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Rachel Rummel

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2016

Founding member of Gastro Obscura and co-writer of the NYT-bestselling Food Adventurer's Guide.

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Taylor ham, a vegetable omelet, and cheese on a kayser roll.

Meats & Animal Products

Pork Roll

Don't call the crown jewel of New Jersey "Canadian bacon."

Budae jjigae often includes Korean rice cakes, called garae-tteok.

Prepared Foods

Budae Jjigae

All is fare in the Korean War.

In Maine, Allen's Coffee Brandy is more than twice as popular as the next-most popular spirit.

Drinks

Allen's Coffee Brandy

Maine's top-selling spirit that almost no one else drinks.

Sea Grapes

Fruits & Vegetables

Sea Grapes

This "green caviar" is vegetarian friendly.

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.

Despite its resemblance to a regular banana tree, enset does not bear edible fruit.

Fruits & Vegetables

Enset

Some bread goes in the oven for an hour; some goes underground for two years.

A basket containing nine pounds of harvested chaga.

Gastro

Chaga Mushroom

This coffee additive and killer of trees has a reputation as a medical marvel.

Cheerwine, since 1917.

Drinks

Cheerwine

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

Escamoles, i.e. velvety tree ant eggs, pan-fried in butter.

Meats & Animal Products

Escamoles

The eggs of "the farty ant" have earned a reputation as the caviar of the desert.

A Ramos gin fizz from Union Lodge No. 1 in Denver, Colorado.

Drinks

Ramos Gin Fizz

Turning this cocktail into a fluffy cloud is easy—just hire someone to shake it for 12 minutes straight. 

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.

"The kid's got moxie!"

Drinks

Moxie

This cure-all-turned-soda once outsold Coca-Cola.

A set of picklebacks with extra pickle flavor.

Drinks

Pickleback

A bar sharing a basement with a pickle place led to an unusual drink.

A rich and creamy cup of cà phê trứng.

Drinks

Vietnamese Egg Coffee

A decadent blend of coffee, whipped egg, and butter have made this wartime invention a modern-day favorite.

Canso Bomber Plane Crash

Tofino, British Columbia

Canso Bomber Crash Site

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

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