Vegetable flavoured ice cream, oh no!

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Celeb chef Gordon Ramsay's wife, Tana, is developing a range of vegetable ice creams to encourage kids to each more 'healthily' :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4170000/newsid_4179200/4179282.stm

What would be the best flavour, d'you reckon? Brussel sprout crunch? Broccoli surprise?

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 06:56 (twenty years ago)

I've heard of garlic ice cream and avocado ice cream and purple yam ice cream but ew you try it first.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 07:03 (twenty years ago)

is vanilla not a vegetable?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 07:23 (twenty years ago)

in fact i have never heard of a meat flavoured ice cream

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 07:24 (twenty years ago)

and now i crave it

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 07:24 (twenty years ago)

"Child obesity is a huge problem today and one of the best ways to counter this is to make ~~vegetables more attractive to kids~~them eat more ice creams," Tana said

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 07:26 (twenty years ago)

They come in broccoli, carrot, pea, lettuce, yellow pepper and tomato flavours, and are mixed other things. Tana did it to "make vegetables more attractive to kids," she said.

Whatever next, English grammar ice cream to make good English grammar more attractive to people who write BBC websites?

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 07:27 (twenty years ago)

english grandma ice cream to make garu g's gran more attractive to people who have constipation

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 07:34 (twenty years ago)

I tried some garlic ice cream at the Garlic Festival on the Isle of Wight last year. And garlic beer. They were quite revolting.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 07:37 (twenty years ago)

http://www.alexmilla.net/fotografias_weblog/5-12-04/DSCF2635_dr_slump.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 07:38 (twenty years ago)

Carrot juice is good, so carrot ice cream doesn't sound too bad.

― naus (Robert T), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

Savoury ice creams were very popular in Victorian Times according to Heston Blumenthal who makes a few in The Fat Duck.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

in fact i have never heard of a meat flavoured ice cream

Weird Japanese ice creams to thread! Wasabi, whale, sea urchin ice cream.

― nathalie's pocket revolution (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

Green tea ice cream! Very popular in Japan. Fairly revolting.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 10:13 (twenty years ago)

Green tea Mochi is amazing, as is red bean. At my work we sell a green tea gelato, which I'm tempted to try. It's pretty popular.

― naus (Robert T), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

mmm whale ice cream

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

There's a place here that serves lobster ice cream. Nobody I know has tried it. I resent even knowing about it.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

I would try that.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

I don't understand how this would make vegetables more palatable to kids, it sounds vile. Maybe the idea is to traumatize the children so much that they grow sick at the thought of even eating ice cream ever again.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

isnt vegetable ice cream just as bad for you as regular ice cream!? WTF?!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Maybe the argument could be made that the ice cream would have more vitamins and minerals, but it's a pretty shaky argument.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

i think the idea is to lure them in and go "oooh look this is icecream and because all icecreams taste nice you should eat it"

and because kids are stupid, they'd eat it and think yay ice cream = tasty.. i'll have some more of that broccoli pls. and then they become vegetarians 4 life.

this is similar to how paedophiles groom children for sex on internet chat rooms. like "aw *huggles*" "omg huggles are nice" "yeah, come to my house for heavy huggles" "okay"

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

green tea ice cream is awesome. red bean is edible, but I find it a little 'earthy'

― The Original Jimmy Mod: Kind Warrior (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

I like green tea ice cream personally. It's a bitter-sweet taste that makes you feel really good.

― dave-o, Sunday, 23 April 2006 09:11 (twenty years ago)

green tomato ice cream is best. carrot sorbet is great, too.

― toby (tsg20), Sunday, 23 April 2006 12:36 (twenty years ago)

Green tea ice cream is my favorite flavor. I've never thought it tasted at all bitter. It tastes light and grassy.

Avocado ice cream and shakes are pretty awesome.

Living in the Vietnamese neighborhood, I've had a chance to try a few wacky flavors of ice cream.

Red bean is absolutely dericious too!

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Sunday, 23 April 2006 13:27 (twenty years ago)

avocado ice cream @ the chinatown ice cream factory is so v good!

http://www.chinatownicecreamfactory.com/images/dragon_yellowbg.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 23 April 2006 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Jesse said everything I was going to say! Green tea is my favorite ice cream flavor of them all.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 23 April 2006 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, green tea is fantastic. Red bean is fine. I haven't had avocado, it seems like an unnecessary fat-on-fat showdown, but it might be fine.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 23 April 2006 14:55 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

I just tried chocolate wasabi ice cream. I'm confused.

― Tape Store, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

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