# Help me develop "weird" ice cream recipes
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-develop-weird-ice-cream-recipes/307464
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 8, 2005, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-develop-weird-ice-cream-recipes/307464 "2005-06-08T15:22:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-develop-weird-ice-cream-recipes/307464/41 "2005-06-08T20:29:20Z")
> [@tdn](#):
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> Good suggestions, all. I’m also thinking … black licorice.
Baskin-Robbins had this one when I was kid. Good stuff but discontinued sometime during the past 30 years.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-develop-weird-ice-cream-recipes/307464/42 "2005-06-08T20:32:11Z")
> [@Lennon Lives](#):
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> I remember having black licorice ice cream when I was a kid (many, many years ago). IIRC, it was white not black but tasted like licorice. I remember liking it but you know that kids will eat most everything.
The one Baskin-Robbins had was definitely black, or at least an extremely dark blue.
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### Author:  [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-develop-weird-ice-cream-recipes/307464/43 "2005-06-08T20:42:13Z")
Yes, they have done squid ink ice cream on Iron Chef, as well as gourd shaving ice cream and several others.
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### Author:  [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-develop-weird-ice-cream-recipes/307464/44 "2005-06-08T20:48:41Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#):
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> Friends of mine have had good luck with Guinness Stout.
A restaurant near my apartment does this, it’s fantastic.
I haven’t read the whole thread, so I may be repeating, but…garlic? I’ve heard of it, but never had it. I’ve also had green tea ice cream, and ginger as well, at a Japanese restaurant, they were good. What about chai tea? I bet that would make some tasty ice cream.
Different liquors would be good as well, especially those that go well in creamy drinks, like Kahlua or Irish Cream. Different flavors of schnapps or brandies might be fun as well.
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### Author:  [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2005, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-develop-weird-ice-cream-recipes/307464/45 "2005-06-08T20:51:52Z")
Garlic is pretty good. I’ve had it at the Garlic Festival. Very sweet, believe it or not. The “garlicky” taste is just an aftertaste.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-develop-weird-ice-cream-recipes/307464/46 "2005-06-08T20:56:06Z")
> [@badbadrubberpiggy](#):
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> Different liquors would be good as well, especially those that go well in creamy drinks, like Kahlua or Irish Cream. Different flavors of schnapps or brandies might be fun as well.
I’ve seen a Kahlua Mudslide Ice Cream somewhere. I seem to recall a Bailey’s Irish Cream one as well.
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### Author:  [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-develop-weird-ice-cream-recipes/307464/47 "2005-06-08T21:07:51Z")
There’s a place in Chinatown in NYC that has green tea ice cream. It’s really good.
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-develop-weird-ice-cream-recipes/307464/48 "2005-06-08T21:13:54Z")
A great place in Mexico called Teposnieves (from a town in Morelos state called Tepotzlan) has many unusual flavors, such as
**figs with mezcal**
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2005, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-develop-weird-ice-cream-recipes/307464/49 "2005-06-08T21:23:47Z")
> [@](#):
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> Have you ever spent days and days and days making up flavors of ice cream that no one’s ever eaten before? Like chicken and telephone ice cream?
> …
> Green mouse ice cream was the worst. I didn’t like that at all.
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> Delirium, in Brief Lives
🙂🆒
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### Author:  [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2005, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-develop-weird-ice-cream-recipes/307464/50 "2005-06-08T21:23:54Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#):
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> I remember an ice cream pie that had oreo cookie crust and peppermint ice cream. It was bright pink and decorated with brachs hard, swirly peppermint candies. I loved it.
My mother makes this. You crush the dark chocolate cookies (yes, like Oreo cookies, but you can buy just the plain cookies) for the crust. You use peppermint stick ice cream and let it get a little soft, but not melted. You swirl in chocolate syrup (not Hershey’s, but the thick stuff), add it to the pie shell, then put it back in the freezer. If the ice cream doesn’t have peppermint candy bits already in it, you can add crushed peppermint candies when you add the chocolate syrup.
It’s wonderful.
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### Author:  [@Ultraviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ultraviolet)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2005, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-develop-weird-ice-cream-recipes/307464/51 "2005-06-08T21:25:26Z")
> [@tdn](#):
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> When I was a kid a place I went had a flavor called Tigger Tigger. It was peanut butter flavored with veins of black licorice. I loved it.
The “Tiger Tiger” ice cream from my childhood was orange-flavoured ice cream with black licorice streaks. It used to be my favourite. I haven’t seen it for years, though.
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### Author:  [@Imasquare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imasquare)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2005, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-develop-weird-ice-cream-recipes/307464/52 "2005-06-08T23:20:53Z")
Liver Chunk - with real chunks of liver
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### Author:  [@YWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YWalker)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-develop-weird-ice-cream-recipes/307464/53 "2005-06-09T00:45:29Z")
> [@tdn](#):
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> Soda (Coke or Dr. Pepper)
Cheerwine is a regional cherry-flavored soft drink. (It rocks.) You can buy Cheerwine ice cream.
A Chapel Hill restaurant serves honeysuckle sorbet for a brief period each spring.
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### Author:  [@boofuu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boofuu)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2005, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-develop-weird-ice-cream-recipes/307464/54 "2005-06-09T01:12:44Z")
> [@YWalker](#):
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> Cheerwine is a regional cherry-flavored soft drink. (It rocks.) You can buy Cheerwine ice cream.
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> A Chapel Hill restaurant serves honeysuckle sorbet for a brief period each spring.
Oh, which restaurant? I have to look out for this. Honeysuckle sounds great
I was surprised I did not see a link to [these odd ice cream flavors.](http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/japano/0207/ice-cream/1.html) Truly… inspired, some of these.
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### Author:  [@cstamets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cstamets)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-develop-weird-ice-cream-recipes/307464/55 "2005-06-09T01:25:23Z")
Some of the [flavors](http://www.denisesicecream.com/flavors.html) at my favorite ice cream place are a little different, including the aforementioned Bialey’s and GUsiness flavors.
Baskin-Robbins used to make a peanut butter banana ice cream. I haven’t seen it there for years, maybe even decades, but I don’t go there often anymore.
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### Author:  [@cstamets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cstamets)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-develop-weird-ice-cream-recipes/307464/56 "2005-06-09T01:28:01Z")
> [@cstamets](#):
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> Bialey’s and GUsiness flavors.
I haven’t learned how to operate the new keyboard yet…
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### Author:  [@wheelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheelie)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-develop-weird-ice-cream-recipes/307464/57 "2005-06-09T01:42:57Z")
> [@boofuu](#):
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> Oh, which restaurant? I have to look out for this. Honeysuckle sounds great
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> I was surprised I did not see a link to [these odd ice cream flavors.](http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/japano/0207/ice-cream/1.html) Truly… inspired, some of these.
Dammit! Beat me to it.
Raw horsemeat ice cream? Think I’ll stick with Blue Bell myself!
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### Author:  [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RancidYakButterTeaParty)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-develop-weird-ice-cream-recipes/307464/58 "2005-06-09T01:47:35Z")
> [@cstamets](#):
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> Some of the [flavors](http://www.denisesicecream.com/flavors.html) at my favorite ice cream place are a little different, including the aforementioned Bialey’s and GUsiness flavors.
> Baskin-Robbins used to make a peanut butter banana ice cream. I haven’t seen it there for years, maybe even decades, but I don’t go there often anymore.
cstamets,
I am also a fan of Denise’s. Have you been to Jenni’s in the North Market? Similar, with fewer offerings–but they are more experimental.
Also, if you are a huge fan of ice cream like me, you must try Handel’s in Pickerington and Tom’s Ice Cream Bowl in Zanesville.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2005, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-develop-weird-ice-cream-recipes/307464/59 "2005-06-09T03:33:38Z")
I didn’t read the thread, so I’m sorry if this is a repeat.
At a birthday party as a kid, the guys mom called us in from playing and served us lunch. She said dessert is coming and brought out spaggetti!
We all freaked!
It was vanilla ice-cream, put thru (something) that made it look like spaggetti, then covered with strawberry sauce.
It was awsome and it was rememberable. Is that even a word? What I mean is that 30 year later, it sticks in my mind. (Thank You, Mrs. Mehyring!) And I know I spelled spaghetti wrong all the way thru this post. But I drink and don’t want to go back to correct it.
Damn. It would have been less key-storkes to fix it.
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### Author:  [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2005, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-develop-weird-ice-cream-recipes/307464/60 "2005-06-09T03:45:49Z")
> [@boofuu](#):
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> Oh, which restaurant? I have to look out for this. Honeysuckle sounds great
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> I was surprised I did not see a link to [these odd ice cream flavors.](http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/japano/0207/ice-cream/1.html) Truly… inspired, some of these.
I’ll see that link, and [raise it.](http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/photospecials/0406/ice-cream04/00.html)
For starters, Horseflesh ice cream. It don’t stop there.
And…I’ve personally seen Avacado ice cream in a local asian food store. How 'bout that?
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