![]() a tiger's blood ice | |
Alternative names | tiger blood |
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Type | flavor |
Course | dessert |
Associated cuisine | American cuisine |
Main ingredients | strawberry, watermelon, and coconut |
Tiger's blood or tiger blood is a flavor of shave ice, [1] snow cones, [2] and other products. [3]
It does not contain blood or anything from tigers. [2] [1] The flavor is a combination of strawberry, watermelon, and a smaller amount of coconut, [1] [2] though some syrup makers have slightly different recipes and add other flavors like cherry. [4]
Though the flavor is strongly associated with Hawaiʻi, some think it originated in Texas in the 1980s. [4] However, ads from the area at the time make clear the connection to Hawaiʻi, [5] and the flavor was still considered exotic in Texas into the next decade. [6] Also in the mid 1980's tiger blood was appearing in Utah and South Carolina along with imaginative flavors like "rock & roll" and "popeye". [7] [8] In 1977 the flavor was in Missouri at a New Orleans-style shave-ice shop. [9]
3. Tiger's Blood Tiger's Blood is a great name for a shave ice flavor because it could also be a heavy metal band (it's actually the name of a heavy metal band's album). But don't worry: No tigers were actually hurt in the making of this flavor. It's just a mixture of strawberry, watermelon and a splash of coconut. Get it at Ululani's Hawaiian Shave Ice on Maui and other shave ice shops in Hawaiʻi.