Sea-salt ice cream

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Axel and Roxas eating Sea-Salt Ice Cream

Sea-Salt Ice Cream is a type of ice cream found in Twilight Town and Hollow Bastion. It appears throughout the Kingdom Hearts universe, but made its first appearance in Kingdom Hearts II. The ice cream's flavor mixes both a salty taste with a sweet taste as well. Ansem the Wise was very fond of this ice cream, and often ate it while conversing with King Mickey, sharing it with Ienzo and later used it as the password for his computer in the Old Mansion, which Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Mickey use to enter the Simulated Twilight Town. After Riku steals the digital Olette's Munny pouch from Roxas, he asks DiZ what to do with it, and DiZ jokes, "We could always buy some sea-salt ice cream."

Hayner, Pence, and Olette also enjoyed this ice cream. They and Roxas often enjoyed it together.

Riku left a sea-salt ice cream with a picture of Roxas and the gang from the Simulated Twilight Town as clues for Sora, Donald, and Goofy. Donald took an immediate liking to the ice-cream, and Sora is quoted in his second visit to Twilight Town saying "He swallowed it".

When Sora arrives in Hollow Bastion, he sees Scrooge McDuck, who is trying to recreate the flavor for sea-salt ice cream. Through subsequent visits as the storyline advances, Scrooge comes closer to reinventing the flavor and ultimately succeeds.

In one of Roxas's flashbacks, Axel offers him a stick of sea-salt ice cream before their parting. A droplet can be seen falling to the ground, though it is unknown whether the droplet is Axel's tear or just melted ice cream.

In Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, Axel treated Roxas to sea-salt ice cream after Roxas completing his first mission on the Twilight Town Clock Tower and reminding him they sat there the first day Roxas got his new name. He then suggested that he and Roxas should meet each other to eat ice cream after they completed their missions every day, stating going back and forth to the Castle That Never Was was boring. After Axel left for his mission in Castle Oblivion, Roxas invited Xion to join him. Soon, Roxas, Axel, and Xion began eating ice cream together after their missions. Sea-salt ice cream is Axel's favorite flavor.

In the Kingdom Hearts II manga, Roxas falls off the Clock Tower while trying to catch his ice cream that was sliding off of the stick.

Trivia

• An interview with Nomura ([1]) shows that Nomura first tasted Sea-salt ice cream at a trip to Tokyo DisneySea, a smaller resort of Disney's parks in Japan. He liked the ice cream very much and decided to work with Disney to have it put into Kingdom Hearts II. He also said that the idea to put the dessert into the game came to him when he was thinking about what the kids in Twilight Town do and eat over summer vacation.
• A fan-made recipe for Sea-salt ice cream was invented. It can be found here: Sea-Salt Ice Cream Recipe
• The system icon for Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days is a bar of the ice cream.
• In Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, it is revealed that some ice cream sticks have the word "WINNER" on it. This allows the owner to get a free ice cream bar. Axel first notifies Roxas of this on one of their later meetings, Roxas finding a WINNER Stick, but keeps it secret. He later bestows the stick to Axel as a farewell gift when he leaves the Organization.