Foods GingerbreadKitten Has Tried

Sheffield’s secret sauce has a cult following.

This pink cake celebrates a long-ago football victory.

Essential to South Asian cuisine, the flavoring is illegal in some countries.

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

Remembering a time when designated celery vases were prized centerpieces.

It's so much more than just mayonnaise and ketchup.

This flat, silver spoon holds an exalted place in the mystery and ritual of absinthe drinking.

To release steam, Victorian bakers placed whimsical ceramics in their pastries.

This ancient token of betrothal lives on as a Valentine's Day gift in Wales.

The fire-roasted cheese is the medieval precursor to Welsh rarebit.

The seaweed tops toasts and enriches oatcakes in traditional Welsh breakfasts.

Not even Harry Potter could resist this whimsical British dessert.

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

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.

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

The sweet is naturally a bubblegum shade of pink.

This British temperance tonic is now a Ramadan favorite.

This summery parfait has mingled with British royals and literary elites.

This Canadian favorite is relatively unknown elsewhere.

Once steamed in shirt sleeves and pant legs, this sweet roll took on the nickname “dead man's leg.”