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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.

All hail Cel-Ray.

Drinks

Cel-Ray

Quench your thirst with the refreshing taste of celery soda.

Taylor ham, a vegetable omelet, and cheese on a kayser roll.

Meats & Animal Products

Pork Roll

Don't call the crown jewel of New Jersey "Canadian bacon."

Even spice giant McCormick is in on the steak spice game.

Ingredients & Condiments

Montreal Steak Spice

Pastrami fans will find the taste of this Canadian spice blend very familiar.

Behold, fry sauce!

Ingredients & Condiments

Fry Sauce

It's so much more than just mayonnaise and ketchup.

The frosting on Yule log cakes is combed to resemble bark.

Sweets

Yule Log Cake

These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.

Kava

Sweets

Kava

The South Pacific's shrub-based drink causes relaxation, euphoria, and a tingling sensation.

A box of Maine's signature, tiny blueberries.

Fruits & Vegetables

Maine Wild Blueberries

The sweet, tiny wild berries are only available for two months each year.

A beachside bounty from a clambake.

Gastro

Clambake

An ancient cooking method still produces delicious, beachside feasts.

Switchel is also called haymaker's punch and harvest beer.

Drinks

Switchel

Colonial Gatorade made from vinegar and molasses is back in style.

Gooseneck barnacles are called "percebes" in Spanish.

Meats & Animal Products

Gooseneck Barnacles

These expensive and dangerous-to-harvest barnacles were once confused for goose eggs.

Pineapple-banana-cherry-coconut-flavored Orbitz.

Drinks

Orbitz

This drink hasn't been produced since the late nineties, but still has a cult following.

A pot of boiled nettles means savory greens and earthy tea.

Fruits & Vegetables

Stinging Nettles

Boil away this plant's poisonous hairs, and you're left with a tasty, spinach-like leaf.

The many "shelves" of Laetiporus sulphureus.

Ingredients & Condiments

Chicken of the Woods

This mushroom tastes just like chicken.

They look like mini melons, but they taste like sour cucumbers.

Fruits & Vegetables

Cucamelon

Mexico's “mouse melon” is actually a tiny cucumber.

With an extra splash of seltzer.

Drinks

Egg Cream

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

Some mozzarella "logs" for dipping in melba.

Prepared Foods

Mozzarella Sticks with Melba Sauce

Only in Albany do people dip in raspberry sauce.

Espresso Coffee Soda

Drinks

Espresso Coffee Soda

A dark soda with a dark history.

Boiled Green Peanuts

Prepared Foods

Boiled Green Peanuts

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

Boston Cooler

Drinks

Boston Cooler

Detroit's signature soda shake blends Vernors ginger ale with vanilla ice cream.

A breaded scrapple and egg sandwich.

Prepared Foods

Scrapple

Pennsylvania's pork loaf embodies Amish resourcefulness.

Boston Baked Beans

Sweets

Boston Baked Beans

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

Rocky Mountain Oysters

Prepared Foods

Rocky Mountain Oysters

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

Necco Wafers

Sweets

Necco Wafers

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

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