While I pride myself on my willingness to accept a weird culinary challenge, this trait has led me to put more than a few strange things into my mouth. Codfish pancakes? No problem! Raw fish in Tijuana? Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Scorpion vodka? Slightly chitinous tasting, but it did the job. Rendered pork fat on toast? Well, once was enough...Recently, however, an Asylum post about weird ice creams made me realize that there might be limits to what I'm willing to consume. Forget red bean ice cream and wasabi sorbet; those are just the table stakes, the bare minimum that you need to get through the door of bizarre frozen desserts. For something really different, try bacon and egg ice cream from The Fat Duck, a British restaurant. If that doesn't float your boat, how about a frozen dessert made from horse flesh, or perhaps a nice bowl of Japanese ox tongue ice cream? If you're in the mood for something a little more savory, there's always Rosa Mexicano's Tomato Habañero sorbet or their avocado, strawberry and white chocolate ice cream!
Okay, I'll admit it: I might be going down to Rosa Mexicano to try a few of these out. After all, the place has never failed me before and there are few culinary horrors that can't be rectified by the addition of a pomegranate margarita. That having been said, it'll take more than a couple of glasses of sake to put a double scoop of frozen ox tongue anywhere near my mouth!
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8-05-2008 @ 2:43PM
Monika said...
I've had a savoury goat cheese ice cream that sounded terrible, but wasn't that bad at all.
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8-05-2008 @ 4:18PM
Liz said...
I've heard that avocado ice cream isn't bad. I might be willing to try that, even w/the strawberries. But not the white chocolate. And forget about any ice cream w/meat. ewwwww.
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8-05-2008 @ 4:41PM
Hungover Gourmet said...
I was just reading about a place in Maine that makes (and ships) their lobster ice cream. Gotta try it! Probably the strangest I've ever had was here in Baltimore where I tried and really liked a local shop's Old Bay Ice Cream. The cashiers were stunned when I ordered it. They said I was only the second person who had purchased it and they thought the first guy did it as a goof.
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8-05-2008 @ 4:56PM
R. P. McMurphy said...
At one (ok THE best) restaurant in NJ. Nicholas, I was recently served a goat cheese and beet salad (basically roasted and cube beets with creamy goat cheese) some crushed walnuts and a scoop of yellow/golden beet sorbet on top.
It.
was.
amazing.
I replicated the salad last night, but didn't atempt the sorbet.
http://rtimko.smugmug.com/gallery/5621594_GJ7GF#345303006_BKrvH - for a picture.
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8-06-2008 @ 10:41PM
Jaci said...
A trip through Japan really opened my eyes to the possibilities of ice-cream. Almost all tourist areas had a soft-serve vendor and each area had its own unique flavor. I tried corn, lavender, seaweed and squid ink ice cream among others. They were all quite tasty - though basically still vanilla or chocolate soft-serve at their core. The local flavors were not overpowering.
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8-11-2008 @ 12:31AM
Paul said...
There are lots of weird ice cream flavours in Japan but most only seem weird, the taste is actually very nice - cherry blossom or lavender are yum. Even a squid ink or charcoal are really good.
ots of these flavours are here http://japaneseicecream.blogspot.com
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