Ice Cream shop with 860 flavours

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Not the sort of place to go to if you are indecisive!

You might imagine that the shop selling the largest number of ice-cream flavours in the world would be in Italy or perhaps the US, but in fact it is in the Venezuelan city of Merida

At first glance, the counters of brightly coloured ice cream look perfectly ordinary.

Close up, the flavours are anything but.

The selection includes chilli, tomato, gherkin, onion, mushrooms in wine, garlic, and cream of crab.

Coromoto sells about 60 flavours on any given day, but changes the flavours according to the seasons.

On one wall, a list of its specialities is made out of engraved wooden slats.

Besides the standard options like chocolate and rum-and-raisin, there are plenty of exotic fruits: guava, papaya, mango and passion fruit.

There are several vile-sounding flavours among the 860 as well: eggs, macaroni cheese and sardines-in-brandy being a few of the more bizarre examples.

And there are a lot of oddly named ones too like British Airways, Andean Kisses and I'm Sorry, Darling.

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It's a bit different to Ghirardellis.

 

[disney_princess_85]

How bizarre! I wonder if anyone on here has visited?

 

[Muscateer]

Not sure about savoury ice cream

Nikki and I have just been to the Cream & Fudge Factory for some delish ice-cream, mine was strawberry and coconut with chopped up mars bar and Nikki had chocolate and cookie dough with a brownie mixed in. Yum yum

 

[mandymouse]

Mmm, I like the sound of Mango and Passionfruit, but I don't like the idea of savoury ice-cream

 

[PoppyAnna]

Bizarre!
Perhaps thats where Heston Blumenthal gets his recipe ideas from!

 

[tennisfan]

Can't say many of the flavours appeal to me. I wonder if they sell much of the bizarre flavours

 

[natalielongstaff]

Can't say many of the flavours appeal to me.

no nor me !!

 

[cannp123165]

Wow - sounds amazing, but some of the flavours don't sound very nice!

 

[Lizzybear]

Wow, i'm intrigued by the concept of mac n cheese ice-cream!

 

[Susie]

And my DH would still have vanilla

 

[wayneg]

And my DH would still have vanilla

So would DW, she is a chocoholic but still doesn't like choc icecream, only vanilla.
I loved being in Italy and trying all the different flavours, I prefer something with a kick like lemon

 

[MuxtonMiley]

mmmm, sounds like my kind of place. Wonder how long it would take to try all of them. Well the nice sounding ones anyway.....why did anyone ever think of sardines and brandy flavour???? Not like you'd try that anyway let alone in icecream!!