Tuna ice-cream, anyone?
2006-04-21 08:50
Lisbon - 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 a total of 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 would make all the flavoured ice-creams without using any chemicals.
Among the other ice-creams to be served are several alcohol-based flavours like Baileys Irish Cream, French fruit and herb liquer Pisang Ambon, and Curacao, a liquer 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 Guiness Book of Records for dreaming up the largest number of flavours of the popular dessert.
His father's shop in the Venezuelan city of Merida serves over 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