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7 Weirdest Ice Cream Flavors

Creative geniuses across the country keep inventing odd ice cream flavor combinations to tempt (or shock) our taste buds.

from Reader's Digest | June/July 2010
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Flavor: Cold Sweat

Where to get it: Sunni Sky’s Homemade Ice Cream, Angier, North Carolina
What's in it: Ice cream base, hot sauces, and pequín, habanero, and Thai chili peppers (store owners ask you to sign a waiver before you eat this!)

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Flavor: Breakfast Bash

Where to get it: Max & Mina’s Homemade Ice Cream, Queens, New York
What's in it: Maple-walnut ice cream, pancake and French toast pieces, confectioners’ sugar

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Flavor: Akutaq

Where to get it: Throughout Alaska
What's in it: Whipped animal fat, berries, sugar, and boiled fish

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Flavor: Lobster

Where to get it: Ben & Bill’s Chocolate Emporium, Bar Harbor, Maine
What's in it: Butter-flavored ice cream with lobster chunks

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Flavor: Bacon

Where to get it: The Ice Cream Store, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
What's in it: African vanilla ice cream with bacon bits

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Flavor: Guinness

Where to get it: Amy’s Ice Creams, Austin, Houston, and San Antonio, Texas
What's in it: Amy’s sweet-cream mix with Guinness beer

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Flavor: Mexican Chocolate

Where to get it: Cafe Pasqual’s, Santa Fe, New Mexico
What's in it: Chocolate ice cream, Kahlúa, chile pequín flakes, cinnamon, almonds, and instant coffee

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