This cousin of root beer has a long history and a surprisingly minty taste.

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

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

They're a Baltimore-specific guilty pleasure.

A cake as dark as a city hiding from enemy bombers.

Donn Beach only wrote the recipe for his famously potent cocktail in secret code.

Beneath its "cover-up" of icing, this dessert hides a bunch of nuts.

This Chicago specialty stacks three cakes into one monster dessert.

The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a classic Midwestern treat!

Only in Albany do people dip in raspberry sauce.

This dessert island is known for its refined layer cakes.

With extra-gooey cheese and a cracker-thin crust, some say it's more like nachos.

In the 1970s, housewives stabbed their cakes and filled the holes with Jell-O.

Everything St. Louisans love about this local specialty is in the name.

Fluffy, crispy, and large enough to share, it's no ordinary pancake.

It's part cheeseburger, part enchilada, and smothered in a Pueblo, Colorado, specialty.

A watermelon-and-bubblegum-flavored treat courtesy of Mexico's favorite cactus.

Indiana's unofficial state pie was once a desperate measure.

Elvis Presley once flew across the country to eat this decadent Denver sandwich.

During the Great Depression, Canadian women made “unemployed-person pudding.”

This cosmic-colored flavor is a Midwestern mystery.

In the 1920s, confectioners thought the public wanted candy that looked like legumes—and they were right.

Made with reindeer meat and topped with Coca-Cola-glazed onions, this snack once drew lines down the block in Anchorage.