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Foreign Grocery Friday: The Lobster Ice Cream of Las Vegas

September 9, 2011 at 2:01 PM | by | Comments (0)

When we travel, one of our favorite things to do is to pop into a local grocery store and check out the food products and candies we'd never find anywhere else. So we're trying out this new feature, Foreign Grocery Friday, where each week we'll feature some of our (and your) favorite overseas treats. Got a recommendation? Let us know!

Okay so it's not technically foreign, but the Lobster Ice Cream at Las Vegas' new Lobster ME food kiosk in the Miracle Mile mall is totally worth a feature on its own. For one, it's totally Vegas in that it's something so weird, so novelty, so foreign to Vegas that's cool by default. In fact, perhaps the only people in the country who wouldn't turn their nose up at the stuff would be visitors to Vegas, open to wild and crazy new experiences (and with coin to drop on expensive ice cream).

Even a friend from Maine traveling to Vegas with us—a person who knows his lobster—refused to try it, instead opting for Lobster ME's lobster grilled cheese.


The tub in the freezer

The taste: The beauty of this dish is that, if you really wanted to, you could make it at home. It's essentially just big, juicy chunks of lobster meat mixed in with plain ice cream (maybe it was vanilla?) and then frozen.

Eating at Lobster ME however, we were totally grossed out on the first bite owing to the fact that it's pretty obvious you're just chewing through partially frozen seafood chunks in ice cream. The lobster flavor does come through like crazy once you've thawed each piece in your mouth though, and the next few bites weren't so bad. Then we started to enjoy it and finished every last little bit. That said, we won't be back for more. There's a gazillion other novelty ice cream flavors out there yet to try.

Price: $9 for this little cup. Yes, $9. We were afraid to ask how much for a cone.

Where to find it: Lobster ME is located in the Miracle Mile shopping mall, about midway between the Planet Hollywood casino and the Planet Hollywood Westgate Towers. You kinda can't miss it, since the sign for lobster ice cream causes half the passers-by to do a double-take. Do note they also offer "Lobsicles," which are tempura lobster tails on a stick (not frozen).

If you'd like to share some of your foreign grocery finds, we'd love love love to see them. Send 'em on over via email here and snack on, my friends.

[Photo: Jaunted]

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