Foods IndefiniteDetour Has Tried

Savory meat jelly with a dollop of spicy mustard is a customary New Year's dish in Russia.

An unlikely pairing of honeycomb toffee and purple seaweed.

The fiery Calabrian meat spread also goes by "red Nutella" and "poor man's Viagra."

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

The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.

In Lisbon, tiny, standing-room-only bars specialize in this sour cherry liqueur.

The aroma of this mulled wine has been compared to “a warmed-up bowl of Froot Loops.”

England's take on the Mexican meal wraps a Yorkshire pudding around meaty fillings.

The same grass that feeds massive European bison adds notes of vanilla and lavender to this unique Polish vodka.

The pungent, wind-dried white fish is a traditional Icelandic food.

A popular Slovenian fast-food joint doesn't specialize in beef.

This Hungarian fried dough can make a rich breakfast or trusty hangover cure.

The decadent pastry almost outshines the Slovenian lake it's named for.

Finish all your Latvian peas for good luck in the New Year.

There's a legend that this Latvian herbal liqueur saved an ailing Catherine the Great.

The fairest and rarest of them all.

The fiery fruit brandy of the Balkans.

This spiraled Balkan pastry requires painstakingly rolling dough into silky sheets.

Before they're filled with brandy, these bottles get attached to trees so pears can grow inside.

The first thing eaten off the Ark.

The briny “asparagus of the sea” grows along coasts around the world.

The traditional Chinese medicine can also be deadly.

In Zanzibar, Swahili and Indian cuisine swirl together in a hearty, complex stew.

This “hodgepodge” of affordable ingredients fueled local laborers during the Industrial Revolution.