10 Weird Ice Cream Flavors to Terrify Your Taste Buds

Hooray, it's National Ice Cream Day!

It's the one day of the year we can all relinquish our guilt for scarfing down an entire pint (or four) of Ben & Jerry's in one sitting. But in case your taste buds have bored of basic mint chocolate chip and cookie dough scoops, we've scoured the world for some different — and potentially questionable — ice cream creations.

These flavors swap Oreo pieces and peanut butter swirls for less conventional tastes like bugs, oysters and cheddar cheese. If you're going to pack on the calories, you may as well widen your palate's horizons, right?

Grab the sprinkles, and start scooping.

1. Spaghetti and Cheese Ice Cream by Heladeria Coromoto in Venezuela

Image: Flickr, Benedict Adam

It's cheese flavored with pieces of spaghetti. There's no pasta sauce in the mix, but feel free to drizzle it on at your own risk.

2. Beer Ice Cream by Frozen Pints

Image: Frozen Pints

Yup, you can eat your beer now. Apparently, the ice cream was an inebriated-inspired accident, so you know this stuff is gonna be good. Flavors include Honey IPA and Brown Ale Chip.

3. Lox Ice Cream by Max & Mina's Homemade Ice Cream and Ices in Queens, N.Y.

Image: Flickr, Timothy Vollmer

It's brunch in a cone: vanilla ice cream mixed with bits of nova lox, cream cheese and topped off with salt. Other flavors from the shop include pizza and chocolate-covered potato-chip fudge.

4. Pet Bird-Flavored Ice Cream by Torimi Cafe in Japan

Image: Flickr, Dan Davison

Flavors include Cockatiel and Parakeet. The cafe tells FoodBeast that the cockatiel flavor tastes like "the moment when you're sleeping with your mouth open and your cockatiel runs over your face and gets its leg in your mouth."

Oh yeah, that moment.

5. Cereal Milk Ice Cream by Momofuku Milk Bar

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The best part about cereal? Slurping down the leftover milk at the end. So Milk Bar created a soft serve ice cream out of it. We also hear it has the subtle hint of toasted corn flakes.

6. Cheese Flavored Ice Cream

"Imagine a cheesecake made with cheddar cheese."

7. Cicada Flavored Ice Cream by Sparky's Homemade Ice Cream in Columbia, Mo.

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The bugs — said to taste like peanuts — are coated in brown sugar and milk chocolate, then mixed with vanilla ice cream. The cicadas' wings are used as a finishing garnish.

8. Schweddy Balls by Ben & Jerry's

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So the ingredients (vanilla ice cream with fudge covered rum and malt balls) don't classify this as an odd flavor — but you can't beat the name, which was inspired by a Saturday Night Live sketch featuring Alec Baldwin.

9. Oyster Ice Cream by Namja Town in Japan

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Namja Town, an indoor amusement park in Japan's Ikebukuro district, carries dozens of peculiar scoops, including beef tongue, shark fin and miso-ramen. But the oyster ice cream is supposed to be particularily pungent because of the actual oyster chunks mixed into the cream.

10. Curry Flavored Ice Cream by Vosges Chocolates

Image: Vosges Chocolates

It's featured as one of their "exotic" flavors and is said to be sweet with hints of coconut.

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