Foods arianalbear Wants to Try

These absorbent stalks make perfect flavor sponges in Vietnamese cuisine.

Tiết canh is a sour, cool, and gelatinous breakfast.

An extract made from a rare water bug's pheromones makes for unforgettably pungent sauces in North Vietnam.

Portugal's volcanic archipelago is home to addictively sweet and chewy muffins.

These seashell-shaped, yolk-filled candies are a symbol of Portugal's canal-lined city.

These buns from South Africa's Cape Winelands are traditionally leavened with the must used to make wine.

In South Africa, women transform a tart fruit into a celebrated sour brew.

This fruit makes tattoos, antibiotics, and dessert.

This fruit either burns your throat or tastes like a tropical medley.

Inside a hard, yellow shell lies a sweet, black spread.

The most venerated cheese curl in the world. 

This sweet, cheese-filled Norwegian flatbread keeps Nordlanders nourished during the long winter.

The world's northernmost commercial brewery makes beer with water from a glacier.

Norway's notorious fermented trout is a tangy Christmas tradition.

Mexico's “mouse melon” is actually a tiny cucumber.

Northern Mexico's lesser-known spirit gets a snake-based infusion.

The story of South Carolina's sweet-hot soda begins with a chance discovery during the Revolutionary War.

This protected German fruit has its own representative queen.

Floridians baked this tangy treat before key lime took over the state's pie scene.

Typically made with pork, bologna gets the all-beef treatment in a tiny Ohio town.

These dairy-based sculptures have been state fair traditions for more than a century.

From humble meat-hybrid to Cincinnati favorite.

This celebration of the largest edible fruit native to the United States features plenty of “pawpawpular” foods.

In this tangy treat, no part of the citrus is left behind.