Weird Ice Cream Flavors

The start of summer for me means the start of ice cream season. I am sure it is the same for most of you as well. Are you bored of eating the same old ice cream flavors year after year? Let’s venture out and try some weird ice cream flavors!
Weird Ice Cream Flavors
Ice cream is a dessert made from milk, fruit and fruit flavors, although there are innovative minds who have come up with weird ice cream flavors.

Weird Ice Cream Flavors List
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Olive Oil Gelato: ‘Gelato’ is the Italian name for ice cream. It is low in fat and dense as compared to American ice cream. You will have to visit Washington Square Park to savor the olive oil gelato ice cream.

Bacon Topped Ice Cream: Are you a bacon fan? This is going to be your favorite flavor. This weird ice cream flavor has bacon, eggs, butter and milk. I am wondering, where will I actually find this flavor?

Mushroom Ice Cream: There are a couple of flavors available in this weird ice cream flavor. There are mushroom-pecan and mushroom-pumpkin flavors. People say "Mushroom-pecan rocked". Maybe they are right!

Chicken Fried Steak Ice Cream: I agree the flavors are getting weirder and weirder. This is actually chicken steak fried with egg, sugar and butter, which is then topped with steak. I would personally call it chicken steak with ice cream. Don’t you agree?

Deep Water Gelato: Water taken from deep below the earth’s crust is used to make this ice cream. Since it’s an Italian ice cream and contains water, it is naturally low in fat.

Genmai Ice Cream: ‘Genmai’ means unpolished rice in Japanese, which is where the ice cream derives its name from. The ice cream does have the unpolished rice flavor. This ice cream is indeed healthy, due to the usage of unpolished rice.

Dracula Cool Garlic Mint Ice Cream: This ice cream contains garlic in huge quantities. The garlic is supposed to ward off vampires. Added to the garlic is mint, which gives it the ‘cool’ effect.

Charcoal Ice Cream: According to the people who have eaten this flavor, the ice cream does indeed taste good. It has charcoal as an extra ingredient. It does also have charcoal gray color.

Caviar Ice Cream: This innovative ice cream has come from a gourmet French ice cream company called Philippe Faur. The company has designed as many as 73 different flavors. A scoop of caviar ice cream contains 60% caviar, but is currently available only in France.

Spinach Ice Cream: All of you who cringe at the thought of spinach, here is good news for you. There is spinach ice cream now available. This is especially good for parents, who have to keep running behind their children to get them to eat healthy.

Raw Horseflesh Ice Cream: Do you remember eating choco-chips from a chocolate ice cream? The horseflesh ice cream indeed has raw horseflesh added to it. Do not forget that horseflesh is used in dog food!

Shrimp Ice Cream: The shrimp ice cream indeed contains shrimps. This flavor has been invented by a shrimp and ice cream connoisseur.

Ox Tongue Ice Cream: Imagine what will happen if, while having ice cream, you actually lick a tongue? This is said to be a delicacy and it tastes like beef.

Sweet Corn Ice Cream: This is a simple ice cream to make. You will need to simmer milk and cream with the corn on the cob for about 10-12 minutes. Then add corn, vanilla ice cream and egg yolk to the pan. After the mixture thickens, you will have to freeze it and the sweet corn ice cream is ready.

Lobster Ice Cream : You will have to travel to Maine to savor this ice cream. This ice cream is topped with large chunk of lobsters.

A Venezuelan ice cream shop holds the Guinness Book Record for 892 ice cream flavors. These weird ice creams have originated from Japan, to France, to Venezuela to America. So it just depends which country is the next stop on your itinerary and you can savor the weird ice cream flavors.

By Bhakti Satalkar
Published: 8/5/2009
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