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remcrae

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2014

artist. sometimes writer about the internet and cognition and "Benjaminian Fossil"-type symbolic repetition across time. into the structural dynamics of post-revolutionary historiography. thinks dogs are awesome. likes a good beer, peaty scotch, hunks of cheese, pickles and old port.

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Cincinnati Chili

Prepared Foods

Cincinnati Chili

Spiced meat sauce meets spaghetti, shredded cheese, and beans in a Midwest cult favorite.

Spruce Beer

Gastro

Spruce Beer

This Christmas tree elixir kept Vikings and Captain Cook alive.

Powdered maca root.

Gastro

Maca

The Andean root once fueled Inca warriors.

Acorn jelly is often seasoned with soy sauce and sesame oil, and comes topped with green onions, sesame seeds, and Korean chili flakes (gochugaru).

Prepared Foods

Acorn Jelly

The nut goes from oak tree to savory, sesame-topped side in a matter of days.

The edible contents of the durian have been compared to custard.

Fruits & Vegetables

Durian

The fruit so pungent it's banned from trains, hotels, and public places.

A slice of black cake baked by Mrs. Annemarie Charles, from San Fernando, Trinidad.

Sweets

Black Cake

Fruit soaks in rum for up to a year to make this rich Caribbean Christmas cake.

A lone umeboshi between chopsticks.

Fruits & Vegetables

Umeboshi

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

Shoofly pie a la mode in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Sweets

Shoofly Pie

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

A pot of boiled nettles means savory greens and earthy tea.

Fruits & Vegetables

Stinging Nettles

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

The many "shelves" of Laetiporus sulphureus.

Ingredients & Condiments

Chicken of the Woods

This mushroom tastes just like chicken.

Coffee ceremonies are family and community events.

Gastro

Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony

The birthplace of coffee celebrates community with a sensory feast.

A tray of corn flake–topped casserole.

Gastro

Funeral Potatoes

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

Get your thrills with rosewater gum.

Sweets

Thrills Gum

Everyone says this vintage chewing gum tastes like soap, including the company.

Spicy-sour noodles plus a packet of tamarind sauce equals a delightful snack.

Sweets

Salsagheti

This Mexican candy reimagines a spaghetti dinner with spicy-sour gummy noodles and tamarind sauce.

Lifting a fresh eggette from the skillet.

Sweets

Egg Waffles

These portable pancake sheets have a crispy, hollow side and a sweet, doughy side.

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.

Huitlacoche on a corn cob.

Ingredients & Condiments

Huitlacoche

The Mexican fungal delicacy that makes corn taste like a mushroom.

Lobster mushrooms get their name from their color, which resembles the shell of a lobster.

Ingredients & Condiments

Lobster Mushroom

This mushroom isn't a mushroom at all.

Boylan's Birch Beer

Drinks

Birch Beer

This cousin of root beer has a long history and a surprisingly minty taste.

Mustard pickles in the wild.

Ingredients & Condiments

Mustard Pickles

This zippy Newfoundland condiment inspires a deep, burning loyalty.

Cheerwine, since 1917.

Drinks

Cheerwine

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

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.

All hail Cel-Ray.

Drinks

Cel-Ray

Quench your thirst with the refreshing taste of celery soda.

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.

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