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Cotton Candy Grapes
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Cotton Candy Grapes

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

Pastrami fans will find the taste of this Canadian spice blend very familiar.
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Carolina Gold
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Carolina Gold

This varietal of rice is so good that it's compared to ice cream.
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Okinawa Black Sugar
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Okinawa Black Sugar

It's darker, saltier, and healthier than white sugar.
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Butterfly Pea Flower
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Butterfly Pea Flower

With a squeeze of lemon, this plant can turn any drink into a color-changing mood ring.
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Tonka Beans
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Tonka Beans

A legume so loved, it’s caused a “fever” in France and made Americans break laws.
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Tomalley
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Tomalley

That green stuff inside a lobster? You can (usually) eat it.
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Chitlins
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Chitlins

These entrails identified safe venues for Black musicians during the Jim Crow era.
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Spaghetti alla Puttanesca
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Spaghetti alla Puttanesca

Historians debate whether this dish actually originated with Italian sex workers.
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Frog Eye Salad
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Frog Eye Salad

Don’t worry: This sweet, creamy Mormon potluck staple isn’t actually made of frogs.
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Funeral Potatoes
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Funeral Potatoes

A casserole of cheesy, corn flake–topped tubers offers comfort to Mormons in mourning.
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Burns Supper
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Burns Supper

Pay tribute to the poet Robert Burns with bagpipes, readings, and heaping helpings of haggis.
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Goon Sack
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Goon Sack

The least interesting thing Australians do with these giant, inflatable wine bags is drink from them.
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Matcha Chasen
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Matcha Chasen

To make the perfect matcha, start with the perfect whisk.
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Necco Wafers
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Necco Wafers

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

North Carolina's seasonal delicacy is brought to you by algae.
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Dole Whip
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Dole Whip

This pineapple soft serve has a cult following at Disney theme parks.
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Masters Pimento Cheese Sandwich
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Masters Pimento Cheese Sandwich

The story of the golf tournament’s signature snack is one of secret recipes and controversial updates.
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Pocari Sweat
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Pocari Sweat

A pharmaceutical company developed this beverage as drinkable IV solution.
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Chicken Bones
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Chicken Bones

This hot-pink sweet treat that bears only a notional resemblance to poultry is a Canadian Christmastime staple.
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Ice Wine
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Ice Wine

Pressed from frozen grapes, this prized wine was a sweet accident.
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Financiers
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Financiers

These almond cakes resembling gold ingots were sold near the Paris stock exchange.
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Soylent
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Soylent

One fantasy food's journey from sci-fi vegan steak to silver screen cannibalism to actual meal replacement.
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Warq
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Warq

This edible silver garnish has long added bling to South Asian cuisine.
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