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Atlas Obscura reports
Humans have been using frozen treats to beat the heat for millennia. One of the earliest examples, a Persian proto–snow cone of ice and grape syrup, dates back as early as 400 B.C. In the time since, chilled sweets have assumed myriad flavors and forms around the world.
Beyond their delicious offerings, ice cream parlors, soda fountains, and street carts often provide a window into local history and culture. In Havana, Cuba, an ice cream shop built by Fidel Castro dates back to the leader’s 1960s campaign to rival the American dairy industry. In Cape Town, South Africa, a microbiologist meticulously works out flavor combinations that tell the stories of distinctly African ingredients. And in Stockholm, Sweden, the Nobel museum’s bistro serves up the same gorgeously sculpted ice cream enjoyed by the distinguished recipients of the titular prize.
Our favourite that we want to visit is in Venuezuela
TROUT, MUSHROOMS IN WINE, HOT dog – these are just three of the 900 ice cream flavors enjoyed at the Heladeria Coromoto ice cream parlor in Merida, Venezuela. The shop offers the world’s largest selection of ice cream flavors, and there are seemingly no limits to the variety of tastes for the most adventurous of palettes, all of them all-natural. “If you eat the spaghetti with cheese ice cream, it has real spaghetti and cheese in it,” says manager, Jose Ramiraz.
After years of working for large ice cream companies, Portuguese immigrant, Manuel Da Silva Oliveira realized he could expand the horizons of ice cream, infusing it with all kinds of eclectic and exotic flavors, and opened Heladeria Coromoto in 1980.
Here are 14 shops and street stalls where the stories and the flavors are anything but vanilla.
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