Sweets
Thrills Gum
Everyone says this vintage chewing gum tastes like soap, including the company.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Sweets
Everyone says this vintage chewing gum tastes like soap, including the company.
Sweets
This orange and black licorice flavor is kind of a big deal in Canada.
Ingredients & Condiments
The Mexican fungal delicacy that makes corn taste like a mushroom.
Meats & Animal Products
The story of Britain's smelliest cheese involves monks, drunks, and endangered cows.
Ingredients & Condiments
This "Fluid of Beef" fed an army and makes a hearty tea.
Sweets
In the 1960s, Royal Air Force pilots made a startling discovery about their sweets.
Fruits & Vegetables
Boil away this plant's poisonous hairs, and you're left with a tasty, spinach-like leaf.
Prepared Foods
Belgium's stew of beef and abbey-style ale is essentially bourguignon for beer lovers.
Prepared Foods
This sausage saved Jews' lives in Inquisition-era Portugal.
Sweets
These seashell-shaped, yolk-filled candies are a symbol of Portugal's canal-lined city.
Drinks
In Lisbon, tiny, standing-room-only bars specialize in this sour cherry liqueur.
Drinks
A wine so luxuriously sweet, it's consumed by the spoonful.
Sweets
Hungary's favorite chocolate bar is filled with cheese curd.
Drinks
A bitter liqueur that traces the history of a Hungarian-Jewish family.
Prepared Foods
This Hungarian fried dough can make a rich breakfast or trusty hangover cure.
Sweets
The Belgian candy that sparked an epic vendor battle.
Ingredients & Condiments
This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.
Prepared Foods
When half of Barbados’s national dish migrated across maritime borders, drama ensued.
Drinks
Caribbean tree bark gives this drink its bittersweet flavor.
Fruits & Vegetables
Jamaica's national fruit is poisonous and resembles scrambled eggs.
Drinks
Neither tea nor hot chocolate, this Caribbean cocoa drink is in a league of its own.
Sweets
This pineapple soft serve has a cult following at Disney theme parks.
Prepared Foods
This Canadian favorite is relatively unknown elsewhere.
Fruits & Vegetables
Nutty and sweet, these juicy gems were once a valued trade commodity in the northern United States.