Who doesn’t love ice cream? What we love even more: the creative geniuses across the country who keep inventing crazy new flavors to tempt (or shock) our taste buds.
Flavor: Cold Sweat
Where to get it: Sunni Sky’s Homemade Ice Cream
Angier, North Carolina
What's in it: Ice cream base, hot sauces, and pequín, habanero, and Thai chili peppers (store owners ask you to sign a waiver before you eat this!)
Flavor: Guinness
Where to get it: Amy’s Ice Creams
Austin, Houston, and San Antonio, Texas
What's in it: Amy’s sweet-cream mix with Guinness beer
Flavor: Bacon
Where to get it: The Ice Cream Store
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
What's in it: African vanilla ice cream with bacon bits
Flavor: Lobster
Where to get it: Ben & Bill’s Chocolate Emporium
Bar Harbor, Maine
What's in it: Butter-flavored ice cream with lobster chunks
Flavor: Akutaq
Where to get it: Throughout Alaska
What's in it: Whipped animal fat, berries, sugar, and boiled fish
Flavor: Mexican Chocolate
Where to get it: Cafe Pasqual’s
Santa Fe, New Mexico
What's in it: Chocolate ice cream, Kahlúa, chile pequín flakes, cinnamon, almonds, and instant coffee
Flavor: Breakfast Bash
Where to get it: Max & Mina’s Homemade Ice Cream
Queens, New York
What's in it: Maple-walnut ice cream, pancake and French toast pieces, confectioners’ sugar