Foods anjohnst Has Tried

These Polish pre-Lent doughnuts have taken on a life (and an eating contest) of their own in the United States.

This traditional Southern pairing captures sweet and salty in a single bottle.

This dark, rare fruit lasts a very long time.

This retro sandwich filling was once a convenient, comforting funeral food.

This Canadian favorite is relatively unknown elsewhere.

The holiday tradition of hiding an ornamental veggie.

The Detroit favorite is one of the oldest sodas in the United States.

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

Sweet sauce tops off buttermilk biscuits in the Appalachian and Ozark mountains.

One southern Indiana town cooks up this unique, time-honored dessert every September.

This Southern church group favorite isn't Slavic at all.

Produced since 1847, these classic New England candies almost disappeared in 2018.

This beef patty oozes cheese from within.

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

A crispy cookie from South Carolina, first introduced during the slave trade.

This bird comes with a brew inside.

North Carolina's “poor man’s pâté” is rich in flavor.

Pennsylvania's pork loaf embodies Amish resourcefulness.

A bar sharing a basement with a pickle place led to an unusual drink.

The cornmeal patty that Rhode Islanders eat morning, noon, and night.

A World War I sugar shortage led an inventor to make a very cherry soda that looks like wine.

It's so much more than just mayonnaise and ketchup.

These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.

This bright green cocktail doubles as dessert.