Jul20

on ice cream day, if you happen to be in Venezuela.

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Coromoto Ice Cream Shop

Shop the world’s largest number of ice cream flavors, ranging from delightful to downright bizarre

Trout, mushrooms in wine, sardines—these are just three of the 900 ice cream flavors enjoyed at the Heladeria Coromoto ice cream parlor in Merida, Venezuela. The shop offers the world’s largest selection of ice cream flavors, and there are seemingly no limits to the variety of tastes for the most adventurous of palettes, all of them all-natural. “If you eat the spaghetti with cheese ice cream, it has real spaghetti and cheese in it,” says manager, Jose Ramiraz.

After years of working for large ice cream companies, Portuguese immigrant, Manuel Da Silva Oliveira realized he could expand the horizons of ice cream, infusing it with all kinds of eclectic and exotic flavors, and opened Heladeria Coromoto in 1980.

His first attempt was avocado, and he wasted over 50kg of ice cream trying to perfect it. Now, it’s a local favorite, and can be paired with a number of flavors such as sweetcorn or black bean, as well as mango or coconut to bring out its sweetness.

The shop serves locals and tourists from all over. There are about 60 flavors offered in the shop at any given time and the flavors are changed according to the season. Among the bizarre selections, one can find more traditional flavors like chocolate or vanilla.

Being in Venezuela, there are also plenty made with rum, such as rum-and-raisin. Some odd-named flavors include British Airways, I’m Sorry, Darling, and the blue-hued Viagra Hope, which is made of honey and pollen, but shares the bright, sky blue shade of its namesake.

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‘you can pour melted ice cream on regular ice cream.

it’s like a sauce!’

-chris pratt

 

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source credit: Gastro Obscura

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  14. I’ve never been a big ice cream fan. I did love maple walnut in NY but can’t find it in Colorado. Ditto Braum’s cherries, pecans, and cream, but there’s no Braum’s in Colorado.

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  16. Can you imagine having an ice cream that tastes like fish? YUK! But I’m sure there are worse flavors..I just can’t think of one right now! :)) Chris

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  17. Sadly, I’d still order dark chocolate, possibly with brownies in it.. I don’t want cheese and noodles in my ice cream but I imagine a lot of people would love it and it’s very exciting to have a lot of choices, and new flavors. So interesting.

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  19. I had absolutely no idea Venezuela is taking over the ice cream world with ridiculous variety. I’d like to think I’d be adventurous and try something I can’t find anywhere else…but I lean into comfort and would probably chicken out.

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  29. Good for you for publicizing this. My wife is from the Philippines, and after she came to the United States she was surprised to find we don’t treat avocado as a fruit and don’t use it to flavor sweet things like ice cream the way they do over there.

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