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Imeka

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Eggs, hoisin sauce, chili, cilantro, sesame, crunchy wontons, and peking duck.

Prepared Foods

Jiānbǐng

Every morning, Chinese vendors sling savory, crispy crepes to lines of patient fans.

An modern rendition of Shit on a Shingle from The Royal American in Charleston, South Carolina.

Prepared Foods

Shit on a Shingle

This is what happens when soldiers pick a new name for meat on bread.

Sourdough bread lined up at San Francisco's Boudin Bakery.

Ingredients & Condiments

Sourdough Starter

A century-old organism creates some of the world's best bread.

Cheerwine, since 1917.

Drinks

Cheerwine

A World War I sugar shortage led an inventor to make a very cherry soda that looks like wine.

A replica of the original McDonald's fries in the McDonald's No. 1 Store Museum.

Prepared Foods

The Original McDonald's French Fry

The beef fat–fried version that first caught Ray Kroc's eye is now extinct.

Behold, fry sauce!

Ingredients & Condiments

Fry Sauce

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

Mock mushrooms are often added to yule log cakes, made of either meringue or marzipan.

Sweets

Yule Log Cake

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

Takoyaki

Prepared Foods

Takoyaki

Osaka's most famous dish is an octopus-stuffed fried dough ball.

Step one: Bite off opposite corners of the biscuit.

Gastro

Tim Tam Slam

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

A Zombie set aflame.

Drinks

The Zombie

Donn Beach wrote the recipe for his famously potent cocktail in secret code.

A Hangtown Fry is the true breakfast of champions.

Prepared Foods

Hangtown Fry

This bacon-and-oyster omelet was a status symbol during the California Gold Rush.

A Grasshopper ice cream cocktail.

Drinks

Grasshopper

This bright green cocktail doubles as dessert.

Pineapple-banana-cherry-coconut-flavored Orbitz.

Drinks

Orbitz

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

Spinach leaves topped with bonito flakes.

Meats & Animal Products

Bonito Flakes

Some fish can dance.

Behold, the most popular bread topping in the Netherlands.

Sweets

Hagelslag

The bread and butter of Dutch cuisine includes these jumbo sprinkles.

A lone umeboshi between chopsticks.

Fruits & Vegetables

Umeboshi

These salted, pickled plums are an ancient Japanese hangover cure.

Shrubs have been used to preserve fruit for hundreds of years.

Drinks

Shrub

Before refrigeration, mixing fruit with sugar and vinegar extended its shelf life and made for a tasty drink.

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.

A tray of corn flake–topped casserole.

Gastro

Funeral Potatoes

A casserole of cheesy, corn flake–topped tubers offers comfort to Mormons in mourning.

One step in the highly codified Japanese tea ceremony.

Gastro

Japanese Tea Ceremony

A ritual that showcases the beauty of the present moment.

Cinnamon cream cheese–filled King Cake.

Sweets

King Cake

The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.

It's It

Sweets

It's It

This classic San Franciscan ice cream sandwich is it, isn't it?

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