"One scoop of raw horse flesh please—in a waffle cone."
Remember the good old days, when Neapolitan was fancy, pop corn-flavored ice cream was still considered tres bizarre and caramel with sea salt was like...whoa!? Well, those days have long melted away like so many dropped vanilla cones.
Today, the world's mad scientist ice cream makers are all about pushing the boundaries, conjuring up cold treats with liquid nitrogen and other contraptions and experimenting with wild flavors that wouldn't work on paper, let alone in a two-scoop cup (banana curry, anyone?). It's not enough to be delicious; you have to stand out from the crowd. You know, with a scoop of crocodile egg-flavored cold stuff from Sweet Spot Artisan Ice Cream in the Philippines.
In what might one day be deemed an important historical record of the food-mad times we live in, India-based Kaizen Research has scoured various food websites and publications and pulled together a list of the world's 30 strangest ice cream flavors.
Among them are such head-scratchers (or tummy-enticers, if you're open-minded) as a haggis-flavored ice cream from London's Morellis Gelato; "Eskimo" (based of reindeer, caribou and maybe even whale fat), which you can get in Juneau; and yes, raw horse flesh, available in Japan, which features "chunks of blended raw horse meat." Oh, and breast milk.
And then there are those that are just downright not-weird-at-all-delicious: Jam doughnut! Rosewater! White chocolate and rose!
Here is the full list of the world's 30 most unusual ice cream flavors:
