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A cudighi sandwich from Lawry's Pasty Shop.

Prepared Foods

Cudighi

Sandwiches stuffed with wine-and-cinnamon-spiced sausage have been a specialty of Michigan's Upper Peninsula since 1936.

Volkswagen Originalteil

Prepared Foods

Volkswagen Originalteil

The German auto maker’s “part no. 199 398 500 A” is a pack of sausages.

Kouign-Amann

Sweets

Kouign-Amann

Some Bretons claim that their signature treat is the fattiest pastry in the world.

An agouti roasts over a modern-day boucan.

Gastro

Boucan

This grill defined a new breed of pirates.

Meteorite Wine at Tagua Tagua Observatory

Drinks

Meteorite Wine at Tagua Tagua Observatory

This Cabernet Sauvignon is out of this world.

Ice cream beans really do taste like vanilla ice cream.

Ingredients & Condiments

Ice Cream Bean

The South American bean that looks like cotton candy and tastes like ice cream.

Chocolate santafereño is the perfect combination of sweet and salty.

Drinks

Chocolate Santafereño

This steamy concoction features a salty, melted surprise at the bottom of the mug: white cheese.

Don't call it chocolate.

Fruits & Vegetables

Cupuaçu

This Brazilian fruit is cacao's lesser-known, tangy cousin.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Venezuela.

Prepared Foods

Pan de Jamón

In Venezuela, traditional Christmas bread marries ham, raisins, and olives.

The first sign a rollinia has started to age: blackened spikes.

Fruits & Vegetables

Rollinia

Brazil's spiky yellow fruit has lemon meringue–flavored insides.

Tonka beans look a bit like raisins.

Ingredients & Condiments

Tonka Beans

A legume so loved, it’s caused a “fever” in France and made Americans break laws.

Jaboticaba winds its way around tree trunks.

Fruits & Vegetables

Jaboticaba

The Brazilian tree gets covered by its tart purple fruit.

Purén White Strawberry

Fruits & Vegetables

Purén White Strawberry

This rare berry grows only in two Chilean towns.

Romeu e Julieta

Sweets

Romeu e Julieta

There's nothing tragic about this Brazilian pairing of salty, white cheese and guava paste.

Lúcuma

Fruits & Vegetables

Lúcuma

This butterscotch-flavored fruit has a way with desserts.

King Kong

Sweets

King Kong

The town of Lambayeque, Peru, specializes in a seven-layered sweet named for Hollywood's towering ape.

Amarula Brigadeiro

Sweets

Amarula Brigadeiro

Pair a Brazilian confection with a sweet South African liqueur, and a unique treat is born.

Pachamanca

Gastro

Pachamanca

In Peru, layers of potatoes, meat, and sweets are steamed in a pit filled with volcanic rocks.

Picarones

Sweets

Picarones

The sweet potato donuts are an integral part of the Afro-Peruvian community.

Pretty please with a walnut on top.

Sweets

Afghan Biscuits

These beloved New Zealand cookies have a mysterious past.

Cornmeal johnnycakes topped with honey.

Prepared Foods

Johnnycakes

The cornmeal patty that Rhode Islanders eat morning, noon, and night.

Berger cookies on Berger cookies.

Sweets

Berger Cookies

They're a Baltimore-specific guilty pleasure.

A box of Maine's signature, tiny blueberries.

Fruits & Vegetables

Maine Wild Blueberries

The sweet, tiny wild berries are only available for two months each year.

Homemade Needham's at Captain Sawyer's Bed and Breakfast in Boothbay Harbor, Maine.

Sweets

Needhams

A candy made with chocolate, coconut and ... mashed potatoes?

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