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Túró Rudi
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Túró Rudi

Hungary's favorite chocolate bar is filled with cheese curd.
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Butterfly Pea Flower
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Butterfly Pea Flower

With a squeeze of lemon, this plant can turn any drink into a color-changing mood ring.
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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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Mauby
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Mauby

Caribbean tree bark gives this drink its bittersweet flavor.
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Chocolate Tea
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Chocolate Tea

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

Apples are red, blueberries are blue / But these pommes d’amour are red inside, too.
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Beach Plum Jelly
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Beach Plum Jelly

This tangy East Coast spread is becoming increasingly hard to find.
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Capybara
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Capybara

During Lent in Venezuela, the world's largest rodent becomes a “fish.”
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Dulce de Leche Cortada
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Dulce de Leche Cortada

This sweet, caramelized dessert comes from curdled milk.
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Pan de Jamón
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Pan de Jamón

In Venezuela, traditional Christmas bread marries ham, raisins, and olives.
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Goetta
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Goetta

From humble meat-hybrid to Cincinnati favorite.
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Nan-e Nokhodchi
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Nan-e Nokhodchi

Thank garbanzo beans for the melt-in-your-mouth texture of these Persian cookies.
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Hartshorn
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Hartshorn

Deer antlers were once essential to light and fluffy baking.
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Adjaruli Khachapuri
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Adjaruli Khachapuri

Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.
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Buckfast
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Buckfast

The caffeinated wine is made by British monks and loved by Scottish criminals.
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Koliva
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Koliva

Drooling over this nutty spiced dessert is a heretical move.
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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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Bedfordshire Clanger
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Bedfordshire Clanger

A double-ended British pastry that's both main course and dessert.
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Kendal Mint Cake
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Kendal Mint Cake

The original energy bar.
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Bovril
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Bovril

This "Fluid of Beef" fed an army and makes a hearty tea.
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Hanging Tomatoes
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Hanging Tomatoes

This tomato variety can stay fresh for six months after harvesting.
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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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Pule
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Pule

The world's most expensive cheese is made from Balkan donkey milk.
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Herring Under a Fur Coat
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Herring Under a Fur Coat

The most sobering salad of the Russian Civil War.
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