Foods Meg Neal Wants to Try

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Foods I want to try

Foods this traveler wants to try.

Have your cake and eat it, too.

Sweets

Atomic Cake

This Chicago specialty stacks three cakes into one monster dessert.

Some blues get you down, some blues get you up.

Ingredients & Condiments

Blue-Green Algae

The Aztecs used it to make protein-rich tortillas; we use it to make unicorn lattes.

Snickers salad, drizzled with caramel.

Prepared Foods

Snickers Salad

Made of candy and Cool Whip, this “salad” is a mainstay at Midwestern potlucks.

The peyote cactus is cute as a button.

Gastro

Peyote

Mexican and American Indians have a long history with this powerful cactus.

Two's a party, three's still a party.

Gastro

Bhang

To celebrate the Holi festival, many Indians raise a glass of cannabis-infused milk.

Tibetan tea is made with tea, yak butter, and salt.

Drinks

Yak Butter Tea

It's the fat-fueled energy drink of the Tibetan Plateau.

The edible contents of the durian have been compared to custard.

Fruits & Vegetables

Durian

The fruit so pungent it's banned from trains, hotels, and public places.

Sumalak, also known as samanu, is one of the seven traditional dishes of Nowruz.

Gastro

Sumalak

A sweet and simple pudding traditionally made in a joyous, spring ritual.

Kratom tea with powder and whisk in the background.

Gastro

Kratom Tea

This Southeast Asian leaf can wake you up, knock you out, and subdue heroin withdrawal.

Sometimes the entire tree is cut down to harvest the sap.

Drinks

Palm Wine

It takes only two hours for palm sap to become palm wine.

Slices of fresh hverabrauð.

Prepared Foods

Hverabrauð

Iceland's thick, chewy "hot spring bread" is just like regular rye bread, with one big difference.

The French wedding cake.

Sweets

Croquembouche

This French wedding cake is a caramel-wrapped tower of pastry balls.

If you've been good, you can have a chocolate fish.

Sweets

Chocolate Fish

The sweet Kiwi treat that represents a token reward.