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Buffalo Rock Ginger Ale

Drinks

Buffalo Rock Ginger Ale

Birmingham's sinus-clearing soda was a popular way to enhance bootlegged hooch during Prohibition.

The making of a Fluffernutter.

Prepared Foods

The Fluffernutter

A completely delicious, nearly nutrient-free sandwich beloved by generations of New Englanders.

In-shell littleneck clams accentuate this clam pie.

Prepared Foods

Clam Apizza

New Haven's signature pie combines staples from Rhode Island and Naples.

Boylan's Birch Beer

Drinks

Birch Beer

This cousin of root beer has a long history and a surprisingly minty taste.

In Maine, Allen's Coffee Brandy is more than twice as popular as the next-most popular spirit.

Drinks

Allen's Coffee Brandy

Maine's top-selling spirit that almost no one else drinks.

Shoofly pie a la mode in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Sweets

Shoofly Pie

Mornings in Amish country once called for pie-cake and coffee.

Quoit Club Punch

Drinks

Quoit Club Punch

Drinkers downed this serious cocktail while hurling heavy rings at posts in the 18th century.

Cincinnati Chili

Prepared Foods

Cincinnati Chili

Spiced meat sauce meets spaghetti, shredded cheese, and beans in a Midwest cult favorite.

Rows on rows of Autocrat, a coffee syrup made by a top producer of the stuff.

Drinks

Coffee Milk

Would you like some coffee flavor with your milk?

Smith Island Cake

Prepared Foods

Smith Island Cake

This dessert island is known for its refined layer cakes.

Maine Red Snappers hanging at Bean's Meats.

Prepared Foods

Red Snappers

The reddest of the red meat.

Southern Butter Rolls

Sweets

Southern Butter Rolls

The sweet, spiraled pastries were once a staple on cold days in the American South.

A breaded scrapple and egg sandwich.

Prepared Foods

Scrapple

Pennsylvania's pork loaf embodies Amish resourcefulness.

Potato Doughnuts

Sweets

Potato Doughnuts

The first American doughnut chain used spuds.

Boiled Green Peanuts

Prepared Foods

Boiled Green Peanuts

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

Dole Whip

Sweets

Dole Whip

This pineapple soft serve has a cult following at Disney theme parks.

Datil Pepper

Ingredients & Condiments

Datil Pepper

Minorcans spiced up the food scene in St. Augustine with this fiery crop.

A homemade version made in a can and steamed in a crock pot.

Prepared Foods

Canned Bread

A New England tradition of steaming bread in coffee tins gave rise to this niche snack.

Cheerwine, since 1917.

Drinks

Cheerwine

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

Peanut pie at the Virginia Diner.

Sweets

Peanut Pie

The Virginia treat can “make even your deepest-dyed Yankee start complimenting you with a southern accent.”

Homemade Needham's at Captain Sawyer's Bed and Breakfast in Boothbay Harbor, Maine.

Sweets

Needhams

A candy made with chocolate, coconut and ... mashed potatoes?

"The kid's got moxie!"

Drinks

Moxie

This cure-all-turned-soda once outsold Coca-Cola.

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