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Honey Toast Box
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Honey Toast Box

Many spoons are needed to demolish one of these ice cream-stuffed bread loaves.
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Yule Log Cake
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Yule Log Cake

These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.
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Teaberry Ice Cream
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Teaberry Ice Cream

This Pennsylvania specialty sometimes looks like Pepto-Bismol and smells like Bengay.
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Dondurma
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Dondurma

A rare orchid ingredient makes this ice cream stretchy and chewy.
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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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Shoofly Pie
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Shoofly Pie

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

This Dutch-Indonesian cake contains up to 30 layers.
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Amish Funeral Pie
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Amish Funeral Pie

So sweet you forget to cry.
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Pickle Pie
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Pickle Pie

A motel restaurant in a tiny Utah town bakes this sweet and sour treat.
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Castagne del Prete
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Castagne del Prete

To do Christmas right, Italians turn to heavenly chestnuts.
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Christmas Cake and Cheese
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Christmas Cake and Cheese

In Yorkshire, the holidays usher in this salty-sweet combo.
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Sour Orange Pie
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Sour Orange Pie

Floridians baked this tangy treat before key lime took over the state's pie scene.
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Pemmican
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Pemmican

Touted as the original energy bar, the bison-based mixture kept for months.
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Smoked Puffin
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Smoked Puffin

This controversial meat is ingrained in ancient Nordic culture.
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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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Churchkhela
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Churchkhela

These delicious strands of juice-coated nuts look like colorful candlesticks.
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Chimney Cake
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Chimney Cake

After rotating over hot coals, the Transylvanian treat unravels in a sweet spiral.
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Tula Pryanik
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Tula Pryanik

These ornately decorated spice cookies developed alongside a Russian city's gun industry.
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Hverabrauð
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Hverabrauð

Iceland's thick, chewy "hot spring bread" is just like regular rye bread, with one big difference.
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Mari Lwyd
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Mari Lwyd

In Wales, midwinter is the right time to look a gift horse in its gaping skull-mouth.
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Kalakukko
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Kalakukko

Finally, an edible carrying case for fish.
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Pizza Berlusconi
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Pizza Berlusconi

The award-winning Finnish creation was inspired by a diss from Italy's former prime minister.
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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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Brie Noir
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Brie Noir

Brie's dark, older cousin can only be found in one region of France.
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