Traditional Ice Cream Flavors Americans Have Never Heard Of 

I'm in Germany and one of my favorite ice cream flavors is woodruff, which is a traditional flavor here and has been for a long time. Woodruff (also called "Master of the Woods") is a herb harvested in early spring that contains a lot of coumarin. The taste is a little hard to describe; it's sort of like a mix of pistachio, marzipan and with a very sweet and pleasant herbal note.

This may not qualify as unusual, but one ice cream flavor (or, rather flavor combination) that I can't find anymore is Spumoni. I think of it as a grownup version of Neapolitan. While Neapolitan is chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry, Spumoni is chocolate, pistachio, and cherry. Spumoni ice cream was often a treat in my house when I was a kid back i the 1960's, but I have not been able to find it for a long time.

In the Peruvian version of Neapolitan ice cream, lucuma replaces chocolate, not strawberry. The ice cream in 2:06 is called "tricolor" (three-colored) because the distinct colors it has due to the vanilla, strawberry and lucuma used.

Left vs right is Twix, not Kit Kat.

I love rose flavored ice cream and candy. I don't understand why it's not more popular in the U.S. You can find rose water, rose flavored syrup, or rose ice cream at Indian supermarkets.

Candy store I used to run had rose petal ice cream. Because how it’s made, it has a lot less sugar and fat than traditional icecream. Makes a decent sorbet too

Worth mentioning are some flavors that were popular in the west in the past but are now largely forgotten, like parmesan cheese or cucumber ice cream.

In Indonesia, we got avocado ice cream, durian ice cream, black sticky rice ice cream, spicy fruit salad (rujak buah) ice cream, mung bean ice cream, and so on, and so on...

I am a big fan of pistachio ice cream, so I would be willing to try the Persian ice cream with rose water and pistachio.

These traditional flavors help us go back in history and appreciate the roots or origins of these food items. Thanks for this video. It's very useful.

Cayenne vanilla ice cream made locally in my city was my weirdest ice cream experience. It was spicy, but impossible to stop eating.

I love tamarindo/tamarind. In Puerto Rico we make frozen treats called limbel or make juice from it. I prefer it a little more tart than sweet but however you like it, it's delicious 😋.

When the Gilroy Garlic Festival was still a thing, garlic ice cream was one of the most popular items.

Back in the 1960's we would put instant powdered coffee on our vanilla homemade ice cream but I really loved when mom made peppermint stick or grandma made burnt sugar.

In Canada, there is an icecream called Tiger tail. It’s orange and liquorice flavoured. I love it!

I was seriously waiting for Tiger Tail from Canada to show up! Orange and licorice swirled together. I’ve had to make it myself to try it and it is sooooo good. Really wish it was in the US!

Tea flavored ice creams are great! Avocado, durian, ube, tamarind, basil seed, cardamom, custard apple, fresh ginger, rose water, saffron, cheese, black sesame, red bean, are all excellent ice crean flavours!

Tamarind is legit. I had it on nearly every sweet when I lived in Mexico.

Being a Filipino, it pains me to hear halo-halo pronounced as hey-low hey-low.

So glad Philippines ube ice cream was included!! That stuff is awesome! But Halo-Halo is pronounced "haa·low haa·low" Also they have bamboo ice cream in Korea and that stuff is amazing!!!

I miss Superman ice cream. I grew up in Michigan, and can't find it out here in AZ: cherry, vanilla and blue moon ice cream!

My favorite flavor at Baskin-Robbins is called "Winter White Chocolate." White chocolate ice cream (the only time I can tolerate white chocolate), fudge ribbon, and chocolate covered cherries. Unfortunately, it's only available in December.

One ice cream flavor that used to be often available in the USA is black walnut. I haven't seen it for years now. I'm living in mid-Florida.

I've lived in the UK my entire life and i've never even heard of bread ice cream before. I assume it's more of a regional thing.

Here in Finland, one of the most popular ice cream flavours is Salmiakki(salt of ammonia + licorice). My personal favourite is Rum raisin flavour, it's just too good! 🇫🇮👌🏽

Hello from Denmark. Rye bread icecream has a long history here. We have documentation that it was servet at a royal banquet in the 18th century.

Great video. きな粉 "kinako" is "yellow flour" not "yellow flower", though; literally "yellow powder".

Can you guys do a video on snow cones/ save ice/ raspados? It’s so cool that a lot of different cultures have them

I’m sure it’s been said but Twix are Left vs Right, not KitKat. I’m surprised that mistake made it through.

Hang on, I've spent 57 years in Ireland and I've NEVER encountered Brown Bread flavored ice cream. Who told you that fantasy?

I'm a big fan of your channel. I appreciate the you promoting my show. 🙂 This is an interesting video. I didn't know about a lot of these flavors. I'll have to look for them.

In New Zealand, passion fruit ice cream, Black Doris plum ice cream and Hokey Pokey ice cream; the Hokey Pokey was kind of the same as American Butter Brickle ice cream (which seems to have gone out of fashion; it was my late mother's favorite).

I was introduced to Rocky Road (chocolate ice-cream, marshmallow swirls, almonds or walnuts) sometime in the late 1980s, and its variant, Tin Roof Sundae (chocolate, marshmallow, chocolate-coated peanuts) a couple years later. Amazing. When we moved back to England in 2000, I went without Rocky Road for years, and then they finally introduced it . . . but they got it WRONG. British "Rocky Road" is chocolate ice-cream and marshmallow swirls, but with shortbread chunks, and sometimes cherries. I mean, it's DELICIOUS, but it's also WRONG. They need to re-name it in the UK. Because if people from the UK who're allergic to nuts go to the USA and think US Rocky Road would be safe to eat, they're going to be in trouble. "Country Lane" would be a good name for the British version, I think.

Tamarind is abundant here in the Philippines but no ice cream makers ever tried making an ice cream with that one fruit before.

That black sesame sounds delightful!

From Canada: Tiger Tiger. Orange ice cream with ribbons of black licorice. It's hard to find these days, but it used to be everywhere.

You forgot one Durian. It smells like manure but is super sweet and very popular in Vietnam, And Cambodia. Good video.

Love, love, LOVE black sesame ice cream; I love it by itself, and paired with green tea ice cream. I think I need a trip to our local Asian market now - it's been way too long since I've had these!

I'm surprised you didn't touch on "blue moon" ice cream. It's a US midwestern favorite that rarely shows up on the coasts.

7:00 Kinako (黄な粉) means yellow FLOUR, not flower..

In turkey we have Tahini ice cream which I love

Nooo ... Salmonberries are called that because they LOOK like salmon roe..

Very interesting video!!! I kinda wanna try all these different flavors.

Tamarind is found also in India and the rest of S. Asia. It is not just south America. E. Asia has it too. Basically, all of Asia has it.

Not to forget Waldmeister (sweet woodruff) from Germany.

Ube ice cream is one of my favourite flavours, we also have corn and cheese ice cream in the Philippines

Black sesame is amazing!

My favorite ice cream, which I've only ever encountered back where I grew up in California is roasted almond ice cream. Not just ice cream with almond bits in it, but ice cream that is almond flavored itself. One of the ice cream places there even had a sundae they called the "Black and Tan," which was almond ice cream, vanilla ice cream, hot fudge, and caramel sauce. 10/10, would absolutely recommend.

I'm a Greek living in Sweden. Just a few hours ago, my daughter was telling me that she booked a journey to Greece where she plans to devour, among other things, mastic ice cream daily.

I’ve never wanted something more then black sesame ice cream.

I love black sesame ice cream so much- lots of people are worried about trying it because of the color- they shouldn't be. Especially if they love toasty or nutty flavors.

Some of these are making their way into US ice creams, in my experience. I've seen ube, rose and black sesame.

I'm surprised at the omission of "checkerberry" (wintergreen) ice cream, nowadays mostly only available in Pennsylvania but once upon a time popular over a wider area, and pinol ice cream -- flavored with a mixture of toasted barley flour, brown sugar (panela), and spices, as can be found in Ecuador and Peru. Also, kulfi isn't one specific flavor of ice cream but a style of ice cream, and can be found in a variety of flavors, not just one mixture of various flavors as you implied. I was hoping to see Italian stracciatella (the chocolate-ribbon variety, not the savory egg-drop soup!) gelato make the list as well. Fun video though, and I learned about several flavors I'd never heard of!

Suggestions: Doughnuts and dougnut like treats from around the world, i.e., churros from Mexico. Sweet treats found at fairs and carnivals, including those that are regional.

They sell Ube flavored Mochi at Walmart here. It was tasty but I preferred the Guava. Also, please buy yourself some Cardamom. It has the most beautiful, sweet tropical flavor! It's amazing in anything sweet.

There was a place in the next town over that had a lovely black sesame & roasted wakame ice cream on their menu.

Ube is my favorite ice cream flavor. We used to have a store that would sell it, and it even had little chunks of sweetened Ube in it. It's an ice cream flavor that needs to be everywhere. Also Halo-halo is so good.

In New Zealand we had a flavour called goody goody gumdrop, (bubble gum flavoured ice cream with gum drops), which they have just discontinued.

Here in Denton Texas we have a old fashioned ice cream parlor called beth Marie's and they make their own and they have flavors like apple pumpkin spice ice cream..and I think there's a soda pop ice cream pretty cool

I LOVE black licorice ice cream!! Hard to find. We used to stop a lot in Vermilion Alberta at an ice cream shop that had it. The local 4H used to make it as part of their ice creams they sold at the state fair. But alas, no more

She’s back…yay

Wow! Some of these actually sound good! Tamarind especially!

Growing up in a half Filipino family exposed me to ube in the form of a cake roll and I LOOOOOOVE it! I really wanna try ube ice cream now

I buy tamarind candy, and Jarritos from time to time, it's definitely worth a try.

Oh, I definitely gotta try black sesame ice cream. I'll make my own nirigoma if I have to

" ... it's also littered with ..." Maaaaaybe not the best term to use when referring to food.

That Ube purple color is interesting. Is it similar in flavor to a sweet potato? It would make in interesting sweet potato pie being so purple.

Isn't left vs right the Twix debate? Also, I've seen many varieties of Kit Kat: Mint, Key Lime, Strawberry...

When I was a kid in the 1990`s I used to put cacao powder on my vanilla ice cream

Tamirind and rose water are my favorites. I used to get tamarind treats in Mexico, and there was a restaurant in Louisiana that made delicious rose water iced tea. Yummy

Come to SE Asia - particularly Malaysia - for Durian ice cream. Durian is the undisputed King of Fruit in SE Asia.

I loved that there were so many different flavours included. But you missed salty liquorice ice cream, which is often eaten in Scandinavia, especially Denmark. My absolut fave 😋

When I was a kid and teen, at least one ice cream company had a Lemon Custard or Lemon flavor. Instead of very tart, it did hae a custard sweet flavor with the lemon. It was great, but I haven't been able to find it in the 2000's and after. I miss it! There's a blueberry cheesecake ice cream, which I think is a store brand, which I like, and I've had a pumpkin spice ice cream (holiday season store brand) that was also good. -- Also, I personally dislike truffles, so truffle anything, including ice cream, is out.

Mastic and rose are a clasic flavour combination to put together in the same cone. And I also think pistachio works well with them. Yummyyy

Yeah as someone who is from the uk. That isn’t ice cream from the uk…. Also Ireland is its own country out with the uk., don’t get that twisted. Very ignorant of you. we don’t bread ice cream in uk thanks

My favorite is corn ice cream from Puerto Rico! We usually eat it with cinnamon on top.

I want to try the salmiaki ice cream that is popular in Scandinavia.

In the Philippines you will also find Durian, Mangosteen, Chili, Avocado, Calamansi, Cheese, Tilapia Fish, Bacon, Roast pig (Lechon), Red Horse (dark beer brand), Ostrich & Crocodile flavour, Green Mango & Salted shrimp, Salted Caramel, Cookies & Cream, to name a few of the more unusual flavours & of course coconut is a popular flavouring.

My husband is from the Caribbean and his favorite flavor is peanut ice cream. Not peanut butter, just peanut.

You mentioned ube ice cream, but in that area it's also not uncommon to have bits of shredded cheddar cheese in ube ice cream (I've also seen just. Cheese flavored ice cream in the same brand)

You forgot the fruit of durian from the southeast Asia region in the Philippines durian flavor ice cream are a favorite in the down South.

I like the flavor of tamarind.A old friend who was from Mexico gave me my first tamarind soda.Ive loved the flavor ever since

6:00 Carrot-juice? The couple of times I've tried Pesian ice-cream, it was either in sandwich-form between wafers, or served in a cup with pomegranates and/or a sort-of vermicelli noodles. Next time I see it somewhere, I'll have to ask about carrot-juice.

can 100% assure you bread is not a common flavour in Ireland, or even a flavour ive heard of, we do have good soda bread though

I just came here to complain that Ben and Jerrys used to have the best flavor of ice cream it was oatmeal raisin cookie and it was awesome with chunks of cookie in it but apparently I’m not allowed to have nice things 😑😑😑🙄

Flavored Kit Kats are not Left/Right, those are Twix. The flavors of all candy bars we have in US are milk, dark, white chocolates, and cookies and cream.

7:34 - that’s Twix, not KitKat

ohh tamarind Jaritos, gotta try that one!

Philippines has a cheese-flavored ice cream too

Please do The History of Krispy Kreme Donuts

It's pronounced "Lu-cu-máh" In Chile lucuma ice cream is as popular as chocolate in the US. If you ever get a chance, I highly recommend it.

the ice cream from Iran sounded pretty good, pistachio, rose petal, and saffron (must be expensive with saffron) but I would not want it served in carrot juice

They started making mint dark chocolate Kit-Kats now, and they're 100% better than original

Bread, flavored ice cream is one thing, but serving ice cream on a bun is another! I noticed this in Thailand and Vietnam instead of cones they use the likely healthier bread

Im not Filipino, but the world is missing out on Ube

Mmmmmm, our local Gelato shop makes an ube one. So good. One of my favourite non-traditional flavours is maple bacon.

Red beans ice cream was once popular in Puerto Rico also coconut

Orange is simple but still an underrated ice cream flavor.

A+ video! Those are some unique flavors!

Oooo unique flavours 😊