Okay, many of you with little children have probably seen the movie Elmo’s Adventures in Grouchland.
Do you remember that scene where the I Scream vendor is selling Anchovie Swirl?
Yikes! Yuck! Yetch!
If we make gelato every day for the next decade perhaps the fancy Italian gelato maker my husband bought will pay for itself.
In an attempt to keep the concept fresh he’s been making some very interesting flavors of gelato.
I don’t think he’ll be trying to make the flavor you’re suggesting. The raw materials seem a bit difficult to obtain.
The Japanese have always been good at importing ideas and adapting them.
I’m not sure about pit-viper ice cream - it’s probably from Okinawa, and the food down there is unique to say the least.
Some unusual ice cream flavours that do work are:
Green tea (my favourite and not really unusual)
Wasabi (delicious)
Sesame (it is grey coloured, but very nice)
Most of these unusual ice creams are just as unusual to Japanese people.
Green tea ice cream is sold in most supermarkets, but wasabi is only available in tourists spots where wasabi is a local product.
Tourist organisations like to exploit local specialities by making novelty foods.
Mukade
I’m disappointed-- I misread the thread title as Groucholand and was envisioning a Marx Brothers theme park…
My wife used to make icecream, and experiment with all kinds of fruit - having picky kids put a stop to that. She used to do a wonderful Pineapple icecream. She made that many times. We both liked it, and lots of our visitors did too.
The one that sticks in my mind though, was Guava icecream. I was the only one who liked that. It smelled like tomcat. One day she had it defrosting on top of the fridge. One of the (female) cats came in, looked puzzled and hunted around the kitchen for ten minutes. I reckon it smelled like tomcat to the cats, too.