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Fried Chicken Gizzards

Prepared Foods

Fried Chicken Gizzards

These muscular organs are a crispy, chewy Southern favorite.

Chile Cobanero

Ingredients & Condiments

Chile Cobanero

This signature pepper has been a hot commodity since the Maya era.

Jezebel sauce over cream cheese.

Ingredients & Condiments

Jezebel Sauce

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

Fried Onion Burgers

Prepared Foods

Fried Onion Burgers

A Depression-era patty filler paved the way for an Oklahoma favorite.

Cornmeal johnnycakes topped with honey.

Prepared Foods

Johnnycakes

The cornmeal patty that Rhode Islanders eat morning, noon, and night.

A basket containing nine pounds of harvested chaga.

Gastro

Chaga Mushroom

This coffee additive and killer of trees has a reputation as a medical marvel.

Rows on rows of Autocrat, a coffee syrup made by a top producer of the stuff.

Drinks

Coffee Milk

Would you like some coffee flavor with your milk?

Mojama

Meats & Animal Products

Mojama

Spain's salt-cured tuna is known as “the ham of the sea.”

Real Wasabi

Ingredients & Condiments

Real Wasabi

Most sushi fans have never tried this rare rhizome.

Potato wedge "nails" have been replaced by crinkle cut fries in many newer Horseshoes.

Prepared Foods

The Horseshoe

The original “nails” have disappeared from this cheese-smothered, horseshoe-shaped ham dish.

Montebore

Meats & Animal Products

Montebore

By the 21st century, one lone woman held the recipe for what might have been da Vinci’s cheese of choice.

Fried Haggis

Prepared Foods

Fried Haggis

Scotland's beloved traditional dish is deep-fried and served up fast-food style.

Heather Honey

Ingredients & Condiments

Heather Honey

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

Seaweed Ale

Drinks

Seaweed Ale

The ocean-scented brew pays homage to an old Scottish style.

Irn-Bru

Drinks

Irn-Bru

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

Colcannon with scallions and bacon.

Prepared Foods

Colcannon

A hearty Irish staple that can tell your fortune.

Arbroath Smokie

Meats & Animal Products

Arbroath Smokie

Lauded by poets, a Scottish town's hot-smoked haddock may date back to the Vikings.

Crowdie

Meats & Animal Products

Crowdie

This ancient, spreadable cheese is disappearing from Scottish cuisine.

Shad strapped to their planks by bacon seat belts.

Gastro

Shad Bake

Connecticut's state fish is cooked using a special “planking” technique.

A gravy train becomes a gravy flood.

Prepared Foods

Chow Mein Sandwich

Crispy noodles meet a sea of gravy inside a hamburger bun.

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