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Coffee Crisp

Sweets

Coffee Crisp

This candy rarely ventures beyond Canada's borders.

Peameal Bacon

Meats & Animal Products

Peameal Bacon

The real "Canadian bacon" comes rolled in cornmeal.

Leatherwood honey isn't extremely sweet, but it is a bit spicy.

Ingredients & Condiments

Tasmanian Leatherwood Honey

Bees get a lift from helicopters in order to produce this spicy honey.

A few dashes are sufficient.

Ingredients & Condiments

Maggi Seasoning

This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.

The french fry fork in action.

Gastro

Nathan’s Famous French Fry Fork

The hot dog chain’s charming “bi-dent” picks up potatoes with ease.

The French wedding cake.

Sweets

Croquembouche

This French wedding cake is a caramel-wrapped tower of pastry balls.

Clootie Dumpling

Sweets

Clootie Dumpling

This sweet Scottish pudding gets boiled in a bag for special occasions.

If you've been good, you can have a chocolate fish.

Sweets

Chocolate Fish

The sweet Kiwi treat that represents a token reward.

Chicken Salt

Ingredients & Condiments

Chicken Salt

Curry powder gives this savory seasoning its golden hue.

Broasted Chicken

Prepared Foods

Broasted Chicken

This style of fried chicken is pressure-cooked while it fries.

Eccles Cake

Sweets

Eccles Cake

The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.

Kava

Sweets

Kava

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

A collector's set of ice cream forks.

Gastro

Ice Cream Fork

A relic from the era of highly specialized cutlery.

A row of smiling meat.

Meats & Animal Products

Smiley Fritz

The meat that literally puts a smile on Australians' faces.

Ready to play goon of fortune.

Gastro

Goon Sack

The least interesting thing Australians do with these giant, inflatable wine bags is drink from them.

Meet F.R.E.D.

Gastro

Field Ration Eating Device

The tool, found in Australian military ration packs, is considered handy by some and awful by others.

A sausage is cheaper than getting fined for not voting.

Prepared Foods

Democracy Sausage

Come to vote, leave with a sausage.

Musk sticks have been likened to "the smell of old ladies at the bus stop ... ”

Sweets

Musk Sticks

This classic Australian candy looks like pink toothpaste and tastes like perfume.

Step one: Bite off opposite corners of the biscuit.

Gastro

Tim Tam Slam

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

Do you want some hundreds-and-thousands on your bread?

Sweets

Fairy Bread

A rainbow of flavor that harks back to childhood.

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