Foods jackgrafik Has Tried

Some Sicilians start their day with this decadent combination.

This pink cake celebrates a long-ago football victory.

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

It's a whirlpool, it's an emoji, it's a fishcake!

Some fish can dance.

These salted, pickled plums are an ancient Japanese hangover cure.

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

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

Eating these unpredictable tapas is a game of spicy-pepper roulette.

Baking this dual-layered bread is a difficult art.

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

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

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.

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

Locals joke that you should be able to “float a horseshoe” on the thick brew.

The sweet is naturally a bubblegum shade of pink.

A wartime rice scarcity made this versatile pancake a Japanese staple.

Spread this fat-poached meat on a crusty French loaf.

The unique style born out of the California Gold Rush blends the crispness of a lager with the flavor of an ale.

The washed and dried root of the licorice plant was once a popular natural “candy.”

This British temperance tonic is now a Ramadan favorite.

This powder proved essential to Arctic exploration, war, and the ice cream parlor.