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Dill Pickle Pizza
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Dill Pickle Pizza

This is one seriously polarizing pie.
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Lemon Stick
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Sweets

Lemon Stick

This taste bud befuddler is a signature Baltimore sweet.
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Carrageen Moss Pudding
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Carrageen Moss Pudding

This sweet, silky Irish pudding has a secret ingredient: seaweed.
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Ohio Pawpaw Festival
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Ohio Pawpaw Festival

This celebration of the largest edible fruit native to the United States features plenty of “pawpawpular” foods.
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Marlborough Pie
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Marlborough Pie

A custardy twist on apple pie finds delicious use for fruit reaching spoilage.
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D.C. Half and Half Marathon
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D.C. Half and Half Marathon

In a supreme test of gut and gam, runners must eat a half-smoke sausage with chips before completing a 13.1-mile race.
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Awful Awful
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Awful Awful

This Jersey-born frosty drink is now a Rhode Island favorite.
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Arkansas Black Apple
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Arkansas Black Apple

This dark, rare fruit lasts a very long time.
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Lancashire Courting Cake
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Lancashire Courting Cake

Before dating apps, young people used this cake to express their feelings.
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Lanzi's Cashew Nut & Rice Crunch
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Lanzi's Cashew Nut & Rice Crunch

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

One of the earliest fire-starting “technologies.”
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Mamba
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Mamba

The Haitian peanut butter first tastes creamy, then the peppers hit you.
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Tsamma Melon
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Tsamma Melon

This wild fruit helps man and beast survive long treks without water in the Kalahari desert.
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Saskatoons
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Saskatoons

Nutty and sweet, these juicy gems were once a valued trade commodity in the northern United States.
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Chapaya
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Chapaya

This palm fruit has a surprisingly meaty flavor.
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Canistel
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Canistel

The sweet and creamy “eggfruit” makes a great nog.
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Green Chartreuse
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Green Chartreuse

Only two silent monks know all 130 plants that go into this herbal liqueur.
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Pumpple Cake
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Pumpple Cake

Called the turducken of desserts, this multilayered cake hides two pies inside.
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Butternut Squash Sweets
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Butternut Squash Sweets

Near the exit of an old souk, a small shop has been making gourd-based goodies for generations.
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Sturm
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Sturm

Fizzy, fruity, and still fermenting, this almost-wine is a celebrated part of Austria's harvest season.
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Buchteln
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Buchteln

These pull-apart rolls were once baked with lottery tickets in the center.
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Pops' Root Beer Bread Pudding
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Pops' Root Beer Bread Pudding

This Route 66 institution goes the extra mile for soda-based indulgence.
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Jezebel Sauce
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Jezebel Sauce

Cooks in the Southern United States still whip up this spicy, seductively sweet condiment from the 1950s.
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North Georgia Candy Roaster Squash
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North Georgia Candy Roaster Squash

Bred by members of the Cherokee Nation, this heirloom American squash gets sweeter in storage.
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