Once a year, communities on the tiny island gather to preserve the art of making licorice-flavored apple butter.

The Catalan green onion has its own festival.

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

Eating these unpredictable tapas is a game of spicy-pepper roulette.

The anus-shaped fruit tastes like cinnamon applesauce.

The Greek island's volcanic soil produces an intensely fragrant, sweet crop.

The washed and dried root of the licorice plant was once a popular natural “candy.”

This star-shaped fruit has been beloved for centuries.

Grown in the volcanic soil around Mt. Vesuvius, these tomatoes are one of only a couple varieties used in authentic Neapolitan pizza.

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

This protected German fruit has its own representative queen.

The melon has its own sculpture, festival, and order of knights.

This sweet, slender eggplant grows only in a Greek valley.

England's annual event features relays, trebuchets, and Russian egg roulette.

A medieval food fight supposedly inspired this annual competition.

This French marathon has regular stops for wine, cheese, and oysters.

After the giant food fight is over, fire trucks are needed to hose down the sauce-filled streets.

Goggles are a good idea at this wine-slinging battle.

A brotherhood is behind this 15,000-egg tradition.

The townspeople of Coxheath have been hurling pies at one another since 1967.

At this Scottish porridge-making competition, contestants vie to be the champions of breakfast.

At this annual event, the bitter sweet enhances everything from sausages to pies to clothing.

Every July, a seaside town pays homage to its local mollusks with eating contests, a marine-themed parade, and plenty of fresh seafood.

Welcome to the olympics of oyster shucking.