Foods bibliobecca Has Tried

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Foods I've tried

Foods this traveler has tried.

Necco Wafers

Sweets

Necco Wafers

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

An intimidating mountain of honey box toast.

Sweets

Honey Toast Box

Many spoons are needed to demolish one of these ice cream-stuffed bread loaves.

Cinnamon cream cheese–filled King Cake.

Sweets

King Cake

The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.

Savory Jell-O salads are also called aspics.

Prepared Foods

Jell-O Salad

Meat covered in gelatinous goo was once a classic American comfort food.

Boylan's Birch Beer

Drinks

Birch Beer

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

Cheerwine, since 1917.

Drinks

Cheerwine

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

The rolled interior of a yule log cake resembles wood grain.

Sweets

Yule Log Cake

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

Maror in three forms: a mixture of grated horseradish, beets, and sugar; endive lettuce; and horseradish root.

Gastro

Maror

The bitter herb served on Passover can be anything from horseradish to lettuce.