NEW YORK (WCBS 880) -- What's old is new again in Brooklyn where customers are screaming for the oldest form of ice cream.
At the Republic of Booza in Williamsburg, you won't find alcohol, but you will something that in all likelihood you haven't had before.
"Booza is the original form of ice cream that was first developed about 500 years ago in the eastern part of the Mediterranean," said Michael Sadler, who tasted it on a trip to Damascus a few years ago. "I thought it was the most amazing form of ice cream I've ever had."
He describes it as "gelato on steroids."
"It's distinguished from other forms of ice cream by a soft elastic-like consistency that makes it smoother, denser and creamier," Sadler said.
For Rob Albanese and his daughter, visiting New York City from Rhode Island, they had to get their hands on some.
"It's very good," said Albanese said.
"It's amazing, it's stretchy ice cream," his daughter said.
Sahlab and mastic are the ingredients that give booza its yoga-like flexibility and traditionally it comes in only one flavor, but that's not the case here.
"We try to seek out flavors, recipes, ingredients, techniques from around the world that are hyper-regional and not too widely known outside of their areas of origin," Sadler said.