Does Fish and Chip Ice Cream Go Too Far?

Published on Wednesday, June 16, 2010, by Sophie Brickman / Edit Post

What have we come to, when bacon-flavored sweets no longer prompt even a raised eyebrow? Thankfully, there are still savory-sweet frontiers to push and provocateurs willing to push them: UK-based ice cream producer Frederick's Dairies has unveiled a fish and chip ice cream. It might go well in a sundae with raw horse-flesh ice cream.

A step too far? Here's what the masters of the realm of frontier-pushing have come up with:

  • Heston Blumenthal's bacon and egg ice cream
  • Homaro Cantu's Kentucky fried chicken ice cream
  • Ferran Adria's foie gras ice cream, and his delectable Parmesan ice cream
  • Wylie Dufresne's ice cream bagel (an everything bagel with cream cheese and lox, in ice cream form)
  • Thomas Keller's classy tomato sorbet
  • Grant Achatz's applewood ice cream (made by steeping smoked sawdust in milk)

    • What's the weirdest savory ice cream flavor you've come across lately?

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    • Re: oyster ice cream: Methinks ol' Dolly was spending MUCH TOO MUCH TIME in the kitchen smoking the oregano. Now we know why hubby James was away so much in Philly, writing the Constitution. Anything to avoid that time after dinner, on his knees praying at the porcelain alter.

    • First Lady Dolly Madison was famous for serving ice cream at White House socials, and I believe there's still a commercial brand sold under that name. What's lees widely known is that her favorite ice cream flavor was oyster.

    • I tried gorgonzola ice cream in South Africa. If I had it more, I could acquire a taste for it.

    • @fayehess, ever had gefilte fish? ;) there are a lot of fish recipes (most often salmon) that involve honey, brown sugar or maple syrup - usually in the form of a glaze.

    • Hey in Mexico we have Mole Ice cream for a long time now... Avocado is another popular "uncommon" choice

    • if you break down the ingredients, the cream isn't bad with the fish, egg is fine with the fish, but sugar? who wants sugar with their fish?

    • I have never seen any of these (middle america, sigh).
      What the heck? I have been under the impression that these are not sweet ice creams. Am I wrong? These ice cream flavors sound all right to me as a non-sweet food, but really... SWEET garlic ice cream? Tell me it ain't so! The bacon & egg I can see being good, but the fish and chips, served w/ malt vinegar & lemon wedges? O God No.

    • Corn ice cream can be pretty good, as can cheese ice cream. Garlic ice cream is pretty common. I had some snap pea sorbet the other day that was good. I've had cucumber dill ice cream that was surprisingly okay. Olive oil ice cream is almost a cliche in Bay Area restaurants these days, and herb flavors are common.

    • Here in the Philippines, cheese ice cream is a common ice cream flavor (you can usually buy it off the streets). I love the little bits of cheese in it :)

    • Several years ago...garlic ice cream at the Saugerties(NY) Garlic Festival usually the last weekend in sept.