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Café Touba
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Café Touba

In Senegal, black coffee meets sugar ’n’ spice in one heady brew.
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Kaffeost
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Kaffeost

In northern Scandinavia, cups of coffee get enhanced with cheese.
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Grilled Bee Honeycomb With Larvae
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Grilled Bee Honeycomb With Larvae

The Laotian street food is mildly sweet and surprisingly juicy.
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Blackberry Jam Fruit
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Blackberry Jam Fruit

Inside a hard, yellow shell lies a sweet, black spread.
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Almojábano
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Almojábano

The most venerated cheese curl in the world. 
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Spiedies
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Spiedies

Binghamton celebrates its sandwich of marinated meat cubes at a yearly hot air balloon festival.
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Salema Porgy
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Salema Porgy

After dining on this fish, your next course might be 36 hours of hallucinations.
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Port Tongs
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Port Tongs

Sabering champagne doesn’t hold a candle to this method of cracking open wine bottles with red-hot iron.
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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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St. Martin's Croissant
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St. Martin's Croissant

Bakers fold this Polish pastry 81 times into the shape of a horseshoe.
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Termite Mound Ovens
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Termite Mound Ovens

Once the bugs have moved on, termite towers can be used for outdoor bread baking.
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Kuli-Kuli
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Kuli-Kuli

In Nigeria, ground peanuts become spicy, deep-fried nuggets and noodles.
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Kapsalon
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Kapsalon

This melting-pot munchie combines fries, shawarma, melted cheese, garlic sauce, and spicy sambal.
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Jucy Lucy
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Jucy Lucy

This beef patty oozes cheese from within.
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Chili Bomb
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Chili Bomb

Both a noun and an action, chili-bombing loads a pizza with tater tots, chili, and Cheez Whiz.
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Cotton Candy Grapes
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Cotton Candy Grapes

A crossbred table grape variety that tastes an awful lot like spun sugar.
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Jinshan Sulphuric Fire Fishing Festival
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Jinshan Sulphuric Fire Fishing Festival

See Taiwan's dying art of fishing with fire.
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Kräftskiva
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Kräftskiva

Don your party hat, sing, and chow down at these seasonal Swedish crayfish feasts.
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La Merengada
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La Merengada

This Spanish city gears up for Lent with a massive meringue fight.
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Cougar Gold Cheese
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Cougar Gold Cheese

This canned cheddar is made using a secret 70-year-old bacteria culture.
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British Burrito
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British Burrito

England's take on the Mexican meal wraps a Yorkshire pudding around meaty fillings.
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Ubuyu
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Ubuyu

These sweetened, dyed baobab seeds will leave your tongue red and tingling with flavor.
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Black Ivory Coffee
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Black Ivory Coffee

There's an elephant in the room when it comes to the world's most expensive brew.
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Akutuq
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Akutuq

Whipping snow, seal oil, and berries into a frosty treat takes a very deft hand.
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