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Soused herring eaten "the Dutch way"

Prepared Foods

Dutch Soused Herring

No one eats pickled herring like the Dutch.

A boat-shaped salt cellar, replete with sea monsters and dolphins, forged roughly between 1575 and 1600.

Gastro

Salt Cellars

These embellished containers didn’t just sit pretty on the table; they determined social standing.

Koliva, bearing the sign of the cross.

Gastro

Koliva

Drooling over this nutty spiced dessert is a heretical move.

Spruce Beer

Gastro

Spruce Beer

This Christmas tree elixir kept Vikings and Captain Cook alive.

Delicious vanilla snow cream, made from snow, vanilla extract, and condensed milk.

Sweets

Snow Cream

Ice cream made with fresh snow is a beloved Southern tradition.

Get your thrills with rosewater gum.

Sweets

Thrills Gum

Everyone says this vintage chewing gum tastes like soap, including the company.

Rolling ready strips of sugar on snow onto popsicle sticks.

Sweets

Sugar on Snow

Where maple sap flows, all one needs to make taffy is snow.

A double scoop of orange-flavored tiger tail ice cream striped with black licorice ribbons.

Sweets

Tiger Tail Ice Cream

This orange and black licorice flavor is kind of a big deal in Canada.

"The Corinth," one of many offerings in John Matthews's 1882 soda fountain catalog.

Gastro

Victorian Soda Fountains

Once upon a time, getting your carbonation fix required a visit to a monstrous machine.

Pineapple-banana-cherry-coconut-flavored Orbitz.

Drinks

Orbitz

This drink hasn't been produced since the late nineties, but still has a cult following.

Noni

Gastro

Noni

A fruit so foul, shamans use it to scare evil spirits.

A row of smiling meat.

Meats & Animal Products

Smiley Fritz

The meat that literally puts a smile on Australians' faces.

Sweet on the inside, floss on the outside.

Fruits & Vegetables

Hala Fruit

It looks like an exploding planet and tastes like sugarcane.

A pot of boiled nettles means savory greens and earthy tea.

Fruits & Vegetables

Stinging Nettles

Boil away this plant's poisonous hairs, and you're left with a tasty, spinach-like leaf.

Do you want some hundreds-and-thousands on your bread?

Sweets

Fairy Bread

A rainbow of flavor that harks back to childhood.

Step one: Bite off opposite corners of the biscuit.

Gastro

Tim Tam Slam

The world's least practical and most delicious edible straw.

Musk sticks have been likened to "the smell of old ladies at the bus stop ... ”

Sweets

Musk Sticks

This classic Australian candy looks like pink toothpaste and tastes like perfume.

Leatherwood honey isn't extremely sweet, but it is a bit spicy.

Ingredients & Condiments

Tasmanian Leatherwood Honey

Bees get a lift from helicopters in order to produce this spicy honey.

Sánguche de Potito

Prepared Foods

Sánguche de Potito

Cow rectum gives Chile's favorite game-day sandwich its addictive flavor.

Coquito nuts are found covered by the yellow layer shown on the right.

Fruits & Vegetables

Coquito Nuts

Chile is home to very, very small coconuts.

An array of fresh sea urchin.

Meats & Animal Products

Chilean Sea Urchin

Flip over these prickly treasures and find creamy, orange meat.

A cup of mote con huesillos pairs especially well with panoramic views of Santiago.

Drinks

Mote con Huesillos

A syrupy cup of peaches and wheat kernels is a customary reward after a Santiago mountain hike.

An ideal final product from a curanto.

Gastro

Curanto

Chile’s clambake may be the world's oldest recipe.

Bleeding rock.

Meats & Animal Products

Piure

Slice open this rock-like sea creature and you'll find tomato-red flesh that tastes great in Chilean ceviche.

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