Foods Vidiot Has Tried

The melon has its own sculpture, festival, and order of knights.

The hot dog chain’s charming “bi-dent” picks up potatoes with ease.

A dark soda with a dark history.

A now-archaic Scottish breakfast paved the way for this popular dessert.

This staple sandwich of Brooklyn delis has become a symbol of gentrification.

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

This sliceable sweet treat is actually dairy-free.

The same grass that feeds massive European bison adds notes of vanilla and lavender to this unique Polish vodka.

In Newfoundland, the icebergs that float along the coast may end up in your cocktail.

We have the Ottoman sultans to thank for this creamy Turkish dessert made of chicken breast.

This spicy, sloppy meat mixture is thinner than chili, thicker than soup, and perfect atop “garbage.”

Only two silent monks know all 130 plants that go into this herbal liqueur.

Chinese rhubarb imparts an organic smoky aroma to this Italian amaro.

Most people have never tasted the real thing.

Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.

Bread so thin, you can read music through the dough.

Some Bretons claim that their signature treat is the fattiest pastry in the world.

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

This Jersey-born frosty drink is now a Rhode Island favorite.

Quench your thirst with the refreshing taste of celery soda.

Two Chinese bakery specialties, combined into one.

"As a vanquisher of men its equal has never been found."

This Philadelphia cocktail was invented at a fishing club that once declared itself a sovereign state.

A cocktail that originated in a British officers’ club in erstwhile Burma now has fans across the world.