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Grating coconuts using a coconut grater school in Tahiti, circa 1911.

Gastro

Coconut Grater Stool

You put the grater in the coconut...

An array of Buckfast.

Drinks

Buckfast

The caffeinated wine is made by British monks and loved by Scottish criminals.

The frosting on Yule log cakes is combed to resemble bark.

Sweets

Yule Log Cake

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

A few dashes are sufficient.

Ingredients & Condiments

Maggi Seasoning

This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.

Kava

Sweets

Kava

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

A jumbo-sized "tu'penny" lick.

Gastro

Penny Lick

This is some deceptive, dirty ice cream ware.

It's Its ice cream sandwiches, a San Francisco tradition since 1928.

Sweets

It's It

This classic San Franciscan ice cream sandwich is it, isn't it?

Classic and chocolate-covered Kendal Mint Cakes.

Sweets

Kendal Mint Cake

The original energy bar.

Bovril from the Supermarket

Ingredients & Condiments

Bovril

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

Do you want some hundreds-and-thousands on your bread?

Sweets

Fairy Bread

A rainbow of flavor that harks back to childhood.

Step one: Bite off opposite corners of the biscuit.

Gastro

Tim Tam Slam

The world's least practical and most delicious edible straw.

Behold, the most popular bread topping in the Netherlands.

Sweets

Hagelslag

The bread and butter of Dutch cuisine includes these jumbo sprinkles.

Spinach leaves topped with bonito flakes.

Meats & Animal Products

Bonito Flakes

Some fish can dance.

Cinnamon cream cheese–filled King Cake.

Sweets

King Cake

The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.

Poke Cake

Sweets

Poke Cake

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

Brunost

Meats & Animal Products

Brunost

This “brown cheese” tastes like caramel.

One of these peppers could set your mouth on fire.

Fruits & Vegetables

Pimientos de Padrón

Eating these unpredictable tapas is a game of spicy-pepper roulette.

Dulse and Yellowman

Sweets

Dulse and Yellowman

An unlikely pairing of honeycomb toffee and purple seaweed.

Soor Plooms

Sweets

Soor Plooms

Sour green sweets commemorate a victorious Scottish skirmish of 1337.

Stinking Bishop

Meats & Animal Products

Stinking Bishop

The story of Britain's smelliest cheese involves monks, drunks, and endangered cows.

Unicum

Drinks

Unicum

A bitter liqueur that traces the history of a Hungarian-Jewish family.

Irn-Bru

Drinks

Irn-Bru

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

A refreshing glass of tarkhun, with Korean carrots and kuksu soup.

Drinks

Tarkhuna

Tarragon provides the herbal kick to this neon-green Georgian soda.

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