Foods Findingbalance18 Has Tried

The gummies are taking over Utah.

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

Early 20th-century chefs used beaver musk to give sweets a vanilla-raspberry flavor.

Indiana's unofficial state pie was once a desperate measure.

This pancake pays tribute to one of Japan's favorite fish.

Most sushi fans have never tried this rare rhizome.

This traditional drink is made with a little-known variety of cacao.

This Midwestern dessert salad draws on both Scandinavian immigrant and local Ojibwe influences.

These portable pancake sheets have a crispy, hollow side and a sweet, doughy side.

Everything St. Louisans love about this local specialty is in the name.

The original energy bar.

Most people have never tasted the real thing.

The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.

From postwar dessert to sweet slice of Canadian identity.

These intricate stamps are relics from a time when dairy farmers beautifully branded their products.

These Bavarian cookies are also intricate works of art.

Invented in Scotland in the late 1800s, this syrupy “instant coffee” is now a beloved baking ingredient.

These sweet hands come with stories of triumph and brutality.

At some New Orleans weddings, bridesmaids predict their futures with these hidden charms.

Meat covered in gelatinous goo was once a classic American comfort food.

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

The beef fat–fried version that first caught Ray Kroc's eye is now extinct.

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

The world's least practical and most delicious edible straw.