Lauded by poets, a Scottish town's hot-smoked haddock may date back to the Vikings.

After thriving during Prohibition, this soda fountain staple was immortalized in a song by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Thai street vendors serve this spicy seafood while it's still moving.

Cooks in the Southern United States still whip up this spicy, seductively sweet condiment from the 1950s.

Sweet sauce tops off buttermilk biscuits in the Appalachian and Ozark mountains.

The sweet, spiraled pastries were once a staple on cold days in the American South.

Every April, contestants fling a dead fish over the Florida-Alabama state line for charity.

In this summer phenomenon, fish swarm Alabama shores and waterfront residents scoop up the bounty.

In Alabama, smoked meat gets dressed up in white.

It's actually a crab dish from Alabama's Gulf Coast.

England's annual event features relays, trebuchets, and Russian egg roulette.

Why throw old cakes away when you can launch them by hand, slingshot, or cannon?

The competition that shrinks shrimp cocktail to the size of your pinky and fits bento into a matchbox.

A medieval food fight supposedly inspired this annual competition.

This French marathon has regular stops for wine, cheese, and oysters.

Chocolate-covered mystery meat and dancing cans abound.

These spud showdowns are highly-anticipated events at tuber-focused festivals in the United States.

Ever wanted to slide down a slippery tarp while wearing watermelons?

West Virginia's annual competition features the likes of squirrel gravy over biscuits and snapping turtle stew.

After the giant food fight is over, fire trucks are needed to hose down the sauce-filled streets.

See Taiwan's dying art of fishing with fire.

The townspeople of Coxheath have been hurling pies at one another since 1967.

Where the world's best pizzas face off.

A brotherhood is behind this 15,000-egg tradition.