A shop in Portugal plans to start selling ice cream in flavours such as shrimp, cod, tuna and grilled sardines when it opens next month, Lusa news agency reported on Thursday.
The Coromoto store in the southern fishing port and canning centre of Portimao, located 300km south of Lisbon, will offer 60 exotic flavours alongside traditional options such as chocolate and vanilla, its owner told the agency.
”Anything that you can eat or drink can be transformed into an ice cream,” said Manuel Oliveira, who said he and his daughter will make all the flavoured ice creams without using any chemicals.
Among the other ice creams to be served are several alcohol-based flavours such as Baileys Irish Cream, French fruit-and-herb liqueur Pisang Ambon, and Curacao, a liqueur made from the laraha fruit, a variety of orange.
Oliveira (52) said he inherited his passion for ice cream from his father, also named Manuel Oliveira, who earned a place in the Guinness World Records for dreaming up the largest number of flavours of the popular dessert.
His father’s shop in the Venezuelan city of Merida serves more than 700 ice-cream flavours, including spaghetti, trout and garlic.
Ice-cream makers across Europe are introducing more and more unusual flavours and premium brands in order to hold on to their market shares in the face of stagnant sales in recent years. — Sapa-AFP