Dinner by Heston Blumenthal proving so popular that by November 2011, some 900 were being sold per week and the restaurant was aiming to increase production to be able to supply up to 1200 a week. During the Christmas period, the Meat Fruit is decorated to appear like a plum rather than a mandarin to accord with the holiday season. The ice cream trolley holds a contraption created by Blumenthal and his team, and constructed from Corian by Mike Smith Studio at a cost of £25,000. Powered by a hand crank, it mixes custard and liquid nitrogen to create instant ice cream at the
Garlic ice cream and 2005. It has also been showcased at the 2011 Toronto Garlic Festival in Toronto, Canada and the 2012 North Quabbin Garlic and Arts Festival at Forster's Farm in Orange, Massachusetts. Garlic ice cream is a food item on The Stinking Rose's food menu. The ice cream flavour is treated as a "sauce" to accompany food items like steak, although it can also be consumed as a dessert item. In accordance with a stereotype that Jews tend to add garlic to most of their food, a novel by Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz depicted Polish Jews eating garlic ice cream. Garlic ice