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Eye candy and actual candy.
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Churchkhela

These delicious strands of juice-coated nuts look like colorful candlesticks.
Sweet on the inside, floss on the outside.
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Hala Fruit

It looks like an exploding planet and tastes like sugarcane.
Fresh-pressed pandan leaf adds a limey glow to this refresher.
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Pandan Leaf Extract

This plant adds a hint of vanilla and a wash of brilliant green to any dish.
Berliner weisse, flavored with green woodruff syrup. (Yes, that's a child in a mug on the brewery's logo.)
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Berliner Weisse

Pink or green syrup turns a historic German ale into a tart, sweet delight.
Cinnamon cream cheese–filled King Cake.
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King Cake

The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.
The first sign a rollinia has started to age: blackened spikes.
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Rollinia

Brazil's spiky yellow fruit has lemon meringue–flavored insides.
A butterfly pea cocktail.
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Butterfly Pea Flower

With a squeeze of lemon, this plant can turn any drink into a color-changing mood ring.
The bright pink engkala with its signature green cap.
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Engkala

This creamy, bright pink fruit is known as the "Borneo avocado."
Holding up a cone of dondurma.
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Watch a Dondurma Vendor Trick Customers Before Handing Them Treats

Turkish ice cream lends itself to delightful antics.
Paula Mejia December 15, 2017
Get your thrills with rosewater gum.
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Thrills Gum

Everyone says this vintage chewing gum tastes like soap, including the company.
Sweet paan sans areca nut.
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Paan

This chewable Indian digestive soothes stomachs, freshens breath, and might give you cancer.
Some blues get you down, some blues get you up.
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Blue-Green Algae

The Aztecs used it to make protein-rich tortillas; we use it to make unicorn lattes.
After a little time, ñachi solidifies into cubes.
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Ñachi

This Chilean dish turns fresh blood into savory jelly.
A beautiful cup of agua de agrillo.
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Agua de Agrillo

This tart, rare flavor of agua fresca comes from Mexican skunkbush berries.
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Jagua

This fruit makes tattoos, antibiotics, and dessert.
A layer-by-layer look at the colorful salad.
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Herring Under a Fur Coat

The most sobering salad of the Russian Civil War.
Bowls of tiết canh laid out ahead of a feast.
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Vietnamese Blood Soup

Tiết canh is a sour, cool, and gelatinous breakfast.
Vibrant jelly flowers fill jelly cakes.
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3-D Jelly Cakes

These clear cakes house intricate scenes of fish, flowers, and more.