IN THE 110 years since the ice cream cone was first invented, you may think they would have thought of every possible flavour.
Old English trifle, brown bread, walnut and banana pudding, as well as alcoholic ice creams are among the more unusual varieties that will be available at a special festival on Sunday.
However, at the Shiver Me Timbers Ice Cream Festival, you will also be able to add crab and lobster ice cream to the menu.
It will be one of more than 60 flavours of ice cream available at the free event at Patrington Haven Caravan and Leisure Park, from 11am to 4pm.
Geoff Barry, of the leisure park, said: "Chefs at the Country Club restaurant at the leisure park are creating the special ice cream for the event.
"It will be served with an oyster wafer.
"The shellfish being used will have been harvested sustainably off the Holderness coast by local Withernsea fisherman John White and landed at Withernsea.
"Unfortunately I won't be able to try it as I have an allergy to sea food, but I do think it will be popular."
The ice cream cone was invented by Italo Marchiony in New York when he was granted a US patent in 1903 for a pastry mould to hold ice cream.
Guy Sparkes, managing director of Patrington Haven Leisure Park, said: "The ice cream festival has provided us with the ideal platform for us to launch a crab and lobster ice cream made with sustainably caught local shellfish and put the message across about protecting and preserving stocks of shellfish for the future."
The party celebrations will be spread throughout the day with pirate-themed entertainment, including mask-making workshops.
Kat Sanders, of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, said: "We are trying to advocate that consumers of shellfish ask where it is caught and how it is caught and make responsible decisions.
"Anything that raises awareness of the messages we are trying to get across is brilliant."
Keeping the theme going, there will be a 110th birthday toast, when cones filled with flavoured strawberries and champagne ice cream will be served from an array of mobile ice cream parlours, retro American street carts and a restored 1950s Vindeck ice cream vending tricycle standing alongside traditional ice cream vans.
There will also be a hand-crafted birthday cake made from ice cream and ice cream toasties.
Among those at the event will be Phil Hagyard, who will be selling ice creams from his restored 1950s Vindeck ice cream trike.
Mr Hagyard, or Walkington, said: "The trike is very popular. It is something a bit different nowadays, although at one time there were quite a few about.
"It is not very good to cycle around in – it is hard work.
"Probably the most unusual but popular ice cream flavour we sell is the bakewell tart flavour.
"I am looking forward to trying the crab and lobster flavour. It will be a first for me."
