Behind the Badge
Get the scoop on the ice cream named after AF&R firefighters
0Everyone has a food item that is tied to a special memory. For Anaheim Fire & Rescue (AF&R) Battalion Chief Brent Faulkner, his special food happens to be passion fruits. Although this might seem like a unique choice, considering passion fruits are hard to come by in the United States, Faulkner worked as a missionary in Brazil for two years. While he was there, Faulkner fell in love with the sweet and tangy passion fruit which in Spanish is called maracuyá. When a new ice cream shop, called Tocumbo, opened up at 956 S Euclid St. in Anaheim, Faulkner (who…
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