This sweet, cheese-filled Norwegian flatbread keeps Nordlanders nourished during the long winter.

The candy is huge with Norwegian hikers and skiers.

A candy made with chocolate, coconut and ... mashed potatoes?

Ground nuts provide the base for this warm, caffeine-free drink.

In Houston, Vietnamese chefs offer a unique take on the “mud bug.”

One of America's earliest candies is still available to buy.

In the 19th century, Chinese immigrants developed an early New England fusion sandwich that is divisive as it is salty.

Northeast Indian markets sell this glittery, sour fruit in bags with salt chasers.

This velvety, vintage treat still has a fan base in Maryland.

The rich, potato-filled dish nourished Catholics on meatless Fridays.

This palm fruit has a surprisingly meaty flavor.

This fruit either burns your throat or tastes like a tropical medley.

The most venerated cheese curl in the world. 

Binghamton celebrates its sandwich of marinated meat cubes at a yearly hot air balloon festival.

Connecticut's state fish is cooked using a special “planking” technique.

Behind a bare-bones concrete exterior and amid crumbling walls, a cafe serves what may be Ahmedabad's sweetest buns.

Devoted fans pay thousands for bricks of this fermented tea.

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

When half of Barbados’s national dish migrated across maritime borders, drama ensued.

These expensive and dangerous-to-harvest barnacles were once confused for goose eggs.

This phallic, giant clam is the culinary crown jewel of the Pacific Northwest.

It takes patience and skill to harvest these delicious bivalves.

From postwar dessert to sweet slice of Canadian identity.

Around British Columbia's Osoyoos Lake, community efforts have revived the population of a fluorescent fish.