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Faggots

Prepared Foods

Faggots

There's much more to these offal-based meatballs than the unfortunate double meaning of their name.

Beef Dripping

Ingredients & Condiments

Beef Dripping

You can roast your potatoes in this rendered fat, or just spread it on bread and eat it cold.

Some revelers dress as the "Green Man," a folkloric figure.

Gastro

Wassailing

This wintertime serenade for apple trees also involves firing rifles and drinking cider.

Christmas Cake and Cheese

Sweets

Christmas Cake and Cheese

In Yorkshire, the holidays usher in this salty-sweet combo.

Papier mâché sea dragons by the artists at Total Pap.

Food Festivals

Whitstable Oyster Festival

Every July, a seaside town pays homage to its local mollusks with eating contests, a marine-themed parade, and plenty of fresh seafood.

Grimsby Smoked Fish

Meats & Animal Products

Grimsby Smoked Fish

Five producers in one English seaside town use historic chimneys to cold-smoke salmon and haddock overnight.

Some wassail ready to be sipped.

Drinks

Wassail

This spiced, warming drink may have helped broker peace between warring tribes.

Hevva Cake

Sweets

Hevva Cake

The simple sweets welcomed Cornish fishermen after they returned with their catch.

Pie, mash, and eel in parsley sauce.

Meats & Animal Products

Jellied Eels

No traditional East Ender meal is complete without pie, mashed potatoes, and gelatinous river creatures.

Bath Spa Water

Drinks

Bath Spa Water

Make like Jane Austen and sip from the fountain in this famed Pump Room.

Puzzle Jugs

Gastro

Puzzle Jugs

These tricky pitchers turned pouring into a complex drinking game.

Lindisfarne Mead

Drinks

Lindisfarne Mead

The best place to find the “nectar of the gods” is Holy Island.

An array of licorice allsorts, including Pontefract cakes, at the festival.

Food Festivals

Pontefract Liquorice Festival

At this annual event, the bitter sweet enhances everything from sausages to pies to clothing.

Clarified milk punch made from Hennessy, plum liqueur, hazelnut liqueur, sherry, orgeat, lemon, orange, poppy, cinnamon, vanilla, and coffee.

Drinks

Clarified Milk Punch

Just so we’re clear, there is actually milk in this old English punch.

La Tomatina

Food Festivals

La Tomatina

After the giant food fight is over, fire trucks are needed to hose down the sauce-filled streets.

Angulas with garlic and shrimp.

Prepared Foods

Angulas

What look like noodles are actually delicious baby eels.

Gooseneck barnacles are called "percebes" in Spanish.

Meats & Animal Products

Gooseneck Barnacles

These expensive and dangerous-to-harvest barnacles were once confused for goose eggs.

Ortiguillas de mar, with sea salt.

Prepared Foods

Fried Sea Anemone

On the Andalusian coast, once-deadly tentacles become crispy delicacies.

Tocinillo de Cielo

Sweets

Tocinillo de Cielo

This heavenly custard was born from the leftovers of sherry winemaking.

Mojama

Meats & Animal Products

Mojama

Spain's salt-cured tuna is known as “the ham of the sea.”

Camino de Santiago Wine Fountain

Drinks

Camino de Santiago Wine Fountain

Pilgrims trekking across Spain can stop for free wine at the Monasterio de Irache.

Tulip Vodka

Drinks

Tulip Vodka

Flower bulbs are the main ingredient of this quintessentially Dutch spirit.

Fugu

Meats & Animal Products

Fugu

The toxic pufferfish steals hearts, despite its ability to stop them.

Nattō

Prepared Foods

Nattō

These pungent fermented soybeans are coated in probiotic slime.

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