21 Unexpected Ice Cream Flavors Gallery

You can hit up any old Baskin Robbins or Ben & Jerry's for your usual cone. You can browse the aisles of supermarkets for old reliable flavors. You will always have your choice of chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, and if you're feeling really wild, rocky road. But these 21 flavors are not your grandma's after-dinner mint chip.

These flavors hand-selected by The Daily Meal are made by their respective shops and inventors to be unexpectedly delicious, weird, and fun. Many of these ice creams come from some of the best ice cream stands in every state, and the winning flavor combinations they've created are hardly something just anyone could dream up on their own — they're just that surprising. Could these be some of the best new ice cream flavors for 2018?

Once you read about flavors like Thanksgiving Dinner, Lobster, and Brown Sugar Sour Cream and Rhubarb Jam, you'll never crave those boring run-of-the-mill flavors again. Click here to truly surprise yourself with all that ice cream has to offer and read about these 21 unexpected ice cream flavors.

Beans, greens, tomatoes, potatoes... Those are the flavors the Ice Cream Store in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware is trying to evoke in their Thanksgiving Dinner ice cream. It's actually African vanilla ice cream with pasteurized egg yolks, castor sugar, Heinie Hurtn' Hot Sauce and Campell's tomato juice. Don't yuck at this flavor that could very easily be somebody's yum!

According to Rochelle's Ice Cream, their Fireweed and Honey flavor is made from a bright pink native plant, combined with honey. The flavor is both floral, sweet, and unique.

One Yelp review describes The Bent Spoon in New Jersey this way: "The best ice cream in the Northeast! The flavors are so unique and delicious." One of their more unique flavors is their olive oil ice cream, which is a summertime fan-favorite.

Amy's Ice Cream, a Texas ice cream powerhouse with over 350 flavors, serves a Southeast Asian-inspired scoop called All Thai'd Up. It's a mix of ginger, fresh basil, coconut cream, coconut rum, lime juice, and toasted coconut.

This combination of flavors is pretty much every good thing you can think of rolled into one creamy, dreamy treat. It's sold at Salt & Straw's big Oregon competitor, Ruby Jewel.

If you love black licorice or black jelly beans, you will go nuts for Izzy's Ice Cream's Black Licorice flavor. Izzy's describes it as having a "rich, buttery texture with the sweet saltiness of the black licorice you grew up with."

Nerds, aka those tiny colorful sugar nuggets, have inspired one ice cream flavor at Mallard, the best ice cream stand in Washington state.

Momofuku is known for their iconic Cereal Milk soft serve. One bite tastes exactly like slurping the remnants of cereal milk from the bowl.

Pizza ice cream is real, which means anything is possible. Little Baby's Ice Cream makes their pizza flavor with tomato, basil, oregano, salt, and garlic, just like your favorite pizza pie!

Pickle juice is the flavor darling of 2018. Sonic is releasing icy pickle slushies, but if you want something a little smoother, New York City's Lucky Pickle Dumpling Company offers a pickle juice soft serve. Yummy!