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Foods this traveler has tried.

Meet F.R.E.D.

Gastro

Field Ration Eating Device

The tool, found in Australian military ration packs, is considered handy by some and awful by others.

Ready to play goon of fortune.

Gastro

Goon Sack

The least interesting thing Australians do with these giant, inflatable wine bags is drink from them.

When in Adelaide, get a pie floater.

Prepared Foods

Pie Floater

The Aussie street food meal of meat pie on a sea of peas.

A sausage is cheaper than getting fined for not voting.

Prepared Foods

Democracy Sausage

Come to vote, leave with a sausage.

Chicken Salt

Ingredients & Condiments

Chicken Salt

Curry powder gives this savory seasoning its golden hue.

Leatherwood honey isn't extremely sweet, but it is a bit spicy.

Ingredients & Condiments

Tasmanian Leatherwood Honey

Bees get a lift from helicopters in order to produce this spicy honey.

The coastal wattle and its seeds.

Ingredients & Condiments

Wattleseed

This chocolate-flavored superfood falls from the Australian Acacia bush.

Finger Lime

Fruits & Vegetables

Finger Lime

Slice one open for some citrus caviar.

Grating coconuts using a coconut grater school in Tahiti, circa 1911.

Gastro

Coconut Grater Stool

You put the grater in the coconut...

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.

Whitebait fritters are a New Zealand delicacy.

Prepared Foods

Whitebait Fritters

It's fishy how close to an omelette this is.

Hāngi

Gastro

Hāngi

Preparing a traditional Māori feast requires a rock pit heated by fire or hot springs.

Musk sticks have been likened to "the smell of old ladies at the bus stop ... ”

Sweets

Musk Sticks

This classic Australian candy looks like pink toothpaste and tastes like perfume.

Do you want some hundreds-and-thousands on your bread?

Sweets

Fairy Bread

A rainbow of flavor that harks back to childhood.

Step one: Bite off opposite corners of the biscuit.

Gastro

Tim Tam Slam

The world's least practical and most delicious edible straw.

Kava

Sweets

Kava

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

Pocari Sweat

Drinks

Pocari Sweat

A pharmaceutical company developed this beverage as drinkable IV solution.

One step in the highly codified Japanese tea ceremony.

Gastro

Japanese Tea Ceremony

A ritual that showcases the beauty of the present moment.

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