Soy sauce-flavoured ice cream launches in Japan

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A Japanese company has launched soy sauce-flavoured ice cream.

The invention comes from a collaboration between Hirota, a confectioner, and Yamani Soy Sauce Co, according to The Daily Telegraph.

Kunihiko Shirokawa of Hirota stated: "It's a mixture of soy sauce and ice cream, producing a well-balanced salty yet sweet ice cream which is perfect for the summer.

"We are planning another product for the autumn."

Soy sauce-flavoured ice cream puffs are being sold for 150 yen (£1.23 / $1.92). Ice cream with cone costs 250 yen (£2.05 / $3.19).

A percentage of profits from the concoction will be donated to a project aimed at revitalising Rikuzentakata, a city in Japan that was effectively destroyed by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

Other unusual ice cream flavours to have been sold around the world include venison, breast milk, squid ink, sweet potato, ox tongue and sweetcorn.

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Mannosuke

Will it outrank kimchi ice cream!?

Boomx2Brian

This is one flavor I can do without.

simplysona

Breast milk?...soy sauce?...what's next sweet n sour sweat?  

MrPower

dafaq Japan...

Never cease to amaze me...

Muso

That doesn't sound tasty.

kandybites

mmmmm..., sweet n salty!

id try it but leave out the strong smell of soy sauce. lol!

sweetfantasy09

i can't even take wasabi ice cream.. i don't think i can take this either. lol

ReplayMVP

I drink it out the bottle so I can't really judge.

NPB-XK

simplysona said:

Breast milk?...soy sauce?...what's next sweet n sour sweat?  

Richard Simmons.
Bear Grylls edition for Man vs Wild fans.

PingFaun

Kind of reminds me of the harry potter unusual flavor jelly beans... in icecream version. Gross D:

Hearted

Only in Japan can you find this...

moonk379

nexts gonna be soy sauce mixed with wassabi icecream. then things will get real like 7 strangers in one house true story haha

Alexa

real japan u__u

nana544

Yuck. I cannot even imagine tasting that. How about Cappuccino ice cream???

HERMIT

I can see it now: a thick slab of this soy sauce ice cream in between two thick rice cakes.
It will revolutionize the whole ice cream sandwich market in Asia!

Jaeho

Sounds interesting... Don't knock it till you try it. 

*mkcee

... Erm... I guess no one will know of its true success potential until the sales stats make their point ...
Doesn't sound appealing to ME though. ><'

Jen.

simplysona said:

Breast milk?...soy sauce?...what's next sweet n sour sweat?  

What?! Breast milk ice cream?! o_o This is the first time I've heard of this...

And honestly, I thought wasabi flavoured was bad. 

vurea

If you thought soy sauce flavored ice cream was bad, try ox tongue ice cream o_O

You can find the rest of weird japanese icecream flavors here lol