Foods Jill13 Has Tried

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

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

A fragrant, difficult-to-harvest delicacy from the Scottish moorlands.

These inky cloves have aged like a fine wine.

Sheffield’s secret sauce has a cult following.

You can roast your potatoes in this rendered fat, or just spread it on bread and eat it cold.

Invented in Scotland in the late 1800s, this syrupy “instant coffee” is now a beloved baking ingredient.

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

This “brown cheese” tastes like caramel.

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

The real "Canadian bacon" comes rolled in cornmeal.

Not even Harry Potter could resist this whimsical British dessert.

The original energy bar.

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

The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.

From postwar dessert to sweet slice of Canadian identity.

This traditional dessert commemorates the country's sweet taste of victory over the French emperor in 1812.

Like the famed composer himself, this Mozart-homage bonbon originated in Salzburg, Austria.

In Yorkshire, the holidays usher in this salty-sweet combo.

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

A sweet and sticky accident from Derbyshire, England.

Icelanders make a very, very good dog.

Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.

A hangover cure that spans classes and centuries.