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Monks and nuns elevate this soft cheese with a wash of walnut liqueur.

Before they're filled with brandy, these bottles get attached to trees so pears can grow inside.

Hungary's favorite chocolate bar is filled with cheese curd.

A bloody good candy bar.

For those craving intensity beyond black licorice, how about tar?

A citrusy cream soda with a hint of rust outsells Coca-Cola in Scotland.

Traditional Easter pudding, best served untraditionally.

In medieval Germany, drinkers followed a star to local lager.

The Virginia treat can “make even your deepest-dyed Yankee start complimenting you with a southern accent.”

Breaded and fried, these testicles become tasty tenders.

Finns celebrate Easter with millions of real eggshells filled with almond-hazelnut nougat.

“And eggs are open in the twinkling of an eye.”

Only a handful of restaurants still serve the retro Midwestern meal.

Indiana's unofficial state pie was once a desperate measure.

After a long day of skiing, you deserve caffeine, fire, and alcohol—at the same time.

The Dutch drinking ritual begins with a glass of genever and ends with a “little head-butt.”

This Chaoshan specialty makes it hard to resist playing with your food.

Early 20th-century chefs used beaver musk to give sweets a vanilla-raspberry flavor.

This sweet treat is so beloved in Hong Kong, it inspired an animated movie.

Colonial Americans would try anything to revive bad beer.

A dark soda with a dark history.

The toxic pufferfish steals hearts, despite its ability to stop them.

So sweet you forget to cry.

In Poland's highlands, a small group makes a beautiful, smoky sheep's milk cheese.