are not meant to impede article progress, but to promote it, please follow them for more constructive measures. In fact it is stated that policies may be broken when it makes sense. If there is a picture of it it is obviously true, and obviously this is not vandalism or bias, which is why that policy was put in place.TrevorLSciAct (talk) 22:53, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely have better things to do than read all that rules crap.... If I can't write it I can't write it no big whoop, it's not that important ^juppiter talk #c 17:28, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm Sicilian, I've lived in Catania all my life long (I'm 36) and I've been in all the major cities of my island, and this is the first time I hear of granita mixed with beer. Although it is common use putting some lemon granita in soft drinks (eg. Ice Tea), I reckon that, though some bars or some people can enjoy it, mixing granita with beer it is not so substantial or widespread to make it worth citing in the related encyclopedia entry. Out of curiosity, where and when did you actually see it? Drunkpiper (talk) 11:17, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]