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Weird Tasted Ice Cream; Chili Ice Cream, Onion Ice Cream, Egg Ice Cream, Sardine Ice Cream, Crab Ice Cream, and Meat Ice Cream
You might imagine a store that sells ice cream with a kind of feeling in the world are in Italy or in the United States, but it was in Merida, a city in Venezuela its name is Coromoto store.
Neon lights outside that said “Guinness Book of Records” pink one unique sign of the store, but once it became clear the door open another store from another. Inside there is a refrigerator filled with ice cream looks bright and tempting to eat. Flavor of ice cream sold as chili, tomatoes, onions, mushrooms in wine, garlic and cream of crab. Coromoto founded in 1980 by an immigrant from Portugal, Manuel da Silva Oliveira. Owners do not often show up and now the store is managed by Jose Ramirez.
According to season
Jose was clearly visible as manager of an ice cream shop. Friendly man aged 40 years when found wearing a white shirt and purple and black mustache. “Oliveira tired of working for a large ice cream company,” said Jose, “and decided he could make an interesting flavor of ice cream.”
The first experiment is the Avocado. “To get a proper sense of hard work, because the avocado is very rich in flavor,” said Jose. “Oliveira remove approximately 50 kg of ice cream to experiment to get the perfect taste.” Coromoto sold about 60 tastes every day, but change the flavor of ice cream in accordance with the seasons. In addition to the standard taste like chocolate ice cream and rum and raisins, lots of exotic fruit flavors such as guava, papaya, mango and passion fruit type.
Some other flavors are included in the 860 types of ice cream flavor is: eggs, macaroni and cheese and sardines, are examples of a strange flavor of ice cream. And also there are many strange names taste like British Airways, the Andean Kisses and I’m Sorry, Darling. One of the tastes; Viagra Hope, is like a bright blue Viagra pills. The natural ingredients to make this ice cream: Honey and all natural: honey and pollen.
“Different people like different things,” said store manager.
Meat Ice Cream
What is the special ice cream for the shop? Jose said “pabellon criollo” – the traditional Venezuelan foods made from meat, rice, plantains, cheese and black beans, which imitated by Coromoto to flavor ice cream. Jose gets a scoop of ice cream of every flavor, and it was really like meat ice cream, sold in Coromoto.
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