Summer is around the corner which means ice cream is on everyone's mind. Ice cream is a time-tested treat, but it seems not everyone is satisfied with tradition. Recently, creative ice creams ideas have been popping up everywhere.

On May 12, Häagen-Dazs Japan will debut two health-driven flavors: Tomato Cherry and Carrot Orange. The flavors are part of the company's "Spoon Vege" line and are exactly like they sound. According to a press release from Häagen-Dazs (written in Japanese), the Tomato Cherry flavor is made with cherry juice and tomato paste and creates a rich flavor by combining "the natural sweetness of tomato with the fruity flavor of cherry," according to RocketNews24. Meanwhile, the Carrot Orange flavor's ingredients include concentrated carrot juice, concentrated orange juice, orange peel and orange pulp, and RocketNews24 reports it "takes the gentle flavor of carrot and adds to it the fresh citrus taste and scent of orange," creating a refreshing, sophisticated dessert. The veggies flavors will cost $2.80 for each container, which is about one fourth of a pint.

According LA Times, Häagen-Dazs has yet to announce plans to bring these flavors to the United States, but that doesn't you mean you can't get some weird ice cream around these parts.

Baskin Robbins introduced its Movie Theater Popcorn ice cream in January. The dessert inclues pieces of crunchy popcorn as well as a ribbon of salted caramel.

In March, New York's Chinatown Ice Cream Factory debuted its Soy Sauce flavor. The ice cream is topped off with wasabi sesame seeds.

Coolhaus, which delivers "architecturally-inspired" ice cream via ice cream trucks around the country premiered its Pistachio & Black Truffle ice cream this week. It features pistachio ice cream mixed with black truffle oil and pieces of black truffle.

Meanwhile, Izzy's Ice Cream in Minneapolis and St. Paul only wants poets dishing out ice cream this year.

"Haikus are accessible, meticulous, and have a latent curiosity in them," Shannon Leach, Izzy's general manager, told Star Tribune."These are values we would love to see in anybody we hire."

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