Foods Wutzer Has Tried

Mornings in Amish country once called for pie-cake and coffee.

This mushroom tastes just like chicken.

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a classic Midwestern treat!

This dessert island is known for its refined layer cakes.

The city loves hot sausage slathered with cold cream cheese.

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

So sweet you forget to cry.

Indiana's unofficial state pie was once a desperate measure.

Roadside vendors in the Deep South soften fresh goobers with bubbling brine.

The first American doughnut chain used spuds.

This sweet spud is neither made with tubers, nor of Irish origin.

Once described as a “divine elixir,” this Southern sauce typically gets its spunk from coffee.

Christmas in Northeast Pennsylvania calls for “the Champagne of the Coal Region.”

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

A crossbred table grape variety that tastes an awful lot like spun sugar.

A Victorian favorite is hanging on in Pennsylvania.

This tangy East Coast spread is becoming increasingly hard to find.

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

These dairy-based sculptures have been state fair traditions for more than a century.

The holiday tradition of hiding an ornamental veggie.

This pineapple soft serve has a cult following at Disney theme parks.

This chocolate-coated confection's crisp, bubbly structure is well-suited to the even crisper Buffalo air.

These deep-fried dough daisies outlived the Fort Erie amusement park in which they were born.