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

This tasty Czech pastry is now a Texan tradition.

Bess Truman made this dessert for Winston Churchill after his “Iron Curtain” speech.

A crispy cookie from South Carolina, first introduced during the slave trade.

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

A World War I sugar shortage led an inventor to make a very cherry soda that looks like wine.

A New Year's Eve tradition of scarfing down 12 grapes for good luck.

The Japanese soda still comes in a marble-stoppered bottle from the 19th century.

Beekeepers in the United States' southeastern swamplands are fighting to preserve this smooth, sweet delicacy.

Produced since 1847, these classic New England candies almost disappeared in 2018.

A complexly flavored post-meal digestive became the candy of choice for Indian children in the 1980s and ’90s.

This Mexican candy reimagines a spaghetti dinner with spicy-sour gummy noodles and tamarind sauce.

A casserole of cheesy, corn flake–topped tubers offers comfort to Mormons in mourning.

A pharmaceutical company developed this beverage as drinkable IV solution.

Detroit's signature soda shake blends Vernors ginger ale with vanilla ice cream.

The Detroit favorite is one of the oldest sodas in the United States.

Pastrami fans will find the taste of this Canadian spice blend very familiar.

These pink cookies are destined to be dunked in champagne.

This dark, sweet refresher was born at a now-defunct amusement park on the shores of Lake Erie.

Once made by monks, this candy spends 15 days rolling in sugar syrup to get its pearly-white shell.

One fantasy food's journey from sci-fi vegan steak to silver screen cannibalism to actual meal replacement.

Candy makers recently resurrected this crispy Chicago confection from the graveyard of vintage sweets.

Popular in colonial New England, this “apple molasses” is now made by only a handful of commercial producers.

This candy rarely ventures beyond Canada's borders.