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A double scoop of orange-flavored tiger tail ice cream striped with black licorice ribbons.

Sweets

Tiger Tail Ice Cream

This orange and black licorice flavor is kind of a big deal in Canada.

Homemade, all-natural, foraged teaberry ice cream from Park Place Café & Restaurant

Sweets

Teaberry Ice Cream

This Pennsylvania specialty sometimes looks like Pepto-Bismol and smells like Bengay.

Have your cake and eat it, too.

Sweets

Atomic Cake

This Chicago specialty stacks three cakes into one monster dessert.

Cinnamon cream cheese–filled King Cake.

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King Cake

The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.

Blue Moon Ice Cream

Sweets

Blue Moon Ice Cream

This cosmic-colored flavor is a Midwestern mystery.

Pepernoten

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Pepernoten

Every December, Sinterklaas and his helper throw these little spiced cookies to Dutch children.

Springerle

Sweets

Springerle

These Bavarian cookies are also intricate works of art.

Watergate Salad

Sweets

Watergate Salad

This salad named after a scandal has been traced back to Kraft and Helen Keller.

Dole Whip

Sweets

Dole Whip

This pineapple soft serve has a cult following at Disney theme parks.

Chimay Beer Cheese

Meats & Animal Products

Chimay Beer Cheese

Beer-brewing monks make aromatic, ale-flavored cheese in the Belgian countryside.

Pemmican was made with bison meat and fat, along with choke cherries.

Meats & Animal Products

Pemmican

Touted as the original energy bar, the bison-based mixture kept for months.

Louisiana Hog's Head Cheese

Meats & Animal Products

Louisiana Hog's Head Cheese

A porcine aspic that makes a perfect accompaniment to crackers and sandwiches is fast becoming a rare commodity.

Savory Jell-O salads are also called aspics.

Prepared Foods

Jell-O Salad

Meat covered in gelatinous goo was once a classic American comfort food.

The making of a Fluffernutter.

Prepared Foods

The Fluffernutter

A completely delicious, nearly nutrient-free sandwich beloved by generations of New Englanders.

Some mozzarella "logs" for dipping in melba.

Prepared Foods

Mozzarella Sticks with Melba Sauce

Only in Albany do people dip in raspberry sauce.

Beer Can Chicken

Prepared Foods

Beer Can Chicken

This bird comes with a brew inside.

Booyah

Prepared Foods

Booyah

Ladled out of massive pots at feasts and fundraisers, the Midwestern stew binds communities.

Trump Sandwich

Prepared Foods

Trump Sandwich

In the wake of the 2016 American presidential election, political satire entered the local deli.

Christmas Eve Carp

Prepared Foods

Christmas Eve Carp

Some families keep their holiday meal fresh by letting it live in their bathtub.

Fried Cow Brain

Prepared Foods

Fried Cow Brain

Cairo airport officials have seized hundreds of pounds of this smuggle-worthy delicacy.

Even spice giant McCormick is in on the steak spice game.

Ingredients & Condiments

Montreal Steak Spice

Pastrami fans will find the taste of this Canadian spice blend very familiar.

A box of Maine's signature, tiny blueberries.

Fruits & Vegetables

Maine Wild Blueberries

The sweet, tiny wild berries are only available for two months each year.

A few dashes are sufficient.

Ingredients & Condiments

Maggi Seasoning

This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.

Castoreum

Ingredients & Condiments

Castoreum

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

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