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Seafood Ice-Cream and other strange brews...Big in Japan

June 09, 2006 by serge the concierge

Did you ever crave a taste of Octopus (Taco Aisu)or Crab (Kani Aisu) ice cream, well Japan has it and more as illustrated in The wacky world of Japanese Ice Cream by the Mainichi Daily News.
Bert Christensen offers more tantalizing choices such as Cactus ice cream (see picture) on his Weird and Different Recipes site. Yahoo News found also that you can Beat the heat -- with rattlesnake ice cream and informs us that all these ice creams are either Vanilla or Chocolate based.

Posted on June 09, 2006 in Consumer Products, Food and Drink, Serge the Concierge, Travel | Permalink | Comments (0)

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