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Kris McCracken

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I fall down a lot.
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Pork Floss

Ingredients & Condiments

Pork Floss

This cotton candy-like garnish is made of dried, candied meat.

Steamed Piggy Buns

Sweets

Steamed Piggy Buns

These adorable buns hide savory and sweet surprises.

Fujisan Bread

Prepared Foods

Fujisan Bread

Worlds collide in this braided bread that tastes like brioche and is meant to look like Mount Fuji.

Skal

Drinks

Skal

Meet Japan's first milk soda.

Ligurian Honey

Ingredients & Condiments

Ligurian Honey

This famous Italian honey is now produced only on an Australian island.

San Marzano Tomatoes

Fruits & Vegetables

San Marzano Tomatoes

Grown in the volcanic soil around Mt. Vesuvius, these tomatoes are one of only a couple varieties used in authentic Neapolitan pizza.

Hoppin' John

Prepared Foods

Hoppin' John

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

Revolution Mess at Vodka Revolution

Sweets

Eton Mess

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

Kofola

Drinks

Kofola

The sweet-and-sour soda almost disappeared with the collapse of communist rule in then-Czechoslovakia.

Jam Roly-Poly

Sweets

Jam Roly-Poly

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

Ready to play goon of fortune.

Gastro

Goon Sack

The least interesting thing Australians do with these giant, inflatable wine bags is drink from them.

A sausage is cheaper than getting fined for not voting.

Prepared Foods

Democracy Sausage

Come to vote, leave with a sausage.

Do you want some hundreds-and-thousands on your bread?

Sweets

Fairy Bread

A rainbow of flavor that harks back to childhood.

Leatherwood honey isn't extremely sweet, but it is a bit spicy.

Ingredients & Condiments

Tasmanian Leatherwood Honey

Bees get a lift from helicopters in order to produce this spicy honey.

Musk sticks have been likened to "the smell of old ladies at the bus stop ... ”

Sweets

Musk Sticks

This classic Australian candy looks like pink toothpaste and tastes like perfume.

The coastal wattle and its seeds.

Ingredients & Condiments

Wattleseed

This chocolate-flavored superfood falls from the Australian Acacia bush.

Chicken Salt

Ingredients & Condiments

Chicken Salt

Curry powder gives this savory seasoning its golden hue.

Finger Lime

Fruits & Vegetables

Finger Lime

Slice one open for some citrus caviar.

Sponge Candy

Sweets

Sponge Candy

This chocolate-coated confection's crisp, bubbly structure is well-suited to the even crisper Buffalo air.

Polkagris

Sweets

Polkagris

A small town is home to a beloved candy invented by one of Sweden's first female entrepreneurs.

Kouign-Amann

Sweets

Kouign-Amann

Some Bretons claim that their signature treat is the fattiest pastry in the world.

Pocari Sweat

Drinks

Pocari Sweat

A pharmaceutical company developed this beverage as drinkable IV solution.

Franzbrötchen

Sweets

Franzbrötchen

Local lore claims that German bakers made these pastries as an act of quiet rebellion during French occupation.

Bakewell Pudding

Sweets

Bakewell Pudding

A sweet and sticky accident from Derbyshire, England.

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