Variety is the Spice of Life… If Only It Was That Simple

Do you notice a trend in country of origin here? I guess when you have 15 people per square foot in a country anything that is a distraction is welcome, and what could take your mind off of…well off of anything like a tall octopus sundea?

wonder if the japanese are smarter than us americans by like starting the next it food thing ….. bet theyll make alot of money ….. *wants to try octopus ice cream* has a nice ring dont you think octopus ice cream

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you can get pork leg ice cream in Taiwan and the most bizzard thing is you can actually find meat in there… it’s almost like chocolate chip ice cream…except…

Calamari isn’t Octopus. The wasabi ice cream does sound rather interesting, I’d happily taste it.

I saw on local TV in Manchester, England a black pudding ice cream. Black pudding is a congealed blood sausage (delicious), not nearly as sweet as the name may suggest though. The reporter who ate it didn’t seem to hate it too much, so it might have been quite nice.

I would suggest you take a look at http://www.thesneeze.com in the “Steve, don’t eat it!” section. :-)

I don’t get the white pepper. Freshly ground black pepper is actually quite nice on ice cream, having a lot of fruity notes. White pepper’s got a stale hot flavor.

I discovered that once with a couple of friends at this ice cream shop in Atlanta that inexplicably had salt and pepper on the tables. I don’t think they sold any food, just ice cream. So I sprinkled some pepper on my tiramisu ice cream just for fun, and found it was surprisingly good. I even tried a little more after getting over the initial shock.

White pepper I don’t know about, but it’s about the only one in that list I would care to try. Maybe the blue cheese and pear, in the hopes it would be a little like cheescake.

Mmm. I wonder how that would taste on a fresh, hot slice of octo-pie? Can I be banned for bad puns?

Most of these strange/exotic flavors originated in Japan during one of their hotter summers…might have been 2002. The Japanese market being how it is, the ice-cream makers tried to boost sales by making flavors that God knows everyone wants! Some flavors I’ve seen are: Whale (Yum!), basashi vanilla(whatever that is), Cactus (Owie!), and Horseradish(…).

Have you ever tried eating jelly beans with the following flavors: black pepper, booger, earthworm, dirt, ear wax, grass, sardine, soap, spaghetti, spinach, and vomit.

see: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002EXSYY/104-1560991-3440729?v=glance

My young brother vomitted after eating three of those jelly beans

The local ColdStone actually had both wasabi and ginger ice creams last summer. I tried both. I think there’s a reason they are no longer making them.

Im thinking the next show the japanese will make is ” dodge the nuclear weapon”…or am I just being an ass?

I’ve had wasabi ice cream before. It’s actually quite tasty, with only a hint of heat. The most popular ice cream flavours in Japan are anko (red bean), black seasame, and sweet potato. All of them are pretty good!

I recently read about harissa icecream, a strongly curried ice cream on a bed of red pepper jam, never tried it myself but sounds interesting, served at a weird and wonderful brasserie in Essex UK….

Jones Soda makes specialty sodas for thanksgiving, such as, turkey pop and gravy and mash potatoes pop. Just so you know.

I ate lobster ice cream once, when I was fifteen and thought doing bizarre things was a neat idea. It was fabulously disgusting–it tasted like creamy vanilla ice cream interspersed with hunks of rank butter and dead fish. A waste of perfectly good Maine lobster and excellent vanilla ice cream. By Ben & Bill’s in Bar Harbor if anyone’s game.

I love french toast. It’s time for french toast flavored ice cream. And none of that artificial french toast flavor, either!

Many of these flavors seem a little too pun-gent for me.

Mahaha, I slay myself.

Basashi is horse sashimi (raw). It’s DELICIOUS! Better than any steak I ever had in America. I’ve tried the most expensive steaks I could find and they don’t compare.

I like wasabi ice cream. Anyone ever tried uni (sea urchin). I had uni ice cream last year. OK, but not as good as fresh raw uni.

I saw an episode of Iron Chef last year where Miyamoto made squid ink ice cream for his meals dessert, but I don’t think that quite outdoes the blue cheese ice cream Jason mentions. I think I’m going to go get a bowl of Three Musketeers Medeival Madness ice cream (Thrifty brand) just to get the mental taste out of my mouth.

Iron Chef rules, I also like the idea of eating wierd things, I want to go to Japan and eat weird Ice cream.

Okay well, I have eaten a lot of really weird stuff on my travels around Asia!

From deep fried grasshoppers (Korea) to horse intestines (Outer Mongolia, and DONT do it!!), to frogs and being offered semi- formed and almost hatched eggs (China and I just couldn’t do it) but overall the nastiest thing was green tea ice cream! The texture was gritty and the flavour like nothing I have ever had before.
Granted that I dislike ice cream at the best of times and that may have had a bearing on that particular choice of nasty!

Wasabi ice cream was really weird…it was shocking to taste spicy ice cream. I don’t think I really liked it. Unlike Debi, though, I LOVE green tea ice cream. Definitely worth a try. I thought it was delicious!

I eat a lot of digusting and weird things but this takes the cake. Octopus Ice Cream! WoW! That is a very unusual mix of foods. Although it does catch me interest I wonder what it tastes like. I know your probably thinking well it tastes like octopus but it might taste like regular ice cream with an unusual aftertaste or something. You never know until you try it. I wish I could have some right now just so I know what it tastes like. So all im saying in a nutshell is dont get picky just because of the name it could turn out to be very delicious.

I’d like to try the weird ice creams ….

Pear and Blue cheese sounds fantastic, and wasabi _might_ work. The rest are just Japanese weirdness.

I’ve heard that white pepper can enhance other sweet ice cream flavours, but I’d never heard of just a plain white pepper ice cream.

Gerry Matlack said: “I saw an episode of Iron Chef last year where Miyamoto made squid ink ice cream for his meals dessert, but I don’t think that quite outdoes the blue cheese ice cream Jason mentions.”

This belongs in the hallowed halls of Chindogu.

Unflavored for me