Ikea-Colored Ice Cream Doesn’t Taste Like Trendy Furniture
It’s a country of garlic-dumpling flavored beer and Pepsi Cheetos, but for some reason, Japan draws the line for culinary weirdness at Ikea ice cream.
Created for the fifth anniversary of an Ikea Japan branch in the Saitama prefecture, the blue and gold soft-serve is meant to resemble the flag of Sweden, where the furniture chain originated. According to Rocket News, however, the vivid, unnatural colors are enough to make more than a few Japanese bloggers queasy.
“The combination of yellow and bright blue is very innovative,” writes food blog Entabe, “It’s beautiful, but would require courage to eat.”
Considering Japanese cuisine lacks most of the poppy, over-saturated hues common in western culture, the hesitation is fair enough, but mostly unnecessary. The blue and gold are actually just yogurt and apple mango. (Thankfully, because Windex and Goldfish-flavor would just be weird.)
H/T + PicThx Rocket News
