Come and get your ice cream!

Yes, that is the face of a horse on top of this container for ice cream. Why you ask? Well, that would be because this is ice cream made with raw horse meat! Mmm, tasty. That not enough for you? Well here's a list of some of the other colorful flavors you can find in Japan if you look around hard enough:

Pike (fish)
Octopus
Squid
Cow tongue
Sweet potato
Fried eggplant
Crab
Corn
Rice
Wasabi
Shrimp
Eel
Noodle
Chicken
Miso soup
cactus
Basashi (raw horse meat)
Goat
Whale
Shark fin ramen
Oyster
Abalone
Seeweed
Deep sea water
Spinach
Garlic
Black sesame
Sesame, soybean, and kelp
Lettuce and potato
Wheat
Natto (fermented soybeans)
Silk
Stout beer
Shochu (potato wine)
Red wine
Tulip
Sakura (cherry blossom)

You'd be surprised at how un-disgusting some of these are. I've only personally had black sesame, which is excellent, and wasabi, which is just meh, and have also seen sakura flavor offered before. I've also had a zunda mochi (sweetened rice cakes topped with green soybeans) milk shake which was good. I can't imagine what meat-flavored ice cream is like, but I have had meat-flavored beer thanks to George and Matt, and I hope it's better than that.

Oh, and apparently there's an ice cream shop in Tokyo somewhere that has crazy ice creams from all over the country, so I'll have to check that out. You see, everywhere has it's specialties, and some people apparently like to make ice cream out of it regardless of how insane it sounds. I like a lot of this stuff by itself, but horsemeat ice cream? What were they thinking??