date:Sep 24, 2012
kpops, a new vendor at this weekend's Eat Real Festival in Oakland's Jack London Square. Lickpops offers a Salty Dog ice pop, with grapefruit, strawberries, vodka and salt, as well as its virgin balsamic strawberry.
These boozy pops have inspired a nickname sure to offend bartenders everywhere - poptails - which is also the title of a new cookbook by Bay Area author Erin Nichols.
It's a trend seen across the country, at least where state regulations allow it.
Soules-Ono worked for five years