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Foods this traveler has tried.

A selection of deep-fried peanuts.

Prepared Foods

Deep-Fried Peanuts

You eat the shell, too.

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.

Behold, fry sauce!

Ingredients & Condiments

Fry Sauce

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

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.

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.

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!

With an extra splash of seltzer.

Drinks

Egg Cream

A fizzy, chocolate drink that harkens back to the days of Brooklyn soda fountains.

Poke Cake

Sweets

Poke Cake

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

Blue Moon Ice Cream

Sweets

Blue Moon Ice Cream

This cosmic-colored flavor is a Midwestern mystery.

Rochester-Style Hot Sauce

Ingredients & Condiments

Rochester-Style Hot Sauce

This spicy, sloppy meat mixture is thinner than chili, thicker than soup, and perfect atop “garbage.”

Necco Wafers

Sweets

Necco Wafers

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

Butter Cows

Gastro

Butter Cows

These dairy-based sculptures have been state fair traditions for more than a century.

The Christmas Pickle

Gastro

The Christmas Pickle

The holiday tradition of hiding an ornamental veggie.

Dole Whip

Sweets

Dole Whip

This pineapple soft serve has a cult following at Disney theme parks.

Green River Soda

Drinks

Green River Soda

After thriving during Prohibition, this soda fountain staple was immortalized in a song by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Beans drying at Kona Premium Coffee Company.

Drinks

Pure Kona Coffee

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.

Are you feeling lucky?

Gastro

Twelve Grapes

A New Year's Eve tradition of scarfing down 12 grapes for good luck.

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.

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