Spaghettieis is a traditional ice cream that’s made to look like a bowl of spaghetti with tomato sauce and grated parmesan cheese. This dessert was invented in Mannheim, Germany in 1969 by Dario Fontanella, the son of an ice cream making Italian immigrant.

In order to prepare it, he pushed vanilla gelato through a spaetzle press on a dollop of whipped cream, then topped it with strawberry syrup and white chocolate shavings. A cookie or wafer is often placed on the side to mimic a piece of Italian bread.

Nowadays, spaghettieis can be bought at almost every ice cream parlor, known as eisdiele, because Fontanella didn’t patent his invention. Today, there are different spaghettieis flavors such as banana, chocolate, kiwi, or melon.