Have You Ever Tried Garlic Ice Cream?

Okay, I gave up sweets for Lent, but would it count if I had onion flavored ice cream? I don't know, but I do know where you can get onion flavored ice cream, along with 859 other flavors. At Cormoto Ice Cream Parlor in Merida, Venezuela, the flavors of ice cream, however ordinary they look, are anything but ordinary. Yes, of course they do have the regulars, but behind that glass is a lot more than chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla: garlic, chili, avocado, beans and rice, sweet corn, onion, tomato, cream of crab, mushrooms in wine, pork rines, smoked salmon, macaroni and sardines-in-brandy, ham and cheese, and beet root are just a few. They normally have 70 to 80 flavors at any one time, depending on what the workers can find in local markets and stores. They started with only four flavors: vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, and coconut. The first weird flavor was avocado. The hard part is that every time a new flavor is invented, a funky name has to be erected to accompany it. I wonder if any mothers have had to force feed the ice cream to their children!