- Japanese ice-cream lovers have swapped traditional flavours
such as raspberry ripple for something a little more exotic - horse-flesh.
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- As Tokyo swelters in soaring temperatures, people are
being invited to cool off by choosing from a variety of unusual flavours.
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- Vegetarians can enjoy soybean and kelp or a cornet of
strawberry and spinach.
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- After years of fairly cool summers, sales of ice-cream
in Japan have been low.
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- Now with Tokyo basking in temperatures of 39.5C (103F),
the Japan Ice-Cream Association has decided to strike while the iron, or
rather the weather, is hot.
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- It wants to prove there is more to ice-cream than the
usual vanilla flavours and has set up a summer trade fair to promote the
refreshment.
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- A report shows that although the Japanese spent more
than £1.5bn on ice-cream and sorbets last year, the country ranks
only 19th in world consumption.
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- Now the Japanese are spoilt for choice with an array
of different flavours.
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- Garlic, potato and lettuce, and cactus and seaweed along
with raw horse-flesh are now available in Japan's shops.
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- © 2004 BSkyB http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-13163593,00.html
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