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Nanaimo Bar

Sweets

Nanaimo Bar

From postwar dessert to sweet slice of Canadian identity.

Changes in cabin pressure may cause explosion.

Sweets

Exploding Chocolate Teacakes

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

The small shelf allowed you to drink tea without damaging your mustache.

Gastro

Mustache Cups

They helped Victorian men drink tea while protecting their precious facial hair.

Poke Cake

Sweets

Poke Cake

In the 1970s, housewives stabbed their cakes and filled the holes with Jell-O.

Grass Jelly

Ingredients & Condiments

Grass Jelly

Once a treatment for heat stroke, the herbal gel now flavors desserts.

Dutch Baby

Prepared Foods

Dutch Baby

Fluffy, crispy, and large enough to share, it's no ordinary pancake.

Eggs, hoisin sauce, chili, cilantro, sesame, crunchy wontons, and peking duck.

Prepared Foods

Jiānbǐng

Every morning, Chinese vendors sling savory, crispy crepes to lines of patient fans.

Pie Birds

Gastro

Pie Birds

To release steam, Victorian bakers placed whimsical ceramics in their pastries.

With an extra splash of seltzer.

Drinks

Egg Cream

A fizzy, chocolate drink that harkens back to the days of Brooklyn soda fountains.

Pretty please with a walnut on top.

Sweets

Afghan Biscuits

These beloved New Zealand cookies have a mysterious past.

The French wedding cake.

Sweets

Croquembouche

This French wedding cake is a caramel-wrapped tower of pastry balls.

Date shakes from Hadley Fruit Orchards.

Drinks

Palm Springs Date Shakes

The prosperous Southern California date industry produces delicious milkshakes.

The making of a Fluffernutter.

Prepared Foods

The Fluffernutter

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

Boylan's Birch Beer

Drinks

Birch Beer

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

Sourdough bread lined up at San Francisco's Boudin Bakery.

Ingredients & Condiments

Sourdough Starter

A century-old organism creates some of the world's best bread.

A rich and creamy cup of cà phê trứng.

Drinks

Vietnamese Egg Coffee

A decadent blend of coffee, whipped egg, and butter have made this wartime invention a modern-day favorite.

"The kid's got moxie!"

Drinks

Moxie

This cure-all-turned-soda once outsold Coca-Cola.

Cheerwine, since 1917.

Drinks

Cheerwine

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

Lifting a fresh eggette from the skillet.

Sweets

Egg Waffles

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

When in Adelaide, get a pie floater.

Prepared Foods

Pie Floater

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

Mock mushrooms are often added to yule log cakes, made of either meringue or marzipan.

Sweets

Yule Log Cake

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

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.

Kava

Sweets

Kava

The South Pacific's shrub-based drink causes relaxation, euphoria, and a tingling sensation.

If you've been good, you can have a chocolate fish.

Sweets

Chocolate Fish

The sweet Kiwi treat that represents a token reward.

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