These Japanese sweets demonstrate the ephemeral beauty of the seasons.

These pull-apart rolls were once baked with lottery tickets in the center.

These pink cookies are destined to be dunked in champagne.

This sugar-soaked South Asian sweet isn’t your basic bread pudding.

At last, a street snack that brings together Doritos, veggies, pickled pig skin, and gummies.

These Polish pre-Lent doughnuts have taken on a life (and an eating contest) of their own in the United States.

No Bonfire Night is complete without a cup of this warm, vinegar-flavored snack.

Neither tea nor hot chocolate, this Caribbean cocoa drink is in a league of its own.

This Canadian favorite is relatively unknown elsewhere.

This New Year's luck-bringer has a controversial contemporary taste.

A small village in Bulgaria is working to revive its nearly extinct moldy cheese.

The candy is huge with Norwegian hikers and skiers.

On Tibetan New Year, deep-fried cookies take the form of auspicious symbols and festive snacks.

The sweet-and-sour soda almost disappeared with the collapse of communist rule in then-Czechoslovakia.

In the 19th century, tin miners ate these handheld pies and left their crusts to appease mischievous, mine-dwelling spirits.

A sweet and sticky accident from Derbyshire, England.

Grandmas fashion this near-forgotten Passover treat from ginger and honey.

Say “roll eggs” super fast in Uganda and you'll receive something far tastier than a luxury watch.

Smashing this pink candy pig with a tiny hammer is a Christmas tradition in Saratoga Springs.

With this egg-based Christmas dessert, Portuguese pastelarias celebrate a bloodsucking fish.

Finish all your Latvian peas for good luck in the New Year.

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

A Thunder Bay bakery misnamed this berry-frosted cinnamon bun after General John Pershing.

Take the name of this street treat literally.