It's actually not bad.
Posted on 04/20/2006 8:59:07 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
A SHOP in Portugal plans to start selling ice cream in flavours like shrimp, cod, tuna and grilled sardines when it opens next month.
The "Coromoto" store in the southern fishing port and canning centre of Portimao, located 300 kilometres south of Lisbon, will offer a total of 60 exotic flavours alongside traditional options like chocolate and vanilla, its owner told Lusa news agency today.
"Anything that you can eat or drink can be transformed into an ice cream," said Manuel Oliveira, who said he and his daughter would make all the flavoured ice creams without using any chemicals.
Among the other ice creams to be served are several alcohol-based flavours like Baileys Irish Cream, French fruit and herb liqueur Pisang Ambon, and Curacao, a liqueur made from the laraha fruit, a variety of orange.
Mr Oliveira, 52, said he inherited his passion for ice cream from his father, also named Manuel Oliveira, who earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records for dreaming up the largest number of flavours of the popular dessert.
His father's shop in the Venezuelan city of Merida serves over 700 ice cream flavours, including spaghetti, trout and garlic.
Ice cream makers across Europe are introducing more and more unusual flavours and premium brands in order to hold on to their market shares in the face of stagnant sales in recent years.
Hey, it could happen !
It's actually not bad.
I want beer ice cream....
I like sardines and I’m pretty sure I would like sardine ice cream.
The Japanese have been doing this for years. Can’t say I’d find it appealing. I did try the garlic ice cream at Gilroy one year, it wasn’t all that bad but I wouldn’t go out of my way to buy it again.
Still no signs of my favorite combo. The strawberry sundae with pickles and sardines on top.
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