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Russell Nelson

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Date shakes from Hadley Fruit Orchards.

Drinks

Palm Springs Date Shakes

The prosperous Southern California date industry produces delicious milkshakes.

Each branch grows radial branches from its head.

Gastro

Swizzle Sticks

These natural cocktail stirrers sprout from the Caribbean swizzlestick tree.

At the Gilroy Garlic Festival, the tips of garlic ice cream cones look like mini bulbs.

Sweets

Garlic Ice Cream

In Gilroy, California, garlic flavors everything, including desserts.

Angulas with garlic and shrimp.

Prepared Foods

Angulas

What look like noodles are actually delicious baby eels.

A batch of traditional balsamic vinegar from Acetaia di Giorgio.

Ingredients & Condiments

Traditional Balsamic Vinegar

Most people have never tasted the real thing.

Floating Island

Sweets

Floating Island

The 17th-century dessert plants an isle of meringue in a sea of custard.

Dutch Baby

Prepared Foods

Dutch Baby

Fluffy, crispy, and large enough to share, it's no ordinary pancake.

Real mortadella Bologna often contains pistachios.

Meats & Animal Products

Mortadella

Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.

Pie Birds

Gastro

Pie Birds

To release steam, Victorian bakers placed whimsical ceramics in their pastries.

Green Chartreuse

Drinks

Green Chartreuse

Only two silent monks know all 130 plants that go into this herbal liqueur.

Nattō

Prepared Foods

Nattō

These pungent fermented soybeans are coated in probiotic slime.

Kopstootje

Gastro

Kopstootje

The Dutch drinking ritual begins with a glass of genever and ends with a “little head-butt.”

Lutefisk

Prepared Foods

Lutefisk

The lye-soaked fish recipe created by Vikings is now a holiday favorite at Midwestern church dinners.

Geoduck

Meats & Animal Products

Geoduck

This phallic, giant clam is the culinary crown jewel of the Pacific Northwest.

Turkish Coffee

Drinks

Turkish Coffee

Locals joke that you should be able to “float a horseshoe” on the thick brew.

Boiled Green Peanuts

Prepared Foods

Boiled Green Peanuts

Roadside vendors in the Deep South soften fresh goobers with bubbling brine.

Some wassail ready to be sipped.

Drinks

Wassail

This spiced, warming drink may have helped broker peace between warring tribes.

A seafood okonomiyaki topped with bonito flakes

Prepared Foods

Okonomiyaki

A wartime rice scarcity made this versatile pancake a Japanese staple.

A breaded scrapple and egg sandwich.

Prepared Foods

Scrapple

Pennsylvania's pork loaf embodies Amish resourcefulness.

Bitter Melon

Fruits & Vegetables

Bitter Melon

This nightmarish-looking fruit has serious healing potential.

Rocky Mountain Oysters

Prepared Foods

Rocky Mountain Oysters

Battered and fried testicles make use of a cattle-country surplus.

Broasted Chicken

Prepared Foods

Broasted Chicken

This style of fried chicken is pressure-cooked while it fries.

Red-Eye Gravy

Ingredients & Condiments

Red-Eye Gravy

Once described as a “divine elixir,” this Southern sauce typically gets its spunk from coffee.

Pemmican was made with bison meat and fat, along with choke cherries.

Meats & Animal Products

Pemmican

Touted as the original energy bar, the bison-based mixture kept for months.

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