New flavours of ice-cream

[fluffymark]

Not dead. Still reading this, you know, just been a little busy to actually post anything.

So I’m now eating Strawberry and balsamic vinegar ice-cream, and it’s totally delicious, and thought you should all know.

What’s everyone’s favourite strangest ice-cream flavour? *wonders*

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[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

several_bees made garlic ice-cream at Midsummer, and it was quite nice though I wouldn't have wanted lots of it.

[fluffymark]

Garlic ice-cream sounds wonderful. I like Garlic. Any chance she could be pursuaded to make some for Saturday? *hopes*

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

What was the one I had in the Pembury, rose sorbet? That was lovely.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

I haven't tried the rose sorbet, but the lavender one is very nice!

There's a little cafe in Camden that does rose milkshakes. :-)

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

It's like cold squidgier Turkish delight. NOM.

[fluffymark]

I must try it sometime!

Why do people always think Turkish delight means Rose flavour? (or possibly lemon flavour). Real Turkish delight is pistachio flavoured.

Which has just got me thinking of pistachio ice-cream, which I'm sure is sold in the local Tescos. Mmmmmmmm.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Because we're poor, and get our Turkish Delight from the corner shop where it is rose flavoured, not Turkey where it is pistachio flavoured.

Pistachio ice cream is in the Asian section of the freezer, for some reason.

[fluffymark]

Whereabouts is this milkshake cafe? I'm on the hunt for exciting milkshakes too. When recently in Southampton I chanced on After-Eight Mint and Parma Violet milkshake, which got my tastebuds very confused, but was nice once over the initial taste/aftertaste clash.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

It's on the right-hand-side of the road just past the bridge as you go past the Stables market. They do flavoured coffees and excellent food in addition to milkshakes; ewtikins and I had lunch there once, and I had coffee with duranorak, ashbet and cavalorn a couple of years ago. It's one of my favourite places to take people. ;-)

[fluffymark]

You'll have to take me there sometime! :)

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Did you create your own or go to See? My parents' freezer was devoid of strawberry ice-cream, so yesterday I ended up eating Cream of Cornish ice-cream with (Norfolk) strawberries and balsamic vinger of Modena. :)

[fluffymark]

I made my own, with Carte D'or Strawberry ice-cream topped with Modena balsamic vinegar. And ate the lot enthusiastically. Mmmmmm. I'm very tempted to go to See and check how their version compares with mine. Maybe we should try it out next time you're in London, yes? :)

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a good plan. :) Maybe there is an Open House place to visit nearby, so that we can just somehow be passing See and have to try the ice-cream?

[fluffymark]

Good idea! Even if there isn't, I think we should sneak off there and try the ice-cream anyway! :)

[the-elyan.livejournal.com]

I lack for odd ice-creams to have tried, though I have also heard that Garlic Ice-cream is rather splendid.

Of what I do have, I like Honeycomb ice-cream very much.

We shall pass over the telephone and green mouse ice-cream in silence, I think...

[fluffymark]

I've got a telephone near the freezer, but I've not yet located any green mice. Or found Delirium for that matter *sigh*.

[bluesbell.livejournal.com]

There's a Viking restaurant here that serves tar-flavoured ice cream. I haven't tried it, but some of my friends love it.

[fluffymark]

Tar? As in the black sticky stuff that gets used on roads? What does that taste like I wonder?

[bluesbell.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar#Wood_tar

I eat tar flavoured candy sometimes :)

[fluffymark]

Ah, wood tar. Still sounds a bit odd. You crazy Finnish people. :P

[strongtrousers.livejournal.com]

This is the second strangely flavoured ice cream post I've read recently. The first, courtesy of vardebedian, is this (http://www.who-sucks.com/food/101-frightening-ice-cream-flavors-from-around-the-world).

Raw horseflesh. Yum.

[fluffymark]

I never claimed to be Original, darling! Imitation is the highest form of flattery, yes? :P

That post scares me. Viagra flavoured ice-cream? WHY?

I've never tried Raw horseflesh ice-cream, alas, but I did once have Raw horseflesh for dessert while in Switzerland. They served cheese fondue with meat to dip into it. It's only afterwards they told us what the meat was!

[taimatsu]

I haven't had much really weird icecream as I am squeamish, but G&Ds in Oxford sometimes do a yoghurt and honey icecream which is sheer bliss. SO CREAMY.

[fluffymark]

Mmmmm! Soudns yummy! :)

Ignore the neigh-sayers, says I

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

I've had tuna sorbet; does that count?

Also, there's a shop in Madrid, somewhere south of Playa del Sol, selling sausage ice cream - made with chunks those industrial-strength Chorizo sausages that hang up in racks like riot batons in spanish delicatessens. I didn't have any: I was with someone, and pretending to be normal.

Re: Ignore the neigh-sayers, says I

[fluffymark]

tuna sorbet sounds a bit fishy. Less impressive than squid, but still strange. Now I'm thinking about fishy things, someone must surely have made caviar ice-cream. Which I'm now wanting to try.

Maybe the person you were with in Madrid was wanting the sausage ice-cream too, and also pretending to be normal? You may have missed out.

One of the reasons I prefer travelling alone is so I can try out really bizarre things without terrifying everyone around me.

[pinguhateseng.livejournal.com]

where on earth did you get hold of such an ice-cream?

[fluffymark]

Um. Well, I went to Tescos and bought Strawberry Ice-cream. And, um, then I poured balsamic vinegar over it. La!

[pinguhateseng.livejournal.com]

And what gave you *that* idea?

[fluffymark]

The blame lies with Time Out. And probably the lovely squirmelia too. There's apparently a place out near Paddington Station that does Strawberry and Balsamic vinegar ice-cream.

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

i had black sesame seed icecream in Japan. it was nice. not as nice as the blood orange sorbet though.

[fluffymark]

Japan seems to take the lead in Strange Ice-cream. Try the Wasabi flavour sometime? :)

[megamole.livejournal.com]

The Ben+Jerry's vanilla-with-salty-pretzels-and-peanut-butter one.

[fluffymark]

Sounds delicious, although I wouldn't consider that very strange.

[atreic.livejournal.com]

Trinity do Brown Bread icecream, which is wonderful

[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

Singapura also do that, along with an Earl Grey flavour and a Marmalade one.

[fluffymark]

Fantastic! It's the full english ice-cream breakfast! :P

[fluffymark]

I was trying to get my head around brown bread ice-cream. I mean, I really like bread, even on its own, but I'm not sure the flavour would work anywhere else. I am probably wrong in these things, and will seek out and try brown bread ice-cream.

[redcountess]

I'm afraid I'm not one for odd tasting icecream, although I liked the lavender sorbet at the Pembury when I tried it (however a little goes a long way).

[fluffymark]

I must tyr out all the Pembury ice-cream flavours sometime. I'm usually stuffed full after eating a meal there, so have never managed to have any of their ice-cream!

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

The great joy of Livejournal is that I am surrounded by people who are even weirder than I am.

Or better still, just as weird but weird in different ways. This makes every journey an adventure.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I have been trying to find quotes from Amaryllis Night and Day, since I always think about bus-stops if I think about balsamic vinegar for too long.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

‘It wasn’t your dream, it was mine. I brought you into it because I tuned in to you. I wasn’t sure I’d connected, though, until you turned up at the Balsamic.’

‘You call it “the Balsamic” as if it’s a place you’re very familiar with.’

‘Too true.’

‘You often wait there for the bus to Finsey-Obay?’

She folded her arms across her chest and hunched her shoulders as if she were cold. ‘More often than I’d like,’ she said, looking past me.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

'A bus was coming. No numbers on it, only the destination, FINSEY-OBAY. Not a place I’d heard of. The bus was a tall and delicate thing of bamboo and rice paper, sheets of yellow, orange and pink pasted together and candlelit from within like a Japanese lantern. It was much bigger than a double-decker, towering so high above me that even when I tilted my head back I couldn’t see the top of it.'

[fluffymark]

From the sound of it, I'm going to have to read this book now. It sounds very dreamlike. :)

[ruthi.livejournal.com]

sorbets with alcoholic-drinks, I've had pink grapefruit and vermouth (I think it was vermouth. It was a while ago), in .il
and Blood orange and vodka, at the Italian restaurant in Walthamstow village.

The one I had not tried: bluish tinged ice-cream labelled 'smerf' in Poland. I now wish I had tried it.

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