And I’ve smelled durian and jackfruit in an open-air Malaysian market on a 100-degree day — it made me puke. Such as, chocolate, chocolate chip, coffee, strawberry…wait, are you fucking serious, Chinatown Ice Cream Factory? Let's keep it light today, shall we? We’re not going to entertain the concept of buttered popcorn in ice cream form—we still live in a society where wrong-headed people actually try to convince the world of the lie that buttered popcorn Jelly Belly are delicious. © 2020 Condé Nast. When we sit down to a nice bowl of vanilla ice cream because we’re in some hypothetical dimension where we lack any sense of adventure of innovation, we never think to ourselves, you know what, this sugary milky substance is delicious, but it could really use some garlic because we want to ward away vampires and it’s not like we have to worry about kissing anyone in the near future if we’re the kind of person who makes life choices like putting garlic on top of ice cream. They are not delicious. There’s no turning back. In other words, the messaging seems to be, it’s 2018 and if you’re still just eating mint chocolate chip, your tongue is basic as fuck. “Yazoo Sue is a malty, smoky beer that can stand up to a bold herb like rosemary, and nuts again add a nice crunch and texture.”. Rocky road. When it comes to ice cream, the trend of the last few years is to push weird flavor pairings hard — ones that theoretically shouldn’t compliment each other, but kinda do. Next time you’re craving an ice-cold cone, why not step out of your vanilla/chocolate comfort zone to try one of these 12 strange-but-real ice cream flavors. Here are 50 of the weirdest flavors we've ever heard of! To better explain this latest iteration in seemingly gross ice cream pairings that weirdly kinda work, we asked Lorraine Elliott, a food pairing expert and founder of the blog Not Quite Nigella, to explain why flavors like goat cheese, marionberry and habañero go so damn well together as ice cream. Ice cream is typically sweet. We can’t say we’re surprised, but damn, we wanted to live in a world where beer flavored ice cream was delicious. While none of the following flavors are common enough to even break through the ranks of Baskin-Robbin’s 36 flavors, they are common enough to, well, exist as a sin against American desserts everywhere. It doesn’t melt as fast either. No. Available at The Bent Spoon in Princeton, New Jersey, the flavor seems inoffensive enough, but do you really need ice cream flavors made out of random leafy herbs? Now, we’re just getting sad. Just pretend you did. Oh mother of God. Oh, you didn’t click on them because that seemed time consuming and you’re just skimming through this anyway? Pingback: More of the Grossest Marshmallow Peeps Flavors |. While cheese at least is dairy much like, you know, cream is, outside of goat cheese (which actually makes a very good ice cream, since goat cheese is delicious when mixed with sweet things) the whole concept of taking cheddar cheese (or blue cheese or what have you) and turning it into an ice cream dish still leaves us unsettled, sort of like trying to convince yourself that the terrorist’s daughter on 24: Live Another Dayis hot while looking into her Chucky Doll eyes. 17-time Pulitzer Award winners. That is sour. Peanut butter cups. Go to ten strangers and ask if they like ice cream. To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Actually cheese flavored is surprisingly delicious. Cool it with the savory ice cream flavors. “This is also a good combination as a spicy chilli like habañero is somewhat tempered by being in a creamy base, plus you get that cold/hot sensation.”, 4. Mashed potatoes sort of look like ice cream, right? They do sell “exotic” flavors too, and if durian is considered normal, wait till you see what kind of crazy shit they come up with for their exotic flavors. 1. Bone Marrow with Smoked Cherries Ice Cream. Ben & Bill’s Chocolate Emporium, based out in Maine, takes a buttered-flavored ice cream, which, strike one, and folds in pounds of chopped and buttered lobster meat into the ice cream, which, strike two, three, four, five, and so on. It honestly just taste like cheesecake only a little more tart and frozen. ( Log Out /  Most anything by Ben & Jerry’s. And then you shovel the mush into your mouth with a blank expression on your face. Ewwwww. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. So, 9 out of 9 Americans love ice cream, meaning that ice cream is infallible, much like pizza or Oreos. Prepare to be shocked: Horse ice cream (this makes me sad--yes, we're talking ice cream made from horse meat), Cold sweat ice cream (made with hot chili peppers, designed to make you sweat ... a lot), Astronaut ice cream (because ice cream was never meant to be freeze dried), Viper ice cream (an Asian delicacy, say some, which receives it's flavor from (try not to gag) snake meat), Fish ice cream (apparently it's popular in Japan, who knew? Have seen Rocky IV 87 times. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. The fuck is wrong with you guys? Fish was not meant to be pulverized and turned into ice cream, not on American soil goddamn it. “Enter the pineapple. Have you tried any of these ice cream flavors? When you have a fruit that is so pungent that it’s actively banned from various southeast Asian hotels, it’s probably not a great idea to combine it with milk and turn it into a frozen dessert for general consumption. I haven't tried it, but I've heard it's wild (in a bad way). Pingback: Wherein AFFotD Scoffs at the Attempts of British Tabloids to Critique America’s Culinary Practices | affotd, Pingback: Goddamn it Japan, You’re Doing it Wrong: Japanese Ice Cream Flavors | affotd. Astronaut ice cream (because ice cream was never meant to be freeze dried) Viper ice cream (an Asian delicacy, say some, which receives it's flavor from (try not to gag) snake meat) Some of you might be unfamiliar with the giant, spikey fruit that’s most popular in southeast Asia, and we don’t blame you, since if we had the ability to go through life without knowing about the existence of a giant fruit that smells like “rotten onions, turpentine, and raw sewage” we’d be happier in our day-to-day lives, and probably would drink less. Ad Choices. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Anyway, below are a list of ten ice cream flavors available in America that you’d better not even fucking think about putting near a slice of apple pie. So why not combine the two! Because it’s filled with lactic acid. Change ). Horse Flesh 23-time National Whiskey Chugging Competition champions. 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