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Foods this traveler has tried.

Necco Wafers

Sweets

Necco Wafers

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

Soylent

Drinks

Soylent

One fantasy food's journey from sci-fi vegan steak to silver screen cannibalism to actual meal replacement.

Salep milk and a biscuit.

Drinks

Salep

A flour made from orchid roots makes for a popular Turkish drink.

Chocolate, pistachio, and vanilla dondurma.

Sweets

Dondurma

A rare orchid ingredient makes this ice cream stretchy and chewy.

An Asturian cider pour in action.

Gastro

Asturian Cider Pouring

A Spanish ritual meant to inject effervescence into a flat drink.

Medlars' shapes once inspired a lot of jokes.

Fruits & Vegetables

Medlars

The anus-shaped fruit tastes like cinnamon applesauce.

Real mortadella Bologna often contains pistachios.

Meats & Animal Products

Mortadella

Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.

Pork rillettes.

Prepared Foods

Rillettes

Spread this fat-poached meat on a crusty French loaf.

Fried Haggis

Prepared Foods

Fried Haggis

Scotland's beloved traditional dish is deep-fried and served up fast-food style.

Colcannon with scallions and bacon.

Prepared Foods

Colcannon

A hearty Irish staple that can tell your fortune.

Capezzoli di Venere

Sweets

Capezzoli di Venere

A decadent dessert whose Italian name translates to “nipples of Venus.”

Trashing

Gastro

Trashing

For some students at the University of Oxford, the end of the year means getting covered with eggs, shaving cream, and champagne.

Malasadas

Sweets

Malasadas

These Portuguese doughnuts have a fervent fanbase in Hawaii.

Spinach leaves topped with bonito flakes.

Meats & Animal Products

Bonito Flakes

Some fish can dance.

Kala is Hindi for "black," an apt descriptor for these inky fried balls.

Sweets

Kala Jamun

These dark fried milk balls are flecked with gold and dipped in scented syrup.

Grating coconuts using a coconut grater school in Tahiti, circa 1911.

Gastro

Coconut Grater Stool

You put the grater in the coconut...

A pot of boiled nettles means savory greens and earthy tea.

Fruits & Vegetables

Stinging Nettles

Boil away this plant's poisonous hairs, and you're left with a tasty, spinach-like leaf.

Pouring Moroccan Mint Tea

Gastro

Pouring Moroccan Mint Tea

A gesture of welcome and respect, Moroccan mint tea gets poured from high above the glass.

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