According to wiki, green tea ice cream has been available in the US in the late 70s in the Japanese establishments. It would be interesting to find out when the first green tea ice cream was created in Japan.
So, barry had this delicacy in the early 70s. hm. What a spoiled brat. Our US States children didn't get a chance to experience this ice cream but he did. IF he did at all.
I’ve been searching for a date when green tea first went on sale in Japan but have come up empty so far ( I’m in Japan BTW ) . I’ll ask at school today . Perhaps some of the older teachers know .
Here in the SF Bay Area, I recall that Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream (Edy’s to those of you east of the Mississippi) was the first to introduce green tea ice cream, and that may have been in the 1970s, certainly no earlier.
A grocery store in San Francisco’s Japantown carries Oreo cookie bars that are green tea-flavored, and I had a couple the other day. I’m no great fan of green tea, but I had to give them a try.