Mmmm... astronaut flavor!

[avram]

From the land where anything can be made in seafood flavors: The Wacky World of Japanese Ice Cream!

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[mamishka.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh, I dunno. Way back when cool ice cream flavors like M&M ice cream and the like were first being invented and sold in stores, ice cream parlors started to make the cool kid flavors too. Around 1980 I think, maybe even earlier than that, the local ice cream parlor on Martha's Vineyard, known as Mad Martha's, created a most disturbing ice cream flavor.

Quahog.

For those who don't know, that's a type of clam. O.O

I never had the guts to try it myself. Don't know if they still make it or not. Still, they beat out the Japanese by a few years it seems.

[avram]

That's weirder than the potato chip ice cream. Have I mentioned that?

When I was in high school, there was a custom ice cream trend -- shops opened up with machines that would mix things into ice cream on the spot, so customers could order custom flavors. Such a shop opened up at the place where my friends and I waited for the bus to take us back home from school, so we started going there fairly regularly for a few months. We discovered that the machine had a little of the last order still in it each time it made an order, so we would keep track of what had just been made and order stuff that we thought would go well with it, effectively getting another ingredient for free, which is probably a lesson about the system-gaming tendencies of bright high school students.

You could also bring in your own ingredients. One of my friends brought in a kiwi fruit, but the resulting ice cream didn't live up to our expectations.

Anyway, the place was next to a bar. The clerk at the ice cream place told us that one day a drunk had come in from the bar with a bag of potato chips and ordered potato chip ice cream. I wish there was a funny ending to the story, because I feel outclassed by the quahog.