Foods marissaweekend Has Tried

This Mexican candy reimagines a spaghetti dinner with spicy-sour gummy noodles and tamarind sauce.

This mushroom tastes just like chicken.

The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a classic Midwestern treat!

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

The gummies are taking over Utah.

Spiced meat sauce meets spaghetti, shredded cheese, and beans in a Midwest cult favorite.

In the 1970s, housewives stabbed their cakes and filled the holes with Jell-O.

Fluffy, crispy, and large enough to share, it's no ordinary pancake.

A watermelon-and-bubblegum-flavored treat courtesy of Mexico's favorite cactus.

Indiana's unofficial state pie was once a desperate measure.

The briny, refreshing ice cream acts as a cooling chaser to spicy meals.

Roadside vendors in the Deep South soften fresh goobers with bubbling brine.

This beloved piece of Mexican-American fusion coats a bacon-wrapped dog in beans, mayo, and jalapeño salsa.

This cosmic-colored flavor is a Midwestern mystery.

In the 1920s, confectioners thought the public wanted candy that looked like legumes—and they were right.

Bacteria that cause gangrene are the magic ingredient in this cheese-scented loaf.

The Mesoamerican mortar and pestle has been made, and used, the same way for thousands of years.

No rodents were harmed in the making of this fried Canadian treat.

Battered and fried testicles make use of a cattle-country surplus.

Cow eyes make a juicy and gelatinous taco filling.

Produced since 1847, these classic New England candies almost disappeared in 2018.

Slurp this sweet and savory summer treat from a tamarind-and-chili-paste-coated straw.

This traditional Southern pairing captures sweet and salty in a single bottle.