LISBON (AFP) - A shop in Portugal is reportedly planning to start selling ice-cream in flavors like shrimp, cod, tuna and grilled sardines when it opens next month.

The "Coromoto" store in the southern fishing port and canning centre of Portimao, located 300 kilometres (185 miles) south of Lisbon, will offer a total of 60 exotic flavors alongside traditional options like chocolate and vanilla, its owner told the Lusa news agency.

"Anything that you can eat or drink can be transformed into an ice cream," said Manuel Oliveira, who said he and his daughter would make all the flavoured ice creams without using any chemicals.

Among the other ice creams to be served are several alcohol-based flavours like Baileys Irish Cream, French fruit and herb liquer Pisang Ambon, and Curacao, a liquor made from the laraha fruit, a variety of orange.

Oliveira, 52, said he inherited his passion for ice cream from his father, also named Manuel Oliveira, who earned a place in the Guiness Book of Records for dreaming up the largest number of flavors of the popular dessert.

His father's shop in the Venezuelan city of Merida serves over 700 ice cream flavors, including spaghetti, trout and garlic.

Ice cream makers across Europe are introducing more and more unusual flavors and premium brands in order to hold on to their market shares in the face of stagnant sales in recent years.