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texastessa1

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Foods this traveler has tried.

Rolling ready strips of sugar on snow onto popsicle sticks.

Sweets

Sugar on Snow

Where maple sap flows, all one needs to make taffy is snow.

Ham Salad

Prepared Foods

Ham Salad

This retro sandwich filling was once a convenient, comforting funeral food.

 Vernors Ginger Soda

Drinks

Vernors Ginger Soda

The Detroit favorite is one of the oldest sodas in the United States.

Cornish Pasty

Prepared Foods

Cornish Pasty

In the 19th century, tin miners ate these handheld pies and left their crusts to appease mischievous, mine-dwelling spirits.

Arkansas Black Apple

Fruits & Vegetables

Arkansas Black Apple

This dark, rare fruit lasts a very long time.

Hoppin' John

Prepared Foods

Hoppin' John

This New Year's luck-bringer has a controversial contemporary taste.

Ketchup Chips

Prepared Foods

Ketchup Chips

This Canadian favorite is relatively unknown elsewhere.

Pie, mash, and eel in parsley sauce.

Meats & Animal Products

Jellied Eels

No traditional East Ender meal is complete without pie, mashed potatoes, and gelatinous river creatures.

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.

Dutch Baby

Prepared Foods

Dutch Baby

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

Irn-Bru

Drinks

Irn-Bru

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

Necco Wafers

Sweets

Necco Wafers

Produced since 1847, these classic New England candies almost disappeared in 2018.

Picarones

Sweets

Picarones

The sweet potato donuts are an integral part of the Afro-Peruvian community.

The Christmas Pickle

Gastro

The Christmas Pickle

The holiday tradition of hiding an ornamental veggie.

Cinnamon cream cheese–filled King Cake.

Sweets

King Cake

The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.

Texas Kolaches

Sweets

Texas Kolaches

This tasty Czech pastry is now a Texan tradition.

Absinthe Spoon

Gastro

Absinthe Spoon

This flat, silver spoon holds an exalted place in the mystery and ritual of absinthe drinking.

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