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Dylan Young

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2016

I can bake dirt cake with mud frosting.

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Finger Lime

Fruits & Vegetables

Finger Lime

Slice one open for some citrus caviar.

Cinnamon cream cheese–filled King Cake.

Sweets

King Cake

The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.

Fried Chicken Gizzards

Prepared Foods

Fried Chicken Gizzards

These muscular organs are a crispy, chewy Southern favorite.

Cherimoya

Fruits & Vegetables

Cherimoya

Growing this sweet, tropical fruit sometimes requires careful hand-pollination with a paint brush.

The dumpling gets boiled inside a hickory leaf.

Prepared Foods

Cherokee Bean Bread

Bakers delicately wrap this corn-and-bean dumpling in hickory leaves before boiling.

Cheerwine, since 1917.

Drinks

Cheerwine

A World War I sugar shortage led an inventor to make a very cherry soda that looks like wine.

Kava

Sweets

Kava

The South Pacific's shrub-based drink causes relaxation, euphoria, and a tingling sensation.

It's It

Sweets

It's It

This classic San Franciscan ice cream sandwich is it, isn't it?

Shrubs have been used to preserve fruit for hundreds of years.

Drinks

Shrub

Before refrigeration, mixing fruit with sugar and vinegar extended its shelf life and made for a tasty drink.

Shoofly pie a la mode in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Sweets

Shoofly Pie

Mornings in Amish country once called for pie-cake and coffee.

A breaded scrapple and egg sandwich.

Prepared Foods

Scrapple

Pennsylvania's pork loaf embodies Amish resourcefulness.

Livermush

Prepared Foods

Livermush

North Carolina's “poor man’s pâté” is rich in flavor.

Muktuk

Meats & Animal Products

Muktuk

In Inuit cultures, using the whole whale is an act of respect, including consuming its blubber and skin.

The Christmas Pickle

Gastro

The Christmas Pickle

The holiday tradition of hiding an ornamental veggie.

Hoppin' John

Prepared Foods

Hoppin' John

This New Year's luck-bringer has a controversial contemporary taste.

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