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Pink Pearl Apple

Fruits & Vegetables

Pink Pearl Apple

Take a bite out of this apple to reveal its pink interior.

Trenary Toast

Sweets

Trenary Toast

Finnish immigrants brought these crunchy, cinnamon-coated slices to Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Gold-capped for less hot, red-capped for spicy-hot.

Drinks

Blenheim Ginger Ale

The story of South Carolina's sweet-hot soda begins with a chance discovery during the Revolutionary War.

Pop's iconic signpost

Sweets

Pops' Root Beer Bread Pudding

This Route 66 institution goes the extra mile for soda-based indulgence.

Green Chile Lemonade

Drinks

Green Chile Lemonade

A roadside diner in Hatch, New Mexico, makes the most of the town's fiery crop.

Beaver Dam Pepper

Fruits & Vegetables

Beaver Dam Pepper

A pepper so good, Hungarian immigrants carried it with them when they came to Wisconsin.

Steam Beer

Drinks

Steam Beer

The unique style born out of the California Gold Rush blends the crispness of a lager with the flavor of an ale.

A popular Oaxacan flavor combination is prickly pear and burnt cream.

Sweets

Prickly Pear Sorbet

A watermelon-and-bubblegum-flavored treat courtesy of Mexico's favorite cactus.

Pickle Soft Serve

Sweets

Pickle Soft Serve

The briny, refreshing ice cream acts as a cooling chaser to spicy meals.

Fried Coke

Sweets

Fried Coke

Reach peak Americana with these deep-fried balls of Coca-Cola.

Pueblo Bread

Prepared Foods

Pueblo Bread

Baked in traditional adobe hornos, this bread is a staple of the American Southwest's Native Pueblo people.

Dill Pickle Pizza

Prepared Foods

Dill Pickle Pizza

This is one seriously polarizing pie.

Lanzi's Cashew Nut & Rice Crunch

Sweets

Lanzi's Cashew Nut & Rice Crunch

Candy makers recently resurrected this crispy Chicago confection from the graveyard of vintage sweets.

Redlove Apple

Fruits & Vegetables

Redlove Apple

Apples are red, blueberries are blue / But these pommes d’amour are red inside, too.

The grains of corn have been compared to gems or even jelly beans.

Fruits & Vegetables

Glass Gem Corn

This jewel-like corn became an internet sensation.

Salt Licorice Ice Cream

Sweets

Salt Licorice Ice Cream

A Finnish treat that's sweet, dark, and herbal.

Prickly Pear Vodka

Drinks

Prickly Pear Vodka

This small-batch spirit is distilled from cactus fruit.

A double scoop of orange-flavored tiger tail ice cream striped with black licorice ribbons.

Sweets

Tiger Tail Ice Cream

This orange and black licorice flavor is kind of a big deal in Canada.

The cellars where the monks age their liqueur.

Drinks

Green Chartreuse

Only two silent monks know all 130 plants that go into this herbal liqueur.

At the Gilroy Garlic Festival, the tips of garlic ice cream cones look like mini bulbs.

Sweets

Garlic Ice Cream

In Gilroy, California, garlic flavors everything, including desserts.

Cherry and blue raspberry lemonade Koolickles.

Prepared Foods

Koolickles

Dill pickles soaked in Kool-Aid? Oh, yeah!

They look like mini melons, but they taste like sour cucumbers.

Fruits & Vegetables

Cucamelon

Mexico's “mouse melon” is actually a tiny cucumber.

Haggis Spice Chocolate

Sweets

Haggis Spice Chocolate

A very non-vegan dish inspired this vegan chocolate.

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