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The cooler at Udder Delight in Rehoboth Beach contains some of owner Chip Hearn's unusual ice cream flavors, including bacon and barbecue.
The cooler at Udder Delight in Rehoboth Beach contains some of owner Chip Hearn's unusual ice cream flavors, including bacon and barbecue. (Photos By Ricky Carioti -- The Washington Post)
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Bryan Wetstone, 15, from Columbia, tries the Cackalacky ice cream and doesn't appear to enjoy it. Hearn says to Skelton, "I think he's going to puke."

When Hearn held a by-invitation tasting a month ago, about 150 people agreed to sample and review 18 flavors, from the new bacon one to others such as cappuccino stout beer, key lime pie, Black Forest (dark chocolate ice cream with chocolate chips and dark Oregon sweet cherries) and honey fig. "There'd be things like, 'This one sucks!' and somebody else would write, 'This one's great, but I wish it had this in' " -- and suggest another ingredient, he says. "The cappuccino stout beer, they either loved it or they hated it. It was like a focus group."

The winners: chocolate raspberry chip, Moo Moo (raspberry ice cream with peaches and strawberries) and Going Nuts With Chocolate (chocolate ice cream with peanuts, almonds, cashews and pecans) -- all good sellers.

Hearn didn't put his "Viagra" flavor to the test. It's made from orange and pineapple in a blue ice cream, with Pop Rocks added at the end. "When it goes into your mouth, you get all the Pop Rocks popping," he says, making no medical claims for the concoction.

Do people buy the Viagra ice cream?

"Less people buying it than asking about it -- but they see the sign and they have to ask," Hearn says.

The weirdest ice cream Hearn has made -- and it's hard to pick just one -- was inspired by the Kennett Square Mushroom Festival in Pennsylvania. "We did mushroom ice cream and mushroom-pecan ice cream," he says. "The mushroom sucked, but the mushroom-pecan rocked! But I would guess that mushroom-pumpkin was the weirdest one ever."

Tricia Collins, scooping a cone for a customer, looks up and shakes her head.

"We just made a cucumber-onion ice cream using Vidalia onions," Hearn confesses. "The onion didn't work, but the cucumber did."

"That's downright weird, Chip," Skelton teases.

Says Hearn: "What I've been saying to them lately is, 'Put a sample in your mouth while you're making up your mind.' It's fun. Ice cream's all about fun."


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