Not hot enough for ice cream? Well, that’s too bad, as it’s never too cold for a Slurpee here! (it could be if it got down to -20 degrees C, but so far it never has, IIRC) Then again, my siblings and (to a lesser extent) I are known for drinking Slurpees all the time, almost no matter what the weather.
I almost forgot some other flavors at those gelato places:
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My older brother lives for tapioca pudding. He probably eats it daily. About 10 years ago his wife gave him an ice cream maker for Christmas. Yep, first batch, tapioca ice cream. It was really just vanilla ice cream with the cooked tapioca balls added. It actually tasted pretty good. The nest day I was over and he offered me some more tapioca ice cream, only this time it had a chance to freeze solid. The tapioca balls were like frozen balls of glass. And frozen tapioca tastes real nasty for some reason. He hasn’t made it since.
Max and Mina’s, in Queens (New York City), makes a bunch of unusual ice cream flavors, which they put out in rotation next to the more regular stuff like chocolate chip mint. The one time I was there, I had the Tea-and-Honey flavor, which was a pale brown and tasted pretty much like honey, which was disappointing. I also had a spoonful of the Campfire Delight ice cream, which was baked bean flavored. It was much less bad than you’d think it would be. I think if I’d had a whole scoop, I’d have gotten used to it and actually liked it.
I think they also make corn, lox-and-cream-cheese, horseradish, and beer-and-nuts, among others, but those weren’t available when I was there, so I can’t report on them.