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Ice Cream?

5/21/2009

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So my friend emailed me to ask if I had tried any unusual ice cream flavors since being here in Seoul.  Well, my answer was 'of course I have', remembering the ice cream I got when I first moved here, oh what was it.... BLACK RICE!  What was I thinking when I bought that?  It was like eating something cold that almost resembled ice cream, but tasted of overcooked rice, smashed, with hard pieces of, well....did your mom ever cook rice and not cook it all the way through?  My mom did, and I hated it.  This is what the rice chunks were like in this ice cream.  Rice that was not cooked all the way through and oh by the way, it was black, which just added to the 'not so palatable' aspect of it.   Then I started thinking about the ice cream Boy 2 got at Baskin' Robbins a while back it had POP ROCKS in it.   My friend that ask this question has another friend looking for 'unusual' flavors for some sort of article....I'm not exactly sure, I didn’t' get all the details. This got me thinking about you guys, and how you would probably like to know this information as well.  My kids were more than game to help with the research, although when it came down to it, they just ordered your basic chocolate and vanilla.  The things I found here might just blow your mind, and might not leave your gut feeling too well either.

Here is a picture of the Black Rice ice cream:  You can't really see the 'chunks' in it, but I promise you, they are there.


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OK, the 'pop rock' ice cream.  My kids love this.  We got it at Baskin Robbins...maybe you have it in the US, I don't know. I remember Boy 2 came home telling me about it a few months ago when Hubby took him out for ice cream, so when I was out the other day and saw a Baskin Robbins, I had to go in and try it, God help me, what I will do to help a friend, of a friend.  This ice cream is one of the nastiest things I have put in my mouth in a long time.   On the other hand our kids dig it!!!

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 Did you take a good look at it?  Notice all the blue specks in it?  Boy 1 told his Grammy (she is visiting from the states right now), 'there are hard things in my ice-cream, like rocks and they are popping'. He is 3.   I think the flavors here are cotton candy, some very sweet vanilla and strawberry jam.  Although it is very patriotic, I don't know if I will be serving it at our 4th of July party.

Here is another flavor worth talking about.  Green Tea and Red Beans.  My first taste, I didn't think it was too bad, I mean considering I don't like tea. Then had Hubby try it....he about spit it on the floor, saying "what the &#^$....that taste like fish"!  Personally, I didn't think it tasted like fish, I thought it was more along the lines of dirt.


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As most of you know, I like wine.  White wine is one of my favorite drinks.  Give me a nice glass Sauvignon Blanc and I am good to go.  So my question to you is..."how bad can an ice cream made with white wine be"?  The answer...bad.  This ice cream on first taste was interesting; there was a slight hint of wine...not too bad.  On the second taste, it was different; I started tasting the cream mixed with the wine.  The third taste...well let's just say there should not have been a third taste.  Wine and cream, those are two things that you should never mix together - just think about it this way, you drink a bottle of wine, then chug a glass of milk.  Not a good outcome.
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The last ice cream I am going to talk to you about is Cheese ice cream.  I really thought this was going to be good.  I love cheese and I have had some really great desserts made with cheese.  Ice cream is NOT one of them.  Again, I was fooled at first...I don't know what it is about ice cream here.  The first bite always seems a little promising, and then there is the second bite.  Honestly, this ice cream wasn't too bad; I was kind of digging it. (Maybe that is because I had just had Green Tea & Red Beans and White Wine ice cream, so in comparison to that this was good?)  That is until I stopped eating it.  After a minute or so I got this really bad taste in my mouth, after another minute, it tasted like I had eaten a piece of moldy cheese.  We had a 10 minute drive home and I really needed a drink of some sort & there was nothing in my car!  Ten minutes of moldy cheese taste in your mouth, there is nothing else quite like it.
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Next time I go out for ice cream I think I will stick to a nice bowl of Blue Bell Rocky Road - thank you very much!
4 Comments
kathie
5/20/2009 11:12:12 pm

I cannot read this all now, I just finished a breakfast pizza, this is not sounding good.

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kathie
5/21/2009 04:21:35 am

OK, it's afternoon I just finished reading the blog. Glad you made it home.

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kathie
5/21/2009 04:24:45 am

PS, You said boy 1 for boy 3, only trying to help so people will not get confused. You did state his age.

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Staci
5/25/2009 06:14:54 am

What a good friend!! I hope my other friend reads this blog and finds the info helpful.... What a trooper!! I'll treat you to some Marble Slab or Cold Stone when you return to the states...

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