How People Make Ice Cream Around the World

Great Big Story senior producer Beryl Shereshewsky is hosting an ice cream social in the latest episode of “Around the World.” Grab a spoon, and join her as she speaks with seven people from seven countries to learn how they make ice cream. Among the treats waiting to be sampled: colorful halo-halo in the Philippines; spaghetti ice cream in Germany that really looks like pasta; and a delicious sweet and sour prickly pear ice cream in Mexico made from the fruit of wild cacti.


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[treetopy]

That guy who said he became an ice cream maker the morning after he was born... That was one of the most poetic things I've ever heard.

[decoygale]

The Filipino take of ice cream is often overlooked and overshadowed by the commercial ones. Granted that halo-halo is a unique form, sorbetes isn't we should sleep on as well. Instead of regular cow's milk, carabao milk is used instead since it is cheaper. They also use coconut milk and cassava flour too which makes the ice cream, well, creamier and thicker. And residing on a tropical country, the sorbeteros - the one who makes sorbetes - have a variety of fruity tropical flavors at their disposal such as mango, dragon fruit, avocado, melon, pandan, coconut, durian, jackfruit, and even ube - not a fruit, but still widely popular in the country.

[sayakchoudhury]

Faluda (as it is locally known) is very popular in India as well, we have a lot of Persian influence in our cuisine.
Edit: Traditional Indian ice-cream is known as Kulfi, it's denser and creamier than western ice-cream so takes longer to melt!

[zanatech]

Oh I miss turkish ice cream! Growing up i spent all of my summers in Turkey. I always used to tell people the ice cream is the best there, the stretchy/chewy texture is amazing and the taste in any flavours is just yum!

[tzuveri]

*sees halo-halo in the thumbnail*

Filipinos: who dares to awaken us

[zheidari]

Lots of love from Afghanistan 🇦🇫, we have ice cream called SHEER YAKH, quite traditionally made and top up with pistachio. Extremely delicious and mouthful

[大塒昭]

Halo-halo is being made in Filipino:

Me that can speak Filipino: *Reads subtitles anyway*

[totallycrazystudios]

Let's appreciate the fact that such a thing as Num Num Berries exist.

[shresthachowdhury]

I like the idea that the video is multilingual.no body is compelled to speak in English.

[soccerchamp]

Ahhh Spaghetti Eis!!! I miss it so much. When I lived in Germany it was awesome because they had legit old school style ice cream shops with cool, imaginative ice cream creations like spaghetti eis. For the Germans ice cream isn’t just a dessert, it’s an art form.

[piasaureus]

Hello, aside from Halo-Halo, the Philippines also have something we call as “ice candy” where it is usually composed frozen milk mixed with coconut or avocado (well it mostly depends on the fruit that is on season) and it is packed in a small plastic container

[daileydouthit]

My mom grew up in Mississippi and her grandmother would always make homemade ice cream in the swampy summers. My grandmother, mom, and I have all learned how to make it, and it is a special treat for birthdays and hot summer days. We all love it and it makes me smile to see how many other people have similar but unique traditions :)

[stmbds]

i eat "halo-halo" even when its raining outside, my family would rather eat halo-halo than drink coffee in the morning if only our elders arent diabetic thats how obsessed we are lmao

[mmmmiba]

I’m so sad we won’t ever see videos like these again..💔

[disonwijeratne]

Around the world gives a huge insight to all cultures around the world. Keep on doing the show!!!!

[kshaw]

The 4 guys toasting the South African ice cream was so wholesome

[mmtantra]

I'm from Indonesia and we have a dessert called 'Es Campur' which literally mean 'Mixed Ice' and it's actually similar to Halo-halo (even the name is similar) but different than halo-halo, es campur doesn't really contain any ice cream, it contains mainly shaved ice with fruits, cincau (bittersweet jelly), small tapioca balls, etc. and top it with condensed milk & coco-pandan syrup (a special flavored syrup which has the color pink).
There is also a similar desert called 'Es Teler' which almost the same but it usually contains fruits more: avocado, jackfruit, coconut but the main difference that we only use condensed milk, no coco-pandan syrup.
There's many more in fact just some examples: es doger, es puter, es lilin, es cendol, es cincau etc.
(Keep it mind the indonesian word for ice is 'es', so even ice cream became es krim)

I wouldn't call them ice creams though, but it's just amazing that Philippines and Indonesia as neighbors have almost similar deserts. Love Philippines 🇵🇭 from Indonesia 🇮🇩

P.S. across Southeast Asia there is a lot of durian ice cream which is delicious (if you stand durians)

[Meijibby]

Me being Filipino and understands Tagalog: **Still reads subtitles**

[Dikoleo]

I love how the Italian guys start his segment with "granita is not ice cream" XD.

[elcompagenito]

"Tuna icecream"
Mexicans: *who has awaken the ancient one*