This may be the most unique record I’ve broken. It’s also nowhere near as fun as it sounds. The Guinness World Records Title is for “Most flavours of ice cream identified in one minute (blindfolded)”. It took me well over a year from start to finish to break it. I purchased at least 50 different flavors to get a combination of 14 that would work. In the end, I was able to identify 11 in one minute. I will say, my wife was ready to have her freezer back.
Practice requires at least 2 people. When I practice alone and know the flavor of ice cream, I can taste the flavor immediately. When I don’t know the flavor, sometimes I never taste it.
Photo by Richard Alan Hannon 
David Rush of Boise, Idaho attempts a Guinness World Records of tasting and identifying ice cream while blindfolded. Photo by Richard Alan Hannon 
Randomizing. Photo by Richard Alan Hannon 
Celebrating! David Rush of Boise, Idaho attempts a Guinness World Records of tasting and identifying ice cream while blindfolded. Photo by Richard Alan Hannon
Chocolate chip cookie dough is also one of the easiest flavors to identify, and one of the worst to have in the lineup. As soon as you get a chunk of cookie dough in the mouth, you can’t get it out, and everything tastes like cookie dough. Coffee flavors are also easy to get (so long as you only have one) but they are overpowering. Most fruits also taste the same. The senses are also dulled with the pressure of one minute on the clock.
The previous record was 11 and I tied it since I got “Java” out as the 12th flavor before time expired but “chip” wasn’t spoken until time expired.
