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Behold, fry sauce!

Ingredients & Condiments

Fry Sauce

It's so much more than just mayonnaise and ketchup.

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.

Pineapple-banana-cherry-coconut-flavored Orbitz.

Drinks

Orbitz

This drink hasn't been produced since the late nineties, but still has a cult following.

Cinnamon cream cheese–filled King Cake.

Sweets

King Cake

The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.

Double scooperman.

Sweets

Superman Ice Cream

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a classic Midwestern treat!

Cincinnati Chili

Prepared Foods

Cincinnati Chili

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

St. Louis-Style Pizza

Prepared Foods

St. Louis-Style Pizza

With extra-gooey cheese and a cracker-thin crust, some say it's more like nachos.

Poke Cake

Sweets

Poke Cake

In the 1970s, housewives stabbed their cakes and filled the holes with Jell-O.

Nanaimo Bar

Sweets

Nanaimo Bar

From postwar dessert to sweet slice of Canadian identity.

Blue Moon Ice Cream

Sweets

Blue Moon Ice Cream

This cosmic-colored flavor is a Midwestern mystery.

Molcajete

Gastro

Molcajete

The Mesoamerican mortar and pestle has been made, and used, the same way for thousands of years.

Boston Baked Beans

Sweets

Boston Baked Beans

In the 1920s, confectioners thought the public wanted candy that looked like legumes—and they were right.

Broasted Chicken

Prepared Foods

Broasted Chicken

This style of fried chicken is pressure-cooked while it fries.

Necco Wafers

Sweets

Necco Wafers

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

Coffee Crisp

Sweets

Coffee Crisp

This candy rarely ventures beyond Canada's borders.

The Christmas Pickle

Gastro

The Christmas Pickle

The holiday tradition of hiding an ornamental veggie.

City Chicken

Meats & Animal Products

City Chicken

The Midwestern mock-poultry classic is fading away.

Boston Cooler

Drinks

Boston Cooler

Detroit's signature soda shake blends Vernors ginger ale with vanilla ice cream.

Rock N' Rye Pop

Drinks

Rock N' Rye Pop

A Prohibition-era flavor from a soda company beloved by Detroiters and Juggalos.

 Vernors Ginger Soda

Drinks

Vernors Ginger Soda

The Detroit favorite is one of the oldest sodas in the United States.

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