Prepared Foods
Paan
This chewable Indian digestive soothes stomachs, freshens breath, and might give you cancer.
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Prepared Foods
This chewable Indian digestive soothes stomachs, freshens breath, and might give you cancer.
Sweets
This Chicago specialty stacks three cakes into one monster dessert.
Ingredients & Condiments
The Aztecs used it to make protein-rich tortillas; we use it to make unicorn lattes.
Sweets
These beloved New Zealand cookies have a mysterious past.
Fruits & Vegetables
Boil away this plant's poisonous hairs, and you're left with a tasty, spinach-like leaf.
Meats & Animal Products
After dining on this fish, your next course might be 36 hours of hallucinations.
Fruits & Vegetables
This fruit makes tattoos, antibiotics, and dessert.
Gastro
Tequila's ancient, fermented cousin is making a comeback in Mexico City.
Gastro
To become an honorary Newfie, eat bologna, kiss a frozen cod, swear an oath, and shoot rum.
Sweets
Mornings in Amish country once called for pie-cake and coffee.
Gastro
The Mesoamerican plant is used as a hallucinogen, medicine, and aphrodisiac.
Meats & Animal Products
Slice open this rock-like sea creature and you'll find tomato-red flesh that tastes great in Chilean ceviche.
Drinks
Before refrigeration, mixing fruit with sugar and vinegar extended its shelf life and made for a tasty drink.
Fruits & Vegetables
These salted, pickled plums are an ancient Japanese hangover cure.
Prepared Foods
To travel light, Mongolian warriors used animal carcasses as crockery.
Meats & Animal Products
The world's most expensive cheese is made from Balkan donkey milk.
Sweets
These dark fried milk balls are flecked with gold and dipped in scented syrup.
Meats & Animal Products
These Mexican bugs taste like cinnamon and alleviate arthritis pain.
Sweets
Fruit soaks in rum for up to a year to make this rich Caribbean Christmas cake.
Prepared Foods
Jamaica's spicy goat soup is also an aphrodisiac.
Sweets
The marshmallow-based candy is named for a delicacy just out of the ancient Greeks' reach.
Sweets
Beneath its "cover-up" of icing, this dessert hides a bunch of nuts.
Meats & Animal Products
These expensive and dangerous-to-harvest barnacles were once confused for goose eggs.
Prepared Foods
It's fishy how close to an omelette this is.