When Bostonist heard that J.P. Licks’ October flavors include not just predictable seasonal favorites like pumpkin and caramel apple, but also a whole series of Thai-food-inspired ice creams, we had to give them a try.

The Thai iced tea had a nice consistency—perhaps from the addition of condensed milk—but it had a milder tea flavor than we hoped for. If you hadn’t told us it was Thai iced tea, we might have mistaken it for a particularly dull pumpkin-pie ice cream. The coconut curry, pleasantly spicy but mellowed by the coconut, was our favorite. Shredded coconut gave it a nice texture. The pad thai ice cream was, well, vile. You’d get the same effect by throwing a frozen bowl of Trader Joe’s pad thai in a blender with some heavy cream. The crunchy noodles and peanuts were inoffensive, but the cilantro and green onions totally overpowered everything. It left a B.O.-ey, oniony aftertaste that actually got worse with time. It would, however, make excellent dare material. J.P. Licks also offers sweet and sour sorbet, which is supposed to taste like Thai dipping sauce. We didn’t taste that, but maybe we will sometime this month… if someone dares us.

Cave Cibum also gave the Thai-food-flavored ice creams a whirl and reports on it here.

Photo by Lisa Scanlon.