USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Food historians like Robert Brantley describe oyster ice cream as a type of frozen oyster chowder, which has a savory taste as opposed to a sweet one. Even though this flavor may be obsolete in most ice cream shops and pantries around the country and the world, there are still places that serve this weird concoction.

Detailed explanation-2: -In revolutionary American times, flavors of ice cream were more likely savory than sweet. And Dolley Madison loved oysters in her ice cream.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dolley preferred oyster ice cream. She used small, sweet oysters from the Potomac River near her home to churn up an interesting dessert.

Detailed explanation-4: -Oyster ice cream is a flavor of ice cream with a savory taste. After being recorded in a 19th-century cookbook, then forgotten for the next two centuries, the ice cream flavor has been offered at a number of 21st-century oyster festivals.