Tiger tail ice cream, also called tiger tiger or tiger flavour, is a

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orange-flavoured ice cream with black liquorice swirl. It is named for its resemblance to orange and black tiger stripes. Tiger tail is most popular in

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, particularly in southern

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and Atlantic Canada, and not often found elsewhere in the world. It is a distinctly flavoured ice cream. This flavour of ice cream is offered by such companies as Chapman's, Kawartha, and

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. Tiger tail is considered a retro ice cream flavour, owing to its popularity from the 1950s to 1970s, and it has seen a nostalgia-related resurgence since the 2010s.

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