Foods StankinJankin Has Tried

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Foods I've tried

Foods this traveler has tried.

The Verbena cocktail at the Chandelier Bar at The Cosmopolitan.

Ingredients & Condiments

Szechuan Button

This herb gives cocktails another kind of buzz.

The ackee's yellow portion is edible, but the black seeds are toxic.

Fruits & Vegetables

Ackee

Jamaica's national fruit is poisonous and resembles scrambled eggs.

Are you feeling lucky?

Gastro

Twelve Grapes

A New Year's Eve tradition of scarfing down 12 grapes for good luck.

A bowl of monkey gland sauce ready to be spread across red meat, poultry, or fish.

Ingredients & Condiments

Monkey Gland Sauce

No primates were harmed in the making of this South African steak sauce.

Pineapple-banana-cherry-coconut-flavored Orbitz.

Drinks

Orbitz

This drink hasn't been produced since the late nineties, but still has a cult following.

Shrubs have been used to preserve fruit for hundreds of years.

Drinks

Shrub

Before refrigeration, mixing fruit with sugar and vinegar extended its shelf life and made for a tasty drink.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Venezuela.

Prepared Foods

Pan de Jamón

In Venezuela, traditional Christmas bread marries ham, raisins, and olives.

Cinnamon cream cheese–filled King Cake.

Sweets

King Cake

The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.