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All other forms of entertainment considered, going out to eat is the one ticket everybody buys, whether it's fast-food cheap seats, big-steak luxury boxes or the chicken-fried arena seating in-between. Let American-Statesman and austin360.com restaurant critic Mike Sutter be your all-access guide to the Central Texas dining-out scene.

In more than two decades at the Statesman, Mike's been a copy editor, Sunday editor, Page 1 designer and, for the past 14 years, XL art director. But after more than 700 XL covers, nine XL Dining Guides, managing the hundreds of listings in our restaurant database and writing stories about doughnuts, Vietnam and the Incredible Hulk, he'll finally be able to put his nine years of fancy restaurant job experience (thank you, drive through) to good use. This means he can write about trailer tacos on South Lamar, $250 anniversary dinners at Hudson's, smoking a cigar with Michael Moriarty at Louie's 106, brewing his own Anderson's Coffee stout beer and freeloading at kids-eat-free nights all over town.

Go out and sample what Mike Sutter recommends in his Great Dishes Gowalla trip.

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By Mike Sutter | Saturday, June 18, 2011, 01:41 PM

Every day of this 30-day sunstroke we call June, I’ll seek relief in something sweet and cold enough to make your head hurt. Bonus: It’s said that our Arctic brethren have 100 words for snow. I’ll give you 30 to describe how hot it is.

DAY 18: MOM & POPS
(Downtown farmers market, Fourth and Guadalupe Streets from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays. 775-1353,. More market locations at www.themomandpops.com.)

The paletas: Strawberry-lemonade and pineapple basil ($2.50 each). “Get your grass-fed popsicles here!” A little farmers market humor from Manuel Flores. You might know Manuel and Laura Flores as the PopSoCools family. Or maybe you know them from GoodPop. Now they’re making their fresh fruit paletas under the name Mom & Pops and working the markets with a handful of their 20-something flavors, including mango-chile, hibiscus-mint and watermelon-agave. You’ll get more tart than sweet from strawberry-lemonade. “We started making these for our kids,” the dad says. “So we wanted to use as little sugar as possible.” For the parents, grassy blooms of basil turn a pineapple paleta into an exotisicle, an elegant palate cleanser for a farmers market lunch.

The hot word: Conairid — The wind is your blow-dryer, set on high. Saves electricity.

(At top: The Flores family. The parents are Manuel and Laura Flores. The kids are Catalina, left, and Ivan. She’s having a hibiscus-mint pop; he’s having pineapple-ginger. American-Statesman photos by Mike Sutter)

See the 30-Day Brain Freeze map here.

• Click on the links to see the rest of the 30-Day Brain Freeze: Day 1 - Amy’s. Day 2 - Jim-Jim’s. Day 3 - Sandy’s. Day 4 - Dolce Vita. Day 5 - Froyoyo. Day 6 - Casey’s. Day 7 - Teo. Day 8 - Ice Queens. Day 9 - Yogurt Planet. Day 10 - Dairy Queen. Day 11 - La Tropicana #2. Day 12 - Big Top Candy Shop. Day 13 - Mighty Fine. Day 14 - F&F Fruit Cups. Day 15 - Baskin-Robbins. Day 16 - Short N Sweet. Day 17 - Mandola’s.