Ingredients & Condiments
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Once described as a “divine elixir,” this Southern sauce typically gets its spunk from coffee.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Ingredients & Condiments
Once described as a “divine elixir,” this Southern sauce typically gets its spunk from coffee.
Sweets
In the 1920s, confectioners thought the public wanted candy that looked like legumes—and they were right.
Meats & Animal Products
For a brief seasonal window in Spain, snails go from dreaded pests to coveted tapas.
Meats & Animal Products
The Galician cheese named for a nipple and brought to you by “blonde” cows.
Drinks
Before they're filled with brandy, these bottles get attached to trees so pears can grow inside.
Sweets
A crispy cookie from South Carolina, first introduced during the slave trade.
Drinks
Locals joke that you should be able to “float a horseshoe” on the thick brew.
Prepared Foods
Roadside vendors in the Deep South soften fresh goobers with bubbling brine.
Fruits & Vegetables
Relatively unknown outside South America, the tart, tomato-like fruit makes beloved juices and cocktails.
Sweets
This classic San Franciscan ice cream sandwich is it, isn't it?
Fruits & Vegetables
The Greek island's volcanic soil produces an intensely fragrant, sweet crop.
Gastro
The world's least practical and most delicious edible straw.
Sweets
In the 1960s, Royal Air Force pilots made a startling discovery about their sweets.
Fruits & Vegetables
Eating these unpredictable tapas is a game of spicy-pepper roulette.
Gastro
A fruit so foul, shamans use it to scare evil spirits.
Sweets
In the 1970s, housewives stabbed their cakes and filled the holes with Jell-O.
Sweets
The gummies are taking over Utah.
Drinks
Soda mixed with milk creates this frosty, creamy drink.
Prepared Foods
Spiced meat sauce meets spaghetti, shredded cheese, and beans in a Midwest cult favorite.
Prepared Foods
What look like noodles are actually delicious baby eels.
Sweets
Ice cream made with fresh snow is a beloved Southern tradition.
Sweets
A rainbow of flavor that harks back to childhood.
Ingredients & Condiments
This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.
Sweets
The marshmallow-based candy is named for a delicacy just out of the ancient Greeks' reach.