Prepared Foods
Deep-Fried Peanuts
You eat the shell, too.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Prepared Foods
You eat the shell, too.
Sweets
These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.
Ingredients & Condiments
It's so much more than just mayonnaise and ketchup.
Drinks
This cousin of root beer has a long history and a surprisingly minty taste.
Ingredients & Condiments
Pastrami fans will find the taste of this Canadian spice blend very familiar.
Drinks
One of the world's least-loved liquors calls Chicago home.
Sweets
The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.
Sweets
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a classic Midwestern treat!
Drinks
A fizzy, chocolate drink that harkens back to the days of Brooklyn soda fountains.
Sweets
In the 1970s, housewives stabbed their cakes and filled the holes with Jell-O.
Sweets
This cosmic-colored flavor is a Midwestern mystery.
Ingredients & Condiments
This spicy, sloppy meat mixture is thinner than chili, thicker than soup, and perfect atop “garbage.”
Sweets
Produced since 1847, these classic New England candies almost disappeared in 2018.
Gastro
These dairy-based sculptures have been state fair traditions for more than a century.
Gastro
The holiday tradition of hiding an ornamental veggie.
Sweets
This pineapple soft serve has a cult following at Disney theme parks.
Drinks
After thriving during Prohibition, this soda fountain staple was immortalized in a song by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Drinks
Grown only on the volcanic soil of Hawaiʻi’s Big Island, this coffee is known for its subtle, rich flavor and hordes of unscrupulous imitators.
Gastro
A New Year's Eve tradition of scarfing down 12 grapes for good luck.
Drinks
Only two silent monks know all 130 plants that go into this herbal liqueur.