BS: Lobster Ice Cream

Subject: BS: Lobster Ice Cream
From: frogprince
Date: 06 Sep 15 - 09:32 PM

I've been meaning to post this for about 2 weeks now. Falmouth, MA: we're strolling the street, looking for anyplace with sugar-free ice cream for my main squeeze; we come to "The Chocolate Emporium". At the corner we approach, a large sign declares, "Our lobster ice cream contains chunks of real lobster". I think a bit about trying some; that is, I think "No way in hell".

Would you?

Apart from the scatological or otherwise obscene, have you come across anything comparably...uh... tempting... recently?

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster Ice Cream
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Sep 15 - 09:44 PM

No, thank God! Unless you count my (imaginative) concoctions, such as spaghetti a la mode with chocolate sauce or baked apples vinaigrette marinara sauce.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster Ice Cream
From: JennieG
Date: 06 Sep 15 - 11:52 PM

Just because one CAN do something, doesn't mean to say that one SHOULD......

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster Ice Cream
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 07 Sep 15 - 02:09 AM

Seems a waste of good lobster, doesn't not ?

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster Ice Cream
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Sep 15 - 08:20 AM

Was it in flavors other than vanilla lobster? I mean, like mint chocolate chip lobster or pistachio lobster or bubblegum lobster? This inquiring mind doesn't need to know, but others might.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster Ice Cream
From: gnu
Date: 07 Sep 15 - 08:51 AM

Blasphemy!

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster Ice Cream
From: frogprince
Date: 07 Sep 15 - 09:22 AM

I think it was obvious that it just came in plain "lobster".
I've found myself wondering whether, if someone actually asks for some, they admit that it's a joke; but my nickel bet is that they really make it.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster Ice Cream
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 07 Sep 15 - 09:24 AM

When a fresh-red Maine lobster is steamed....

some of that fresh, sumptuous, unctiousness, flavor is released....

to be captured, and converted into DownEast icecream...is the perfection of any lobster's creation.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Ahhhh....the dang loo age of the . appendage OR why......mmmmm

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster Ice Cream
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 07 Sep 15 - 12:45 PM

I have for a ling time liked the idea of savoury milkshakes - tomato and basil ... mushroom and garlic ... lobster bisque ... (i.e. chilled soup).
So why not freeze it?

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster Ice Cream
From: Ed T
Date: 07 Sep 15 - 05:56 PM

Colder waters produce better tasting Atlantic lobsters, so lobsters imbedded in ice cream may make some sense, at least at some level.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster Ice Cream
From: bubblyrat
Date: 08 Sep 15 - 04:31 AM

One wouldn't need a cornet or cone with it ; lobsters come complete with their own !!

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster Ice Cream
From: gnu
Date: 08 Sep 15 - 12:12 PM

Lobster "juice" is used to flavour lots of foods. A company in NB.ca cooks local shrimp in it. Darn tasty! I saw it being made in a plant in NF.ca. After processing and removal of the "stuff you ain't supposed to eat", the rest, including the "juice" collected during processing, is ground up into a pulp and cooked again. Buddy said, "Try some." and scooped some up in his hand. I did same. Darn tasty!

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster Ice Cream
From: MMario
Date: 08 Sep 15 - 02:33 PM

Probably not a sweet ice cream; I can imagine a frozen lobster concoction (possibly with a hint of sherry flavor) could be quite tasty. But savoury, not sweet.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster Ice Cream
From: EBarnacle
Date: 08 Sep 15 - 08:39 PM

Why not, garlic ice cream also works. If you are ever in NY's Chinatown, wander into the Chinatown Ice cream factory and start sampling.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster Ice Cream
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Sep 15 - 11:01 PM

Is there also an oyster ice cream? Scallops? Clam? Squid? Octopodi?   Sea squirt?

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster Ice Cream
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 09 Sep 15 - 03:23 AM

I reckon if you were to make a clam chowder, liquidise in a blender, add some extra cream, and then freeze it, you would have a tasty clam ice cream. (I think I'm gonna try it some time soon.)

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster Ice Cream
From: Rob Naylor
Date: 09 Sep 15 - 04:17 AM

I've had salmon and dill ice cream and blue cheese ice cream over here in the UK, and they were both excellent....savoury, not sweet. So I expect the lobster one would be pretty good.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster Ice Cream
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Sep 15 - 10:11 AM

Oysters Rockefeller ice cream! Slides right down, and you can't taste it!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster Ice Cream
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 09 Sep 15 - 11:55 AM

I agree with MMario. Frozen lobster Newburgh.

I'd give it a try, but my basic philosophy is to not screw up a good thing. I prefer my lobster boiled with only an addition of butter. In a pinch, the butter could be optional.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster Ice Cream
From: GUEST,LynnT
Date: 09 Sep 15 - 12:57 PM

One of (First Lady) Dolly Madison's favorite treats is said to be Oyster Ice Cream. Because of this connection, this delicacy was served at a Regency Ball at Dumbarton House in DC which my husband and I attended a few years back -- as I recall it tasted like mediocre onion dip, but very cold.

I'll stick with Vichysoisse, thanks.

LynnT

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster Ice Cream
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Sep 15 - 02:55 PM

Was this ice cream treat before or after the British burned the Executive Mansion? If after I can understand why.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster Ice Cream
From: Rumncoke
Date: 10 Sep 15 - 02:08 PM

during a 'bloom' of jellyfish which stopped all other fishing, one coastal town - I think somewhere in asia, began to make jellyfish ice cream - having the processing plant there already, and shipped out tons of the stuff as a novelty.

Apparently it was well received by those willing to try it, and it did not require many additives due to the consistency of mashed and frozen jellyfish.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster Ice Cream
From: Ed T
Date: 10 Sep 15 - 07:21 PM

Many sea turtles travel thousands of miles to dine on jelly fish.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster Ice Cream
From: RTim
Date: 11 Sep 15 - 03:40 PM

I live in Falmouth - and have tried Ben & Bills' Lobster Ice Cream. There is nothing wrong with it, ie. it tastes of sweet cream ice cream with lobster in it. Not as good a Maple Walnut!

Tim Radford