Japan for the Uninvited

Japan has a fine history of taking Western products and producing innovative new versions. They might have gone too far with ice cream, if the following list is anything to go by:

• abalone (shellfish)
• basashi (raw horse meat)
• brown rice
• cherry blossom
• curry
• charcoal
• chicken wings
• deep sea water
• dried kelp (seaweed)
• garlic
• goat
• lettuce
• natto (fermented soy beans)
• noodle
• oyster
• persimmon
• potato
• red wine
• sesame
• shark fin
• silk (?)
• spinach
• stout (beer)
• tulip
• wasabi
• whale
• wheat

• The Wacky World of Japanese Ice-cream (MDN WaiWai)
  Gallery of interesting Japanese ice cream flavours, with descriptions of each
  
• More Japanese Ice Cream (Maiso Bisson)
  “I got all excited about some unappealing Japanese ice cream flavors when I found the story in Mainichi Daily News a while ago”
  
• Green tea ice cream (Wikipedia)
  “This flavour is extremely popular in Japan, and almost all ice cream manufacturers produce a version of it”

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