20 Strange Ice Cream Flavors: Part 1

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Who doesn’t like ice cream? Especially on a hot August day!  Well, mashed.com has a list of 20 of the strangest ice cream flavors ever!  Today’s post brings you the first ten…tomorrow the other ten.  These are BIZARRE in my opinion, but I’d love to hear if there’s ANY that you would try!

Everything Bagel

Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream from Ohio essentially broke the internet when they first debuted their pint of Everything Bagel ice cream. Jeni’s starts with a cream cheese ice cream base that’s a tangy staple in some of the other brand’s flavors. Things get truly unhinged from there. The ice cream then includes a swirl of what Jeni’s refers to as “everything gravel.” Basically, it’s a savory strudel featuring sesame seeds, poppy seeds, and garlic and onion bits. It’s the ingredient really responsible for reinforcing the bagel flavor and the pleasant savory element to offset the sweet. Without the cream cheese base, this might be one of those flavors you try one scoop of and move on from. However, Jeni’s somehow made this a flavor that you’ll weirdly find yourself wanting to return to. If anyone can do it, it’s the ice cream crafters at Jeni’s, so don’t question their genius.

Foie Gras

Philippe Faur is a French ice cream manufacturing company that has a list of flavors that reads like a generic index of a food encyclopedia. The brand literally seems to make any and every flavor they can come up with, whether customers asked for it or not. Their savory flavors roster, for example, includes ice cream bases rooted in flavors like caviar, mustard, truffle, and more.

Hands-down the most unusual flavor on the list is foie gras, which is pâté made by the liver of gavage-fattened ducks or geese. It’s a controversial dish that’s a delicacy in France and beyond, but it’s truly hard to imagine how the flavor would translate as a dessert. It would make sense to use foie gras ice cream as the topper of an appetizer at a fancy restaurant to add texture and depth. However, it’s hard to imagine that anyone digs into a pint of this with a spoon to soothe their sorrows after a break-up considering the flavor is quite an acquired taste.

Deviled Egg Custard with Smoked Black Tea

Salt & Straw Ice Cream is a popular ice cream chain with most of its locations on the West Coast, and an ever-rotating menu of strange and never-before-seen flavors. For summer 2022, the brand debuted a truly inventive flavor with the Deviled Egg Custard with Smoked Black Tea ice cream. The flavor features egg yolk custard mixed with Kala Namak, a black salt from the Himalayan Mountains, and smoked tea-infused shortbread. It’s topped off with a balsamic egg white marshmallow fluff which reinforces the “deviled” egg flavor.

It’s an ice cream for foodies, not necessarily picky eaters. Keep an open mind and prepare to be pleasantly surprised by the explosions going on in this pint. Every bite reveals a different layer of intensity. If you find yourself in Oregon, California, Washington, or parts of Florida, it might be worth it to make an ice cream road trip for this flavor and dozens of others.

Wasabi

Wasabi is best known for being the bright-green condiment served alongside sushi that is spicy enough to clear out your sinuses. The entire ingredient is like the antithesis of ice cream, but il Laboratorio del Gelato in the Greater New York City area took it as a challenge. The company creates so many gelato flavors that use simple ingredients perfectly executed, like mascarpone cheese or pink peppercorn.

The same goes for the company’s smooth and creamy wasabi gelato that has a slight kick. The folks at il Laboratorio del Gelato take the Japanese root that’s grated into a green paste and slightly infuse it with their base ice cream blend. The company compares the flavor to horseradish or hot mustard, but it’s pretty distinct all on its own. Again, it’s simple yet so innovative and wasabi is probably not a flavor you’re likely to see be made into a Ben & Jerry’s pint anytime soon.

Coffee Garlic Herb Almond Chip

Okay, so we know that coffee and chocolate ice cream is a pretty standard flavor in the U.S. and beyond. You want to add almond chips to it? That sounds like a great combination as well. But Max and Mina’s awe-inspiring ice cream shop in Queens, New York, decided to take it a step further by creating a flavor called Coffee Garlic Herb Almond Chip.

Max and Mina’s is a famous shop that should be on every ice cream lover’s bucket list, whether they are experimental with their orders or not. However, this flavor that united bitter coffee with sweet chocolate and herbaceous garlic is another combination that has to be tasted to understand fully. It’s probably not the best scoop to order on date night though, because it’s probably one of the few ice creams on the planet that will leave you with garlic breath after the fact.

Mountain Dew and Doritos

Sparky’s Homemade Ice Cream in Columbia, Missouri, should be a stop for anyone looking to pursue as many weird ice cream flavors they can get their hands on. Sparky’s is notorious for their concoctions; as Columbia Missourian notes, they may be best known for the time they thought to use the carcasses of cicada bugs in an ice cream. Cicada likely won’t be making a reappearance on their menu anytime soon (probably for the best), but Sparky’s will never stop making ice cream that’s as intriguing as it sometimes is off-putting.

One time the folks at the scoop shop decided to take the classic gaming snack duo of Mountain Dew and Doritos and blend them together in one ice cream. The photo on the company’s Instagram page shows that the finished product looks like what you might doodle up if someone asked you to draw Mountain Dew and Doritos ice cream — topped with green sprinkles and Dorito crumbles. It’s not for everyone, but definitely a flavor to take at least one bite of just to say that you did.

Margherita pizza

Sparky’s didn’t stop at junk food snack-inspired ice cream. It’s worth following the shop’s Instagram page whether or not you’re in the Columbia area just to see what creations they come up with. You may stumble upon flavors like Margherita pizza, which is packed with tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese, and basil. Yes, we are still talking about ice cream. Sure, tomato and basil sorbet has been done and tried before, and it’s still pretty special. But this ice cream is literally the dessert version of the iconic pizza pie.

It’s pretty genius that someone even thought of this flavor combination in the first place, let alone that the shop executed the idea and sold it to daring customers. It’s likely that this is one of those flavors you try once and never return to again, but it’s definitely a flavor to brag about having that likely no one else you encounter will have also tried before.

Kraft Macaroni & Cheese

Van Leeuwen Ice Cream did the unthinkable when they unveiled ice cream pints inspired by flavors of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. The ingredients are relatively simple — it’s literally ice cream with Kraft cheese powder sauce mixed into it. It’s another option that’s an acquired taste and there’s a chance you won’t put it in your regular rotation, but it’s fun for the novelty of it. Who knows, sweet and salty combinations are always the sleeper hits.

Van Leeuwen’s Kraft Macaroni & Cheese pint could be a good way for someone to indulge their junk food cravings for both ice cream and cheesy snacks at the same time. If not, it’s still a fun pint to purchase one time and try for the fun of it. u/KingKonah wrote in the ice cream subReddit page that the combination of flavors is so weird that it works. “It’s dairy on top of dairy and neither takes away from the other,” they shared.

Cold Sweat

At Sunni Sky’s Homemade Ice Cream, they have a flavor that’s so out of this world, you have to sign a waiver to even order it. The ice cream is loaded with different peppers and hot sauce for a cool treat that will have you chugging water after just one lick. It’s a buzz-worthy treat that has the bravest ice cream aficionados traveling to Angier, North Carolina, and has been featured on the Food Network and the Travel Channel. Sunni Sky’s makes another spicy flavor called Exit Wound that also requires a waiver, but you would have to be extremely daring to attempt to sample both scoops at the shop (and sign two waivers in order to do so).

Some reviews on Yelp compared the flavor of Cold Sweat ice cream to a spicy Indian pickle. “Managed to eat 3 small pinches. True to its name, it was super spicy,” one Yelp review reads. Sunni Sky’s sells more than 100 flavors at their shop, so there are plenty of options to eat after to cool down your tongue after a bite of cold sweat.

Sesame gelato with miso caramel, cookies, and ramen

Chicago’s Black Dog Gelato is a must for those obsessed with ice cream. In fact, even if you’re far away from the Windy City, the shop offers a pint club so you can sample all of the innovative flavors they have to offer. Black Dog Gelato is always featuring a rotating list of flavors from goat cheese cashew caramel to sesame cookie dough. One of the most eye-catching flavors they’ve experimented with is a sesame-based gelato with swirls of miso caramel, cookie chunks, and caramelized ramen noodles.

That’s right, those hard little squiggly noodles get the artisan treatment in this pint that turns the pantry staple into something that resembles a sugary crouton with its satisfying crunch. It’s not a staple on the Black Dog’s shop menu, but it’s a must-order if you happen to be at the right place at the right time when this treat is available.

So…any takers on the first ten?

SOURCE: mashed.com

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  1. Citizen 817
    August 8, 2023 12:18 pm

    @realDonaldTrump

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    11h
    Jesse Watters: “The Biden administration is demanding Donald Trump give up his freedom of speech during the presidential campaign. The Democrats’ 2024 strategy is to prosecute Trump instead of persuade voters to vote for Biden. And the media’s following suit: they won’t let Trump’s lawyers talk and won’t let you listen to Trump himself.“

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  3. this sounds like a threat against President Trump…
    FTA
    Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that the various federal indictments against former President Donald Trump are “beautiful” while insisting that a second Trump term in the White House “cannot happen.”

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/pelosi-says-2nd-trump-term-cannot-happen-calls-indictments-against-him-beautiful-5449091?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport

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  4. Mel
    August 8, 2023 1:02 pm

    🚨BREAKING: Cell phone video of DC officer on J6 saying “we go undercover as Antifa in the crowd”

    They’re ADMITTING it

    How many cops & federal agents were undercover that day? How many instigated violence & property destruction?

    Release the J6 tapes!
    pic.twitter.com/X6seid2IdZ

    — DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) August 8, 2023

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  6. Well, that’s done…weed eating has to wait for the battery to charge. I’m itching to pick peaches – some big ones up high starting to turn red – but I restricted myself to 2 small ones within reach w/o a ladder. They are on my window sill on the patio…not really even close to ripe! LOL – my impatience getting the best of me again!!!

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    1. we’ve got rain here.
      but i can hear a major piece of equipment running somewhere close. either they’re grading our dirt road–doubtful in the rain–it’ll turn to mud OR someone’s bailing hay or something.
      it sounds like it’s coming right up the driveway –i was expecting a tank sometime soon, but so far..nada
      jealous about your peaches!!!
      we bought a couple last week—they were delicious!!

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      1. I looked closer and there are more peaches than I originally thought…I’ve got to try one more time to save that tree….

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          1. No, it’s leaking sap all over the place, limbs are about to break off….it’s never been pruned properly, for one, and the weather here – specifically, the wind and the drought – are too much for them. Plus, IDK how to prune fruit trees – peaches grow much better further south in CO, where the elevation is higher. On top of that, these are hybrid, dwarf trees so they aren’t as hardy as normal trees.

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              1. Once I get the peaches off, I’m going to prune some of the iffiest limbs off and see what happens next spring. If it makes it, so be it.

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  7. “Illegal migrants should “f**k off back to France,” says deputy chair of UK governing party. Lee Anderson made the blunt remark after migrants complained about the conditions on the Bibby Stockholm barge being used to house asylum seekers”
    August 08, 2023
    editor: REMIX NEWS author: THOMAS BROOKE

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “If illegal migrants aren’t content with the conditions on Britain’s new migrant barges, they can “f**k off back to France,” the deputy chairman of the U.K.’s governing Conservative party has claimed. Lee Anderson, the Conservative MP for Ashfield, made the incendiary remark to the Express newspaper, in which he added: “I think people have just had enough.

    “These people come across the Channel in small boats, if they don’t like the conditions they are housed in here then they should go back to France, or better, not come at all in the first place.” Anderson, who has been a deputy chairman of the governing party since February 2023, was commenting on the ongoing migration crisis on England’s southern border, which resulted in a record 45,755 migrant crossings last year, the majority of whom subsequently claim asylum.

    His blunt remark was defended by Justice Secretary Alex Chalk, who admitted that Anderson’s language was “salty” but his point “not unreasonable.”

    “Lee Anderson expresses the righteous indignation of the British people. He does it in salty terms and that’s his style, but his indignation is well placed,” Chalk told Nick Ferrari on LBC. “People coming from a safe country… They should claim asylum in the first country (in which they arrive). It shouldn’t be an open shopping list of where you want to go,” he added. On Anderson’s remarks, the justice secretary said his Conservative colleague “expresses himself in his characteristically robust terms, but there is a lot of sense, in my respectful view, in what he says.”

    The Conservative government has been attempting to reduce a considerable backlog to the asylum process and relocate asylum seekers currently residing in hotels, at a cost of around £6 million per day to the British taxpayer, to more cost-effective accommodation including disused army bases and migrant barges.

    One such barge has now docked on the tied island of Portland in the southern English county of Dorset, and the first asylum seekers embarked on the vessel on Monday. They were greeted by a small group of pro-refugee demonstrators at the Portland dock, holding “Welcome” signs and handing out packs of toiletries. Anderson also took aim at those in support of the migrants, questioning whether they would be “welcome” in their own homes, and calling them hypocrites for supporting the housing needs of illegal migrants but not of homeless Brits across the country.”

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  8. “3 in 4 Ukrainians see Zelensky at fault for government corruption–The ongoing war is no longer an excuse not to address corruption within Ukraine’s democracy”
    August 08, 2023
    editor: REMIX NEWS author: MAGYAR HÍRLAP

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “More than three-quarters of Ukrainians believe President Volodymyr Zelensky is directly responsible for corruption within both the government and the country’s military administrations, new polling revealed. According to a survey conducted by the Foundation for Democratic Initiatives and the Kyiv International Sociological Institute, with the support of the Prague Center for Civil Society, 77.6 percent of Ukrainian respondents blame the Ukrainian leader for endemic corruption.

    “The delay in solving problems, which undermines people’s faith in victory, also affects the president’s reputation. The survey showed that 77.6 percent of citizens believe the president is directly responsible for corruption in the government and military administration,” said sociologist Petro Burkovsky, director of the Foundation for Democratic Initiatives.

    He noted “the widespread argument that the government does not have time to do everything” no longer works after 16 months of war, and is no longer an excuse for those who do nothing to combat the abuses, negligence, and incompetence and who were elected and appointed precisely to “have time to do everything, to do everything to combat it, using the powers that were extended during the state of war.”

    “In other words, officials who fail in their duties are no less dangerous of enemies at this time than Russia. And the citizens expect Volodymyr Zelensky to be determined to remove such persons from the leadership, to listen to and appoint executives who will honestly point out the problems and competently propose solutions,” Burkovsky told Hungarian-language Ukrainian news portal Karpatalja.info.

    “Therefore, the purging of territorial recruitment centers of ‘invaluable personnel’ should be the start of a countdown, not a point in the process of reforming the defense sector. In this case, the path of easy solutions should not be followed. It is assumed that the majority of citizens could support a ‘simple idea’ of directing offending military commanders to the front line. However, can we trust the weapons and the lives of soldiers to men who have cynically traded in their exemption cards? Such a decision is unlikely to be supported in combat units. But the replacement of corrupt officials with veterans will find a response in society,” concluded the political analyst.

    According to the survey, 72.9 percent of Ukrainians also support the dismissal of wounded soldiers from the armed forces, with adequate compensation to cover treatment and rehabilitation, and 46.3 percent support their voluntary transfer to military units to replace current employees.”

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  9. “Have you thought about Pence for president?” (gif)

    “I’ll take the blue one…”


    “This is Leonardo DiCaprio. Leonardo is very concerned about climate change. Even though the mega yacht he vacations on emits more carbon in a single trip than your car in your entire lifetime, he still believes your car is causing climate change.”

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  12. “RNC Combs Beach Seeking Possible Replacement For McConnell”
    POLITICS · Aug 7, 2023 · BabylonBee.com

    UNITED STATES — The Republican National Committee has been hard at work seeking a possible replacement for Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, sending teams of volunteers to the nation’s beaches in search of a viable candidate.

    The embattled seven-term senator has endured a week of criticism following an awkward moment during a live press event in which he appeared to have a stroke, and also he lost the Senate.

    “We’re grateful for Senator McConnell’s service to our country, but we believe now is the time to retire,” said a spokesman for the RNC, “In fact, we have procured a nice little habitat in a local zoo where we believe McConnell can live out his days mating with a splendid old female and eating leafy greens.”

    When asked if he agreed that now was a good time to retire, Senator McConnell began responding. We still await his response. It appears he may say something soon. His mouth is now open. Any second now…

    The RNC had set up traps along the beach by placing lettuce under cardboard boxes propped up by sticks, but at publishing time all they had captured was an old sea creature that looked eerily like Dianne Feinstein.”

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  14. Praying Medic
    @prayingmedic
    Trump attorney Christina Bobb provides insights into the electoral count on Jan 6th, 2021, that no one else has discussed.

    She says that four states (Wisconsin, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Arizona) sent letters to Congress asking for their electoral votes to be returned so they could deliberate and make sure the right slates of electors were certified by Congress.

    Article 12 of the Constitution does not prohibit this, though some claim that the electoral count act does not allow it. Bobb correctly points out that the Constitution trumps federal law.

    Trump asked Pence to honor the requests of the state legislatures and return their electoral votes. Pence refused.

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  15. same bullshit foundation for another possible indictment by smith—fundraising off claims that the election was stolen that Trump “knew” were false. disprove one case, disprove them all… what a tool. is Parlatore, Kerik’s lawyer ALLOWED to share grand jury testimony?????????
    FTA
    Special counsel Jack Smith’s probe of efforts by Donald Trump and others to subvert the 2020 election remains ongoing — with at least one interview this week that focused on fundraising and spending by Trump’s political action committee.

    Meanwhile, the grand jury that indicted Trump last week was spotted meeting Tuesday in the federal courthouse in Washington.

    In a closed-door interview on Monday with Bernard Kerik, investigators asked multiple questions about the Save America PAC’s enormous fundraising haul in the weeks between Election Day and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to Kerik’s lawyer, Tim Parlatore, who was present for the interview and shared details with POLITICO.

    “It’s a laser focus from Election Day to Jan. 6,” Parlatore said.

    The special counsel has long been thought to be scrutinizing whether Trump or his PAC violated federal laws by raising money off claims of voter fraud they knew were false. Last week’s indictment of Trump, on charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election, did not include any allegations of financial crime.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/08/jack-smith-donald-trump-pac-00110279

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  20. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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