Tuesday, 28 January 2014

Strange Flavors Of Ice Cream For Your Consideration

By Marquerite Velasquez


According to the International Dairy Foods Association, about 1.5 billion gallons of ice cream and other frozen desserts are produced each year. It is definitely true that Americans love ice cream, and vanilla is the top flavor year after year. However, while vanilla and flavors such as mint chip and chocolate are among the most favored flavors, there are a few places where you can purchase some truly unique varieties of ice cream. Here are a few flavors that you might not have heard of before.

Obviously, we have heard some wacky and wild names for ice cream flavors. Ben and Jerry's has corned the market on funky monikers for their ice cream, starting with Cherry Garcia. However, their ice cream is stilled filled with fairly traditional ice cream ingredients and flavorings such as bits of cookies, cherries, chunks of chocolates and frozen pieces of bananas.

An interesting flavor option is garlic flavored ice cream, although this may not be a top option of anyone yet. However, it is interesting to note that garlic ice cream has been served at the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival in California, and also the garlic festival in Saugerties, in New York. There are also some restaurants offering this unique flavored ice cream treat, like The Stinking Rose in San Francisco.

Bacon is also one which many people want to put in their treats like donuts and also ice cream. One can see bacon ice cream recipes on the internet, if one makes a search, and the popular chef Heston Blumenthal has featured a bacon-and-egg ice cream in his Michelin-star restaurant, The Fat Duck. Others have also their own flavored bacon ice creams, or their own versions using prosciutto rather than the American-style bacon.

Avocado is not something we typically associate with sweet food, but it is used in desserts in many countries around the world. Avocado ice cream can be found here and there, and many famous chefs such as Alton Brown and Rick Bayless have recipes for this unique cold treat.

If you are craving a fantastic ice cream treat, the Culver City ice cream shop YoKuMon can be your destination, and they offer all of the traditional flavors most of us enjoy. For just $2, you can enjoy their specialty, a gourmet ice cream sandwich. For this treat, the ice cream is placed between two homemade cookies, which the staff at YoKuMon makes fresh throughout the day. The cookies are freshly baked throughout the day and come in eight different flavors and you can pair them up with any flavor of ice cream. YoKuMon also sells shakes, sundaes or even Hawaiian-style shave ice at their shop in Culver City. YoKuMon is definitely the place to go if you are searching for ice cream in the Los Angeles area.




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