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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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Salt Cellars
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Salt Cellars

These embellished containers didn’t just sit pretty on the table; they determined social standing.
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Garlic Ice Cream
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Garlic Ice Cream

In Gilroy, California, garlic flavors everything, including desserts.
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Teaberry Ice Cream
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Teaberry Ice Cream

This Pennsylvania specialty sometimes looks like Pepto-Bismol and smells like Bengay.
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 Vernors Ginger Soda
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Vernors Ginger Soda

The Detroit favorite is one of the oldest sodas in the United States.
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Feast of the Hunters' Moon
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Feast of the Hunters' Moon

The autumn event re-creates meals shared by French settlers and Native Americans at an 18th-century fort.
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Kopstootje
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Kopstootje

The Dutch drinking ritual begins with a glass of genever and ends with a “little head-butt.”
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Turkish Coffee
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Turkish Coffee

Locals joke that you should be able to “float a horseshoe” on the thick brew.
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Musk Sticks
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Musk Sticks

This classic Australian candy looks like pink toothpaste and tastes like perfume.
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Moxie
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Moxie

This cure-all-turned-soda once outsold Coca-Cola.
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Angulas
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Angulas

What look like noodles are actually delicious baby eels.
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Sugar on Snow
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Sugar on Snow

Where maple sap flows, all one needs to make taffy is snow.
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The Zombie
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The Zombie

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

This bright green cocktail doubles as dessert.
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Peyote
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Peyote

Mexican and American Indians have a long history with this powerful cactus.
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Orbitz
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Orbitz

This drink hasn't been produced since the late nineties, but still has a cult following.
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