august soft serve

In my quest to try all soft serves from a local bakery, today I got their August Raspberry and Lemon verbena flavour. (Note: this was in the middle of the day. I was off work sick due to what turned out to be a wisdom tooth infection and I stopped here to cheer myself up. It's been a bit of a gloomy month health-wise.) I wasn't familiar with Lemon verbena (I assumed the Verbena part referred to a style of ice cream, for some reason) so I was expecting a raspberry and lemon flavour - but there was something else I was struggling to place, a sort of herby, maybe rosemary flavour? It turns out Lemon verbena is a herb, and has it's own distinct flavour, variously described as "...citrusy, floral, and spicy all at once" [1] and with a "bright, slightly sweet, herbaceous flavour with a distinct hint of lemon" [2]. Every day's a school day! I was definitely getting more of a grassy, herbaceous flavour, but maybe it just stood out more as something I wasn't expecting in the ice cream. It was…