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Exploding Chocolate Teacakes

Sweets

Exploding Chocolate Teacakes

In the 1960s, Royal Air Force pilots made a startling discovery about their sweets.

Bovril from the Supermarket

Ingredients & Condiments

Bovril

This "Fluid of Beef" fed an army and makes a hearty tea.

Faggots

Prepared Foods

Faggots

There's much more to these offal-based meatballs than the unfortunate double meaning of their name.

Modern versions of Liverpool scouse often include carrots, as well.

Prepared Foods

Scouse

A sailor's stew that's come to define Liverpudlians.

Pork rillettes.

Prepared Foods

Rillettes

Spread this fat-poached meat on a crusty French loaf.

Licorice root for sale at a Spanish market.

Fruits & Vegetables

Licorice Root

The washed and dried root of the licorice plant was once a popular natural “candy.”

This British treat is named after the original Dutch settlers in Manhattan, called Knickerbockers.

Sweets

Knickerbocker Glory

Not even Harry Potter could resist this whimsical British dessert.

When in Adelaide, get a pie floater.

Prepared Foods

Pie Floater

The Aussie street food meal of meat pie on a sea of peas.

The rolled interior of a yule log cake resembles wood grain.

Sweets

Yule Log Cake

These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.

Classic and chocolate-covered Kendal Mint Cakes.

Sweets

Kendal Mint Cake

The original energy bar.

Eccles Cake

Sweets

Eccles Cake

The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.

Colcannon with scallions and bacon.

Prepared Foods

Colcannon

A hearty Irish staple that can tell your fortune.

Yorkshire Parkin from the vintage cookbook "Farmhouse Cookery."

Sweets

Yorkshire Parkin

On November 5, the British celebrate a thwarted assassination attempt with bonfires and deliciously dense, sticky gingerbread.

Spaghetti alla Puttanesca

Prepared Foods

Spaghetti alla Puttanesca

Historians debate whether this dish actually originated with Italian sex workers.

Ketchup Chips

Prepared Foods

Ketchup Chips

This Canadian favorite is relatively unknown elsewhere.

Pilsner poured mlíko style.

Drinks

Mlíko

In Czechia, a foamy beer is a sweet and creamy treat.

Irn-Bru

Drinks

Irn-Bru

A citrusy cream soda with a hint of rust outsells Coca-Cola in Scotland.

Lindisfarne Mead

Drinks

Lindisfarne Mead

The best place to find the “nectar of the gods” is Holy Island.

Vimto

Drinks

Vimto

This British temperance tonic is now a Ramadan favorite.

Scrumpy

Drinks

Scrumpy

This rustic cider's name derives from an English term for fruit thievery.

Lancashire Hotpot

Prepared Foods

Lancashire Hotpot

This “hodgepodge” of affordable ingredients fueled local laborers during the Industrial Revolution.

Dorset Knobs

Prepared Foods

Dorset Knobs

Only one bakery still makes these hard biscuits that were once beloved by Thomas Hardy.

Revolution Mess at Vodka Revolution

Sweets

Eton Mess

This summery parfait has mingled with British royals and literary elites.

Christmas Cake and Cheese

Sweets

Christmas Cake and Cheese

In Yorkshire, the holidays usher in this salty-sweet combo.

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