Foods Ginauz Has Tried

The Japanese soda still comes in a marble-stoppered bottle from the 19th century.

A pharmaceutical company developed this beverage as drinkable IV solution.

A medieval food fight supposedly inspired this annual competition.

Italians make a bloody delicious chocolate pudding.

The Greek island's volcanic soil produces an intensely fragrant, sweet crop.

A citrusy cream soda with a hint of rust outsells Coca-Cola in Scotland.

Memphis adds a little Italian flair to its Southern repertoire.

The ultimate in nutty brews.

The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.

These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.

The original energy bar.

This "Fluid of Beef" fed an army and makes a hearty tea.

Donn Beach wrote the recipe for his famously potent cocktail in secret code.

A New Year's Eve tradition of scarfing down 12 grapes for good luck.

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

In the 1960s, Royal Air Force pilots made a startling discovery about their sweets.

Beneath its serpent-like skin lies pineapple-flavored flesh.