Everything about the Blue Java Banana seems like a hoax: Can the fruit be this blue? Does it really taste like ice cream? Was it really invented by Sirs Ben and Jerry, on a night when they were ...

This rare banana variant tastes like ice cream! Yes, you read it right, the Blue Java banana hails from Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia and the Philippines. This unique banana variant is not ...

A post shared thousands of times on Facebook shows two images of bananas. But not just any bananas. "This is Blue Java banana and it tastes like vanilla ice cream," text in the July 18 post says.