My pal Mickey Paraskevas sent me this link to a display of frightening flavors of ice cream from around the world, though mostly in Japan. I gave up ice cream and other desserts years ago but when I did indulge, I was always perfectly happy with chocolate, vanilla, some combination of the two or orange sherbet. I guess I always thought of ice cream as a kind of comfort food: The great thing about it was that if I stayed with those flavors, I always enjoyed it. I do gamble with some things in life — like in some way with every job I undertake — but never saw the point of gambling with my ice cream.