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And Just Like That, Goth-Friendly Charcoal Foods Were Canceled [foodandwine.com]

It turns out those highly Instagrammable, pitch-black [foodandwine.com] "goth" foods [foodandwine.com] were far edgier than we could have ever imagined. According to a new report in Eater [eater.com], the Department of Health says that activated charcoal is currently banned from all food- and drink-serving establishments in NYC. A spokesperson for DOH told Eater that the rule isn't new, but enforcement has increased.

Morgenstern's Finest Ice Cream, that NYC ice cream shop that caused a mini frenzy in 2016 over their popular jet-black ice cream [foodandwine.com], reportedly had to dump "$3,000 worth of product during a routine inspection," per owner Nick Morgenstern. The ice cream shop posted a cryptic Instagram in late May that hinted something was afoot. The ice cream, which they've been making since 2015, uses coconut ash—a form of activated charcoal. "I don't see any evidence that this is actually a question of public health safety," Morganstern told Eater. "I would challenge someone to identify the public health safety risk of that ingredient."

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