We've seen some interesting, unconventional flavors in ice cream before, some a little less appetizing than others (octopus?). Well, leave it to those crazy Japanese to come up with what seems to be widest variety of them.
The main story on this the Mainichi Daily News is about soy-sauce flavored ice cream. Soy sauce. Why couldn't we just leave soy sauce in the marinade, or even in the shoyu-sara for our sushi? No, the Japanese have added it to milk and eggs and made an ice cream, that I guess, would go well with any sushi flavored ice cream out there.
The links at the bottom of the Mainichi Daily News page go to previous stories about the Wacky World of Japanese ice cream. Yep, I guess there is ice cream flavored like fish. Gross.
More weird and wacky ice cream flavors:
Hotscream
Beer-flavored ice cream
Girl Scout cookies (not weird, but deserves a link)
Generate your own flavor
Octopus crosses the line
Strange British flavors
Seafood flavors from Taiwan
6-01-2006 @3:36PM yelena said... this reminds me a bit about this lady i heard about once that puts ketchup on eveything, even things like pancakes and milkshakes. for the person that puts soy sauce on everything this would be a real treat, i guess. for the rest of us though, all i can say is ughhh!
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6-01-2006 @3:55PM Guillermo said... The Heladería Coromoto in Mérida, Venezuela, entered the Guinness Book of Records with over 600 ice cream flavors. If you Google it, you'll find lots of blog posts about it, here are a few:
http://travellingsteve.blogspot.com/2006/03/892-flavours-of-venezuelan-ice-cream.html
http://groups.msn.com/VenezuelaTourism/icedcream.msnw
Too bad I haven't visited Mérida in a while. It's a really beautiful place.
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6-01-2006 @4:06PM Andrew said... The soy sauce ice cream reminds me of a time in college when someone who lived on my floor suggested we try putting some soy sauce in the vanilla frozen yogurt.
To be honest, we tried it and it tasted like BUTTERSCOTCH ice cream. It was very good.
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6-01-2006 @4:20PM Dan Moore said... Here in the US, "Cold Stone Creamery" (www.coldstonecreamery.com) sold a "wasabi-ginger" ice cream for a while last summer. I like it and still have most of a pint left in my freezer, but really can only eat a spoonful or two at a time.
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6-01-2006 @6:41PM Geena said... The picture makes it look as though the girl eating it isn't enjoying it at all...
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6-01-2006 @8:53PM Use your head, people! said... You guys are all so white trash middle America, aren't you?
You have to use your head sometimes!
You have stop thinking that Ice Cream is only eaten on a cone or by the spoonful from a bucket or a bowl.
It's the METHOD of APPLICATION that is important.
If you know anything abou FOOD - and most of you probably don't - these sorts of COLD CREAMS and MOUSSES can be used to accompany a variety of foods as an extra something on the side, as a topping, or something along those lines.
So stop thinking literally that these sorts of ice creams are to be judged by the girl in the stupid photo.
Seriously, your instinctual reactions make me sick.
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6-02-2006 @4:15AM Ed Charles said... i once sat next to an "ice cream" inventor from one of the multinationals at a dinner. he'd been developing prawn cocktail ice cream. I reckon it wouldn't taste too bad. Now fish milkshake is a different thing althogether.
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6-02-2006 @6:34AM Mitch said... Try using spell check and proofing your work before it goes to press. "some a little mess appetizing" and "wold go well with any sushi"
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6-02-2006 @4:20PM vatel said... Ya'll never tasted a reel soy sauce.... isn't it ?
Like wine, vinegar, oil or even water god things have good taste, try to discover...!
Just think about a Balsamico, i've tasted some, they are more tasty than anything in your little Heinz n' Coke intoxicated horizon....
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6-24-2006 @5:20AM megan said... will miss "use your head people!" not be such a food snob? having gone to japan, people DO eat it as ICE CREAM esp at the ICE CREAM MUSEUM in sunshine city, which is one of the more interesting places i visited in tokyo.. among things i tried were crab, wasabi, garlic, kabocha (japanese pumpkin), and chicken-don. NOt something id eat on a regular basis, but palateable.
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