Foods Parus radious Has Tried

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

A rare orchid ingredient makes this ice cream stretchy and chewy.

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

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

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

Some fish can dance.

Beneath its "cover-up" of icing, this dessert hides a bunch of nuts.

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

These dark fried milk balls are flecked with gold and dipped in scented syrup.

Made of candy and Cool Whip, this “salad” is a mainstay at Midwestern potlucks.

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

Mornings in Amish country once called for pie-cake and coffee.

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

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

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 Danish rice pudding appeases wicked elves.

The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.

The ancient confection consists of wispy sugar-strands that look like dragon whiskers.

This French wedding cake is a caramel-wrapped tower of pastry balls.

The prosperous Southern California date industry produces delicious milkshakes.

These delicious strands of juice-coated nuts look like colorful candlesticks.

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

A legume so loved, it’s caused a “fever” in France and made Americans break laws.