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The scorching weather this summer has generated a boom in ice-cream sales in France - and a colourful explosion of exotic and bizarre flavours.

Lovers of ice-cream can now eat glaces that taste of grass or are flavoured with mustard, Roquefort cheese or oysters.

Ok, maybe they haven't gone crazy, but they're certainly eating some weird crap. Grass flavored ice cream? Oyster flavor? That can't be good. Grass isn't even a food. How about rat anus and crushed glass flavor? Now doesn't that sound appetizing.

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1191882.ece

You think THAT's strange? *lol

Have a look at the Japanese take on it:

http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/10117/

Roquefort cheese

Yum! :)

Ok, maybe they haven't gone crazy, but they're certainly eating some weird crap. Grass flavored ice cream? Oyster flavor? That can't be good. Grass isn't even a food. How about rat anus and crushed glass flavor? Now doesn't that sound appetizing.

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1191882.ece

I guess you missed that revolting Harry Potter spin-off of jelly beans that taste like ear wax and other vomit-inducing flavors.

The Americans have also gone out of their tiny little colelctive mind:

Grass? Oyster? Tame as.

Try some scorpion candy or coffee regurgitated by weasels.

http://www.hotlix.com/index.html

http://www.firebox.com/?dir=firebox&action=product&pid=616

Kiwifruit icecream! :D
I'd like that.

Heh. That's nothing.

Take a look at this (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1839895.html).

I'm French, and that sounds absolutely disgusting. I can't imagine anyone here buying any.

I'll stick with coffee, chocolate, mint and various types of fruit, thank you very much.

You think THAT's strange? *lol

Have a look at the Japanese take on it:

http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/10117/

The Link's broken. But when I went to Japan, I had the most high tech ice-cream in my life! The ice-cream was more like an ice-cream bar fused with an ice-cream cone. It was square, and the outside was like the cone, and the inside had the ice-cream. This meant it wouldn't melt, and your fingers wouldn't get sticky. Truly marvelous ice-cream engineering.

Kopi Luak, or "cat shit" coffee, drives the Nipponeese wild. The Luak is a small cat-like creature that eats ripe coffee cherries right off the tree, digests the flesh but poops the beans out whole. Somehow the fermentation undergone in the animal's stomach makes the final cleaned and roasted coffee beans taste really really good. This stuff sells for $100 per pound and is woofed down by the gallon in places like Japan and Sumatra. These guys can quaf cat ka-ka all they like, fricking wierdos.

The Link's broken. But when I went to Japan, I had the most high tech ice-cream in my life! The ice-cream was more like an ice-cream bar fused with an ice-cream cone. It was square, and the outside was like the cone, and the inside had the ice-cream. This meant it wouldn't melt, and your fingers wouldn't get sticky. Truly marvelous ice-cream engineering.

The link comes up ok for me... it's a link to "raw horseflesh" flavoured ice cream

The Americans have also gone out of their tiny little colelctive mind:

Grass? Oyster? Tame as.

Try some scorpion candy or coffee regurgitated by weasels.

http://www.hotlix.com/index.html

http://www.firebox.com/?dir=firebox&action=product&pid=616
I dont understand.:confused: Do you eat the bugs?

Hehe, I think you guys would appreciate this website:

http://wwwl.bad-candy.com

They taste snacks from all over the world which are God awful. These one Mexican snacks have 398% of your daily sodium intake.

Ok, maybe they haven't gone crazy, but they're certainly eating some weird crap. Grass flavored ice cream? Oyster flavor? That can't be good. Grass isn't even a food. How about rat anus and crushed glass flavor? Now doesn't that sound appetizing.

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1191882.ece
The French have always been strange. You're just now finding this out?? :eek:

I guess you missed that revolting Harry Potter spin-off of jelly beans that taste like ear wax and other vomit-inducing flavors.

Heh heh, I remember those. We didn't have any ear wax flavours though, did we? They didn't go that far- the worst was horseradish or something.

The French have always been strange. You're just now finding this out?? :eek:
Somebody's got to post something that isn't about Lebanon.

Heh. That's nothing.

Take a look at this (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1839895.html).
LMAO! WTF, over? :D

Somebody's got to post something that isn't about Lebanon.
Heh! Good move, dude! :D

The French have always been strange. You're just now finding this out?? :eek:

lol cultural differences lol

I guess you missed that revolting Harry Potter spin-off of jelly beans that taste like ear wax and other vomit-inducing flavors.
What about Jessica-Alba flavored candy? No? Angelina Jolie? Who?? :D

lol cultural differences lol
I would add the modifier "extreme" before that. :D

I dont understand.:confused: Do you eat the bugs?

Speaking personally and as a vegan, no, but I believe the idea is that one does.

Speaking personally and as a vegan, no, but I believe the idea is that one does.
Vegans can't eat bugs? Hmmm. :D

What about Jessica-Alba flavored candy? No? Angelina Jolie? Who?? :D

I'm surprised nobody's ever thought of that.

But I'm not at all surprised you're the first to think of it. ;)

Vegans can't eat bugs? Hmmm. :D

We can, we just choose not to and make allowances for a small amount of inevitable bug consumption which will occur due to unintentional contamination.

The Link's broken. But when I went to Japan, I had the most high tech ice-cream in my life! The ice-cream was more like an ice-cream bar fused with an ice-cream cone. It was square, and the outside was like the cone, and the inside had the ice-cream. This meant it wouldn't melt, and your fingers wouldn't get sticky. Truly marvelous ice-cream engineering.

It works for me as well.

But try these. (It's where that bloger got 'em from, and he doesn't appear to have the latest one.)

The Wacky World of Japanese Ice Cream (http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/photospecials/graph/020701ice/1.html)


The Wackier World of Japanese Ice Cream (http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/photospecials/graph/040701ice/1.html)

The Wackest World of Japanese Ice Cream (http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/photospecials/graph/060528icecream/)


As far as the ice cream bar, are you thinking of the Choko Monaka Jumbo (http://www.thetestmarketevolution.com/FoodBev/Food/Monaka.html)?
http://www.morinaga.co.jp/english/operations/img/frozen_2.jpg
http://www.thetestmarketevolution.com/FoodBev/Food/Images/Monaka2.jpg

I must have been here too long as that's not at all amazing to me....

I'm surprised nobody's ever thought of that.

But I'm not at all surprised you're the first to think of it. ;)
LMAO! :D

An online acquaintance of mine who's deeply into the whole Domination/submission thing, told me that she's so ... um ... generous with her fluids that her "Master" made ice cubes from it. :D

The Japanese do eat some strange things, take a look at this menu I photographed in Fukushima. The whole bbq'ed sparrow was good, and very reasonable at 90 yen, didn't have the courage to try uterus :D

http://s97.photobucket.com/albums/l214/fartsniffage/?action=view&current=Picture064.jpg&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch1

The Japanese do eat some strange things, take a look at this menu I photographed in Fukushima. The whole bbq'ed sparrow was good, and very reasonable at 90 yen, didn't have the courage to try uterus :D

http://s97.photobucket.com/albums/l214/fartsniffage/?action=view&current=Picture064.jpg&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch1
According to Russian serial killer/cannibal Andrei Chikatilo, uterus has a "springy" texture. I don't recall him being quoted on the flavor though.

What about Jessica-Alba flavored candy? No? Angelina Jolie? Who?? :D

There's a German company that markets "Vulva Original" perfume, that is made directly from vaginal juices. It apparently smells just like...

According to Russian serial killer/cannibal Andrei Chikatilo, uterus has a "springy" texture. I don't recall him being quoted on the flavor though.

I hoped they weren't serving human uterus in that place :eek:

You never know with those wacky Japanese.

Here's what the sparrow looked like though;

http://s97.photobucket.com/albums/l214/fartsniffage/?action=view&current=Picture067.jpg&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch1

Sorry its a crappy picture but I was drunk at the time.

There's a German company that markets "Vulva Original" perfume, that is made directly from vaginal juices. It apparently smells just like...

There is??? :eek:

How come I don't know about this???

I hoped they weren't serving human uterus in that place :eek:

You never know with those wacky Japanese.

Here's what the sparrow looked like though;

http://s97.photobucket.com/albums/l214/fartsniffage/?action=view&current=Picture067.jpg&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch1

Sorry its a crappy picture but I was drunk at the time.

Yeah, that's not the best pic to convey suzume. Unfortunately I don't have any of my own, and can't find any righ off the bat. The glaring outstanding feature is the great big eye ball staring back at you....

But that's not hardly the strangest thing here. Fermented salted fish is (at least for me) a lot more out there.

Yeah, that's not the best pic to convey suzume. Unfortunately I don't have any of my own, and can't find any righ off the bat. The glaring outstanding feature is the great big eye ball staring back at you....

But that's not hardly the strangest thing here. Fermented salted fish is (at least for me) a lot more out there.

I wasn't overly keen on that dried fish stuff, I can't remember it's name but it was really thin and looked like it was alive when it move in the air currents of the room.

How did they make the iceream taste of grass? Did they have cows as test subjects. You can get chicken flavoured crisps. Why not ice cream?

How did they make the iceream taste of grass? Did they have cows as test subjects. You can get chicken flavoured crisps. Why not ice cream?

They released ice cream flavoured crisps in the uk. It didn't go too well.

You think THAT's strange? *lol

Have a look at the Japanese take on it:

http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/10117/
Is it bad that I think the garlic ice cream sounds promising. Perhaps with a little chocolate sauce... mm...

So does the sesame, soybean and kelp ice cream. The silk ice cream sounds interesting too, I don't know about tasty.

And the Stout ice cream, red wine ice cream and liquor ice creams sound very promising. As do the tulip and cherry blossom ones...

Ok, I'm a weirdo. (or just adventurous with food... although I draw the line at the meat flavours)

There's a German company that markets "Vulva Original" perfume, that is made directly from vaginal juices. It apparently smells just like...
LMAO! Uh ... nevermind! :D

I wasn't overly keen on that dried fish stuff, I can't remember it's name but it was really thin and looked like it was alive when it move in the air currents of the room.

Katsuobushi - shaved dried bonito. I like to call it fish ghosts. ;)

And Dakini, I think the most intriguing flavor is the "Finland" flavored ice cream.

Heh heh, I remember those. We didn't have any ear wax flavours though, did we? They didn't go that far- the worst was horseradish or something.

Nope. Jelly Belly makes them, and they made ear wax, vomit, and boogers along with grass, sardines, dirt and a bunch of others.

Google Bertie Botts jelly beans.

Nope. Jelly Belly makes them, and they made ear wax, vomit, and boogers along with grass, sardines, dirt and a bunch of others.

Google Bertie Botts jelly beans.

http://jellybelly.com/Cultures/en-US/Fun/Flavor+Guides/Bertie+Botts+Flavor+Guide.htm

:eek:

OK. The USA now officially makes the grossest foodstuff I on name value alone - vomit flavor jelly beans.

Oooh, a gross food thread!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu

There's a German company that markets "Vulva Original" perfume, that is made directly from vaginal juices. It apparently smells just like...
?
http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/cat.gif

[I can't believe it's a German product!!! :eek::(:rolleyes:]

http://jellybelly.com/Cultures/en-US/Fun/Flavor+Guides/Bertie+Botts+Flavor+Guide.htm

:eek:

OK. The USA now officially makes the grossest foodstuff I on name value alone - vomit flavor jelly beans.


Recently, I watched a documentary on History Channel about snack foods. The way they got the vomit flavored jelly bean was NOT by trying to create one.

They tried to do pepperoni pizza some years back and it failed the taste test miserably. Testers likened it to -- you see where I'm going, don't you?

Anyhow, with the first Harry Potter movie coming out, they unretired the failed flavor and relabeled it as vomit.

(OMG, I really am a repository for utterly useless knowledge!) :eek:

Well, as long as they have that stuff the French won't starve. :rolleyes:

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http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/cat.gif

[I can't believe it's a German product!!! :eek::(:rolleyes:]

I can't post the link, because that would be a violation of the Terms of Service.