Foods Vrielinkie Wants to Try

These cake-laden tables fueled community meetings that helped bring Southern Jutland back into Denmark.

The aroma of this mulled wine has been compared to “a warmed-up bowl of Froot Loops.”

For special occasions, Norwegians stack 18 rings of cake into a tower.

This Christmas tree elixir kept Vikings and Captain Cook alive.

These expensive and dangerous-to-harvest barnacles were once confused for goose eggs.

Before Lent, residents of Trás-os-Montes indulge in a pairing of stuffed pork stomach and bean pods.

In homestyle Portuguese restaurants known as tascas, savory stewed chicken gizzards are a flavorful favorite.

Facing invasion, the small town of Boticas buried their bottles and gave birth to a unique style of wine.

Sabering champagne doesn’t hold a candle to this method of cracking open wine bottles with red-hot iron.

In this island town, stew gets cooked by volcano.

One small Portuguese town celebrates a saint with phallic cakes.

This gendered sweet swap practically oozes sexual innuendos.

Portugal's volcanic archipelago is home to addictively sweet and chewy muffins.

Royalty adored the Abbot of Priscos' porcine dessert.

These Portuguese doughnuts have a fervent fanbase in Hawaii.

The lychee-looking fruit appears in everything from jam and liqueur to the Aeneid and Madrid's flag.

In Portugal, a bowl of “camel’s drool” is a sweet treat.

A cake so gooey, it requires a spoon.

A prehistoric sea monster sucks blood, then gets cooked in its own.

With this egg-based Christmas dessert, Portuguese pastelarias celebrate a bloodsucking fish.

Flower bulbs are the main ingredient of this quintessentially Dutch spirit.

These severed octopus tentacles wriggle on your plate.

South Koreans turned this simple grain into a nutty energy drink.

South Korea's oldest alcoholic beverage is making a comeback.