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18 Unusual Ice Cream Flavors From Around The World

Published on: July 18, 2009 – 10:23 am by Jillian Madison Comment

SPAGHETTI & CHEESE ICE CREAM

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Found in an ice cream shop in Merida, Venezuela, that sells over 900 unusual flavors. This particular one is cheese flavored ice-cream with ground-up spaghetti pieces (no sauce).

SPLEEN & ARTICHOKE ICE CREAM


Andrew Zimmern ate this in Italy. Thanks, but I’ll pass.

OCTOPUS ICE CREAM


From Japan, where it’s known as Taco Aisu. Actual octopus meat in a slushy cherry ice.

HORSE FLESH ICE CREAM


This isn’t ice cream for horses… it’s RAW HORSE FLESH in vanilla ice cream. From Japan.

SALAD ICE CREAM


Strawberry ice cream with cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, and lettuce.

GARLIC ICE CREAM


Free? I guess no one would buy it so they had to give it away.

SQUID INK ICE CREAM


Found in Japan. The squid ink gives the ice cream a dark charcoal color.

GOAT ICE CREAM


Made with goat’s milk, and actual GOAT BITS. Popular in Asia. Yum!

CONDOM ICE CREAM


Just snip the tip, and the chocolate ice cream oozes out. <Sarcasm>How appetizing.</Sarcasm>

AQUTAK


An Alaskan ice cream-like food made from whipped fat, berries, sugar, and leftover meat.

THE MASH CONE

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From England. Sausage, mash potatoes, gravy, and peas in an ice cream cone. Technically it’s not ice cream, but it’s on a cone… and it’s gross… and that’s good enough for me.

CAVIAR ICE CREAM

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Made with 60% white sturgeon Alverta Royal Petrossian caviar. Offered by gourmet French ice cream company, Philippe Faur.

VIAGRA ICE CREAM

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Need a little assistance in the bedroom? Try this Viagra flavor, originally created by Italian entrepreneur Franco Corradi.

CHEESE ICE CREAM

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Cheese ice cream from the Philippines. According to the package, it’s “heavenly cheese mellorine loaded with bits of premium cheddar cheese.” People say it smells like moldy, cheesy popcorn.

CHICKEN WING ICE CREAM

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From Nagoya, Japan.

YAM & COCONUT ICE CREAM

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Made by Nestle, and sold in Singapore.

CHILI PEPPER ICE CREAM

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Also from Singapore. Hot, spicy chili peppers (and seeds!) in a tangy tomato-flavored ice cream.

FISH ICE CREAM


This particular variation is an Indian flavor, made using cooked cuttlefish, eggs, sugar, butter, and emulsifiers. Japan also has a fish ice cream made with saury, a saltwater fish.

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  1. July 18th, 2009

    Yam and coconut actually sounds decent. Weird, but decent. And I’d TRY the chili pepper one since I love hot things, and maybe the squid ink swirl because I keep hearing people rave about it. Everything else is either negotiable or negligible.

  2. avatar CoffeeAddict
    July 18th, 2009

    I hadcheese ice cream. It’s actually quite tasty and had tiny bits of cheese in it. It sounds off-putting but can’t rag on stuff unless you try it, right?

  3. avatar UGH
    July 18th, 2009

    Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

  4. avatar Kittykitty
    July 18th, 2009

    Raw horse in vanilla ice cream. There are just no words.

  5. avatar *Di*
    July 18th, 2009

    This sort of re-defines “ice cream” for me in big way – ick – “I scream” maybe . . .

    Yam and coconut sounds pretty good, tho’

  6. avatar DesignerJeans
    July 18th, 2009

    Ya, gotta say the Yam and Coconut would be one I would try.

    Anyone for Vodka flavored Ice Cream? ;)

  7. avatar kayjay
    July 18th, 2009

    love it!

  8. avatar tunaman
    July 18th, 2009

    I fail to see how the “MAsh Cone” is gross in any way.

  9. avatar Ellen
    July 18th, 2009

    Haha @Tunaman, I think it looks awesome!

  10. avatar Cindy
    July 18th, 2009

    I have eaten the cheese one, and I’m surprised that it’s counter part corn and cheese ice cream wasn’t included. It’s actually not that bad.

    And the yam and coconut is like the best thing ever!

  11. avatar Jessi
    July 18th, 2009

    #3 would actually be Tako Aisu, haha – Taku is Octopus in Japanese, so it is actually a very fitting name for ice cream with octopus bits in it. Which… really just sounds gross xD

  12. avatar bobbyflayfan
    July 18th, 2009

    There were a few I would try; yam and coconut, caviar, cheese, squid ink, chili pepper . . . the mash cone looked kind of interesting too. The horse flesh one? THAT one makes me kind of gag. So does the octopus one. Meh.

  13. avatar Paul
    July 18th, 2009

    Also found in the Philippines:

    Chocolate and cheese
    Avocado

    No kidding.

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    avatarMhz. X replied on: February 5th, 2010 at 2:18 am

    oh? really? where?? new york?? hahahahahahahaha!!! funny! tang ina!!!

  14. avatar Stephanie
    July 18th, 2009

    @ designer jeans: Please don’t tempt aunt sandy! You’ll give her ideas!!

  15. avatar Jennifer
    July 19th, 2009

    Avocado ice cream is actually really good! Alton Brown made an avocado milkshake/ice cream (I can’t remember which one) in a Good Eats episode.

    Baby yam (ube) is very popular in the Philippines. My parents swear by the cheese & corn ice cream, but I won’t touch it.

  16. avatar Barb
    July 19th, 2009

    Mmmmmmm. Spleen.

  17. avatar foodfanatic
    July 19th, 2009

    Actual cheese ice cream is a favourite in the Philippines. I don’t fancy it but the purple ice cream on the left is amezzin. It’s called ube- they put it on top of Filipino sundaes. I’d like to try the chili pepper ice cream, to be honest. Have you tried chocolate with chili pepper?

  18. avatar Derek Lutz
    July 19th, 2009

    Andrew Zimmern says that ice cream is not “testically” enough for his palate.

  19. avatar Steffi
    July 19th, 2009

    I would definitely eat the Yam and Coconut…that sounds pretty tastey!

  20. avatar Wesley
    July 20th, 2009

    Those Ricers will eat just about anything uh ? I’m surprised I didn’t see skunkassshole icecream.

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    avatarjobols replied on: March 10th, 2010 at 9:55 pm

    i bet you’re one of your so-called Ricers, wannabe thug.

  21. July 27th, 2009

    Dunno about you, but nothin’ says lovin’ quite like Chicken Wing Ice Cream. :x

  22. July 28th, 2009

    It’s so icecream!

  23. avatar Nicky
    August 3rd, 2009

    I’d eat the yam and coconut ice cream. You see ube frequently in halo-halo.

  24. avatar Minaru
    August 11th, 2009

    Actually the cheese ice cream tastes nice, and NO it doesn’t smell like popcorn. ^_^

  25. avatar Heithmann
    August 15th, 2009

    Cheese ice cream is not that unusual! I once tried balsamic vinager ice cream with pork chops, and was really taste! Most of those salty ice creams are made to be eaten with the hot main course!

  26. avatar saitokthx
    August 19th, 2009

    that’s some unusual ice cream alrig…*barf*

  27. avatar saitokthx
    August 19th, 2009

    that’s some ice cream alrig…*barf*

  28. avatar Jorge
    August 23rd, 2009

    You know, the chile pepper ice cream actually sounds good. I’m mexican, and we have all sorts of different spicy flavors for ice cream, sometimes we even sprinkles some chile powder on sorbets

  29. avatar JG
    August 24th, 2009

    “Yam” is actually Taro (which isn’t a “yam” actually or “sweat potator” which is also not a yam (or taro)); all are simply vaguely similar tropical starchy roots.

    The purple ice cream next to the Quezo Real is “Ube” or Taro also. On the other side is “Buco” or “Buco Salad” is coconut ice cream. Real Buco salad is fresh iced coconut meat or while buco is just fresh coconut meat. Both flavors are pretty common through out South East Asia and quite delicious.

    Somehow you managed to miss “Durian” ice cream. It makes me sad. Durian ice cream makes garlic ice cream seem pretty tame.

  30. avatar Anonymous
    August 24th, 2009

    Man are you people fucking retarded, how can you immediately assume that a flavor is ‘popular’ in a country just because it’s exotic/not American

  31. avatar Lisa
    August 27th, 2009

    I actually was born and raised in Gilroy, California and to tell you the truth, garlic ice cream is actually rather good. Well, that is if you get the vanilla-garlic flavor, which is just vanilla soft serve with garlic powder mixed in. Stay FAR AWAY from any other garlic-infused flavors, like chocolate-garlic. Yuck.

  32. avatar Anon
    August 27th, 2009

    Gross! Every one of these look gnarly and would be enough to put me off ice cream for life!

  33. avatar kreiyu
    September 4th, 2009

    they don’t all look gross. i’d try the condom one cause it’s simple ice cream, just in a condom and the the mash cone is just a sausage, potatos, gravy and peas in a cone. and the yam and coconut one sounds good. come on who hasn’t had sweet potatos at a holiday dinner. all the others make me want to heave till i die. lol and to wesleys comment, i wouldn’t be suprised if they did have a skunkasshole flavor.

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  35. avatar Cathy
    September 5th, 2009

    I’m a big fan of the yam and coconut flavour. It’s my favourite!

  36. September 5th, 2009

    yucky ice cream is just yuck !!
    wtf horse flesh ?
    did ppl really eat that ?

  37. September 9th, 2009

    There’s a place in Hollywood called “The Stinking Rose” that serves garlic ice cream with a chocolate topping and it’s divine, I assure you. It’s one of the things I get every time I go there. It’s not an over-powering flavor, it mostly just tastes like vanilla ice cream with a slight garlic after taste and the chocolate is a wonderful addition to the oddness of the ice cream.

  38. avatar Dave
    September 11th, 2009

    I’ve had the garlic ice cream (Stinking Rose,San Francisco) and it’s far better than you would think. Vanilla with the garlic sweetness and just a hint of funk at the the end. Super tasty.

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  40. avatar garrett
    December 10th, 2009

    There is a place in Prague at the bottom of Prague castle that serves Absinthe ice cream. http://www.patrickcooper.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/prague-2-absinth.jpg

  41. avatar LaContessa
    January 11th, 2010

    I was in Nantucket this summer and there was a small little clam chowder/sandwich shop that made and sold home made lobster icecream. It was a vibrant orange and had fresh lobster meat in it. It was … interesting?

  42. February 5th, 2010

    how amazing!!!!! I like the fish ice cream

  43. February 5th, 2010

    how amazing!!!!! how to make fish ice cream

  44. February 5th, 2010

    the pictures of ice cream looks like delicious but I think it’s not….

  45. avatar Kayra
    February 11th, 2010

    hey im so glad u put this online cause i needed this for my project. ps this website is gunny

  46. avatar Joel
    February 28th, 2010

    i’m from Singapore and the yam and coconut ice cream is not weird at all. in fact its pretty good. i haven’t seen the chilli pepper one though

  47. March 10th, 2010

    Quezo Real from the Philippines is still for me….yummmmyyy

  48. avatar desi marie
    March 10th, 2010

    our phil. cheese ice cream absolutely does not smell like moldy, cheesy popcorn.. it’s actually very delicious–we got some of the best ice creams & they’re not weird nor gross at all.. *

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