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Real mortadella Bologna often contains pistachios.

Meats & Animal Products

Mortadella

Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.

Lutefisk

Prepared Foods

Lutefisk

The lye-soaked fish recipe created by Vikings is now a holiday favorite at Midwestern church dinners.

Boylan's Birch Beer

Drinks

Birch Beer

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

Even spice giant McCormick is in on the steak spice game.

Ingredients & Condiments

Montreal Steak Spice

Pastrami fans will find the taste of this Canadian spice blend very familiar.

The molten cheese center cooks the egg and melts the butter.

Prepared Foods

Adjaruli Khachapuri

Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.

The frosting on Yule log cakes is combed to resemble bark.

Sweets

Yule Log Cake

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

Tofu, scallion, and narutomaki soup.

Meats & Animal Products

Narutomaki

It's a whirlpool, it's an emoji, it's a fishcake!

Inside a bottle, far away from your taste buds, Malört seems like any other drink.

Drinks

Jeppson's Malört

One of the world's least-loved liquors calls Chicago home.

A Grasshopper ice cream cocktail.

Drinks

Grasshopper

This bright green cocktail doubles as dessert.

Cinnamon cream cheese–filled King Cake.

Sweets

King Cake

The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.

Each branch grows radial branches from its head.

Gastro

Swizzle Sticks

These natural cocktail stirrers sprout from the Caribbean swizzlestick tree.

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.

Eye candy and actual candy.

Sweets

Churchkhela

These delicious strands of juice-coated nuts look like colorful candlesticks.

A pile of crispy borsok.

Gastro

Borsok

Kyrgyzstan’s fried dough marks special occasions and "feeds" the dead.

Stuffed birds aren't just for Thanksgiving.

Prepared Foods

Hmong Stuffed Chicken Wings

Next-level egg rolls are wrapped in an entire chicken wing.

Morkovcha

Prepared Foods

Morkovcha

The Soviet-Korean carrot salad is a sweet-and-sour testament to a diaspora's resilience.

Stinking Bishop

Meats & Animal Products

Stinking Bishop

The story of Britain's smelliest cheese involves monks, drunks, and endangered cows.

Kurt

Meats & Animal Products

Kurt

These cheese balls have fueled Central Asian nomads for centuries.

Fermented horse milk is called airag in Mongolia.

Drinks

Kumis

Infants and Genghis Khan enjoyed this fermented mare's milk.

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