Foods Obscuro Has Tried

Portugal's volcanic archipelago is home to addictively sweet and chewy muffins.

Meet Sweden's savory “sandwich cake.”

The fragrant, intricately spiced street food is a medina specialty.

This tangy fruit flavors everything from ice cream to cocktails.

Historians debate whether this dish actually originated with Italian sex workers.

These Portuguese doughnuts have a fervent fanbase in Hawaii.

This Swedish holiday soda outsells Coca-Cola during the Christmas season.

In Finland, you sizzle along with your meal.

Norway's notorious fermented trout is a tangy Christmas tradition.

This “brown cheese” tastes like caramel.

The lye-soaked fish recipe created by Vikings is now a holiday favorite at Midwestern church dinners.

For a brief seasonal window in Spain, snails go from dreaded pests to coveted tapas.

The Galician cheese named for a nipple and brought to you by “blonde” cows.

A Spanish ritual meant to inject effervescence into a flat drink.

What look like noodles are actually delicious baby eels.

The Catalan green onion has its own festival.

Eating these unpredictable tapas is a game of spicy-pepper roulette.

A New Year's Eve tradition of scarfing down 12 grapes for good luck.

The marshmallow-based candy is named for a delicacy just out of the ancient Greeks' reach.

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

It's expensive, it's gelatinous, it's made from swiftlet spit.

With this egg-based Christmas dessert, Portuguese pastelarias celebrate a bloodsucking fish.

This sausage saved Jews' lives in Inquisition-era Portugal.

A sandwich so decadent, it was once inappropriate for women to order one.