We've all seen some less than traditional flavors of ice cream, but the British company Lick Me I'm Delicious might have just taken the cake- or the scoop actually! The company's award winning food inventor Charlie Harry Francis came up with the idea.
"But what on earth is it???" Francis writes on the company's blog. "It's glow-in-the-dark jellyfish ice cream using calcium activated proteins that react when they are agitated, or to put it in a nonscience-y way, it glows when you lick it."
Francis worked with a Chinese scientist who figured out how to manufacture the luminescence protein that is found in jellyfish. He used it to make the ice cream emit a neon green glow when your tongue makes contact with it.
Just one scoop of this glowing ice cream costs around £140 or $225.22. And to answer the question we're all asking, 'is it safe to eat,?' Francis writes, "Well I tried some and I don't seem to be glowing anywhere so we'll go with a yes for now."
In addition to the glowing ice cream, Francis has also made a glow-in-the-dark gin and tonic sorbet using a substance called quinine which is a drug made from tree bark that is usually used to treat malaria.
