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Going nuts over Toasted Almond shortage

Butch Yamali says sales are off 15 percent

Photo credit: Newsday/Audrey C. Tiernan | Butch Yamali says sales are off 15 percent at his Good Humor franchises in Nassau and Suffolk because of shortages in the popular flavors of toasted almond and chocolate eclair. (April 16, 2012)

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Summer begins Wednesday, and already Long Island is short on one of the must-have items of the season -- ice cream!

Specifically, some of the most scrumptious flavors of Good Humor ice cream -- toasted almond and chocolate eclair.

How could this be happening at the hottest time of the year? According to Jeffrey Graubard, a spokesman for Unilever Plc, owner of the Good Humor brand, "Unprecedented...

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