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Calcots are longer than your average onion.

Fruits & Vegetables

Calçot

The Catalan green onion has its own festival.

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.

Moelas

Prepared Foods

Moelas

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

Baba de Camelo

Sweets

Baba de Camelo

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

Gooseneck barnacles are called "percebes" in Spanish.

Meats & Animal Products

Gooseneck Barnacles

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

Ovos Moles de Aveiro

Sweets

Ovos Moles de Aveiro

These seashell-shaped, yolk-filled candies are a symbol of Portugal's canal-lined city.

A close-up of lamprey meat.

Meats & Animal Products

Lamprey

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

Pão de Ló de Ovar 

Sweets

Pão de Ló de Ovar 

A cake so gooey, it requires a spoon.

Alheira

Prepared Foods

Alheira

This sausage saved Jews' lives in Inquisition-era Portugal.

Even some cartoonish dessert lampreys have scary teeth.

Sweets

Lampreia de Ovos

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

Portuguese Bacon Pudding

Sweets

Portuguese Bacon Pudding

Royalty adored the Abbot of Priscos' porcine dessert.

Francesinha

Prepared Foods

Francesinha

A sandwich so decadent, it was once inappropriate for women to order one.

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