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Lithuanian Spit Cake
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Lithuanian Spit Cake

This dessert is roasted over a fire and looks like a tree.
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Buchada de Bode
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Buchada de Bode

If haggis had a South American cousin, this would be it.
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Hagelslag
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Hagelslag

The bread and butter of Dutch cuisine includes these jumbo sprinkles.
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Chekich
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Chekich

These bread stamps create a dazzling array of geometric and floral patterns.
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Bhang
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Bhang

To celebrate the Holi festival, many Indians raise a glass of cannabis-infused milk.
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Watergate Cake
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Watergate Cake

Beneath its "cover-up" of icing, this dessert hides a bunch of nuts.
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Black Cake
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Black Cake

Fruit soaks in rum for up to a year to make this rich Caribbean Christmas cake.
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Jumiles
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Jumiles

These Mexican bugs taste like cinnamon and alleviate arthritis pain.
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Akutuq
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Akutuq

Whipping snow, seal oil, and berries into a frosty treat takes a very deft hand.
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Kala Jamun
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Kala Jamun

These dark fried milk balls are flecked with gold and dipped in scented syrup.
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Pule
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Pule

The world's most expensive cheese is made from Balkan donkey milk.
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Shrub
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Shrub

Before refrigeration, mixing fruit with sugar and vinegar extended its shelf life and made for a tasty drink.
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Toloache
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Toloache

The Mesoamerican plant is used as a hallucinogen, medicine, and aphrodisiac.
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Marang
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Marang

A Filipino fruit that smells like gasoline and tastes like pears, jackfruit, and pineapple.
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Bouye
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Bouye

Juice from the Baobab tree “tastes like sunshine” and treats dysentery.
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Singapore Carrot Cake
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Singapore Carrot Cake

A radish scramble gets lost in translation.
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Pulque
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Pulque

Tequila's ancient, fermented cousin is making a comeback in Mexico City.
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Jagua
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Jagua

This fruit makes tattoos, antibiotics, and dessert.
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Breadfruit Salad
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Breadfruit Salad

This tropical fruit once sparked a famous mutiny and now serves as a starch alternative in potato salad.
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Palolo
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Palolo

To catch these coral-dwelling, caviar-flavored sea worms, you must wade into their annual mating ritual.
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Agua de Agrillo
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Agua de Agrillo

This tart, rare flavor of agua fresca comes from Mexican skunkbush berries.
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Blue-Green Algae
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Blue-Green Algae

The Aztecs used it to make protein-rich tortillas; we use it to make unicorn lattes.
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Afghan Biscuits
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Afghan Biscuits

These beloved New Zealand cookies have a mysterious past.
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Thrills Gum
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Thrills Gum

Everyone says this vintage chewing gum tastes like soap, including the company.
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