Such a beautiful day in Port Elizabeth today, and as I was walking to the studio I saw some kids eating ice-cream, and I thought that would be perfect right now!
So when I got into work I had alook at some interesting flavours of ice-cream, and this interesting artcile popped up about bird flavoured ice-cream!
It's from the dailymail.co.uk
We've seen some odd flavours of ice cream recently.
There's been olive oil from Ginger Comfort Emorium, watercress delight from Purbeck Ice Cream, and even a brussel sprout offering from London restaurant Vivat Bacchus.
But Britain has been beaten once again in the food stakes by the Japanese.
A few months ago Femail reported one Tokyo restaurant was serving a menu seasoned with fresh dirt.
And now, Kobe's Torimi (Bird) Cafe is serving a line of three ice creams modelled on breeds of small bird - java sparrow, parakeet and cockatiel.
Served at the Osaka Small Bird Expo in the Hanshin Department Store, Torimi Cafe sees visitors flock to be surrounded by 36 pet birds in their unique space.
The cafe say they use all natural ingredients which cost 'a little more than normal ice cream ingredients' to make their wacky dairy treats.
They were using the expo as a test run to see if the ice cream would sell well enough to recoup the costs, according to Rocket News 24.
f successful these ice creams would be sold at their shop in Kobe and through delivery.
Torimi Cafe initially announced: 'Once in your mouth, the aroma of a parakeet would spread intensely.'
If you're wondering how exactly the cafe found out what these cute birds taste like... read on for a run down of the three flavours.
Java Sparrow
The java sparrow is a small chubby bird which feeds on grains and seeds. In that spirit, you are treated to vanilla ice cream with grains mixed in.
As the ice cream melts in your mouth you might feel something squishy rolling around, just like a java sparrow on your tongue. That would be the marshmallows hidden inside.
Parakeet
Parakeets are known to be more lively and active birds and as such the mellow taste of the java sparrow ice cream is jazzed up with some honey and apple.
There are still some grains mixed in, but to a lesser extent.
As Torimi Cafe put it, 'it’s like eating some vanilla ice cream in one hand and then taking a whiff of a parakeet in your other hand.'
Cockatiel
Cockatiel ice cream remains lively with the taste of honey-apple, but rather than grains, is mixed with larger pumpkin and sunflower seeds.
The effect is a rumbling and bouncy taste which, in the words of Torimi Cafe, is like 'when you’re sleeping with your mouth open and your cockatiel runs over your face and gets its leg in your mouth.'
... sounds very strange! Other strange flavours of ice-cream that I have heard of are: beer flavoured ice-cream. cheddar cheese, pizza, avocado, green tea, garlic... and that's a tip off the ice-berg.
