Foods jstuber20 Wants to Try

The Virginia treat can “make even your deepest-dyed Yankee start complimenting you with a southern accent.”

This rare, distinguished North Carolina melon once fed presidents and kings.

North Carolina's “poor man’s pâté” is rich in flavor.

The Southern barbecue staple offers a sweet, tropical chaser to the main course.

This spiced jerky is a beloved snack in South Africa.

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

This New Year's luck-bringer has a controversial contemporary taste.

Before refrigeration, mixing fruit with sugar and vinegar extended its shelf life and made for a tasty drink.

The sweet and creamy “eggfruit” makes a great nog.

This layered pastry from Italy's Amalfi Coast may have origins in a 17th-century convent.

A fizzy, chocolate drink that harkens back to the days of Brooklyn soda fountains.

Beekeepers in the United States' southeastern swamplands are fighting to preserve this smooth, sweet delicacy.

This century-old New Orleans treat is still sold from a mule-drawn cart.

The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.

This smoky, spicy dish comes straight out of Cajun country.

A Cajun tradition that combines costumes, gumbo, and chasing chickens.

Recycling comes to dessert, with delicious outcomes.

In Houston, Vietnamese chefs offer a unique take on the “mud bug.”

This small-batch spirit is distilled from cactus fruit.

There's an elephant in the room when it comes to the world's most expensive brew.

These extra-cheesy potatoes resemble decadent fondue.

Cooks in the Southern United States still whip up this spicy, seductively sweet condiment from the 1950s.

This tasty Czech pastry is now a Texan tradition.

Kool-Aid and pickles make this Southwestern snow cone an unforgettable flavor bomb.