Hamantaschen

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cookies, Food, Hamantaschen, jelly filled, Jewish, oreilles d'aman, Purim, triangular

Hamantaschen (Jewish)

Hamantaschen (known as oreilles d’aman in French) are triangular, jelly-filled cookies that Jews traditionally eat for the Purim holiday. They are made to resemble the hat or ears of Haman, the villain of the Purim story who tried and failed to destroy every last Jew in Persia. Purim is celebrated with costumes, food and drink and the consumption of Hamanstachen. Making these cookies are easy and a wonderful activity for your children to help you. Make the dough from any standard recipe and fill with traditional poppy seeds or jams, jellies or chocolate.

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Erwtensoep

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Amsterdam, carrots, Celery, Dutch, Dutch bacon, Erwtensoep, Food, katenspek, leeks, Netherlands, pea soup, pork, rookworst, rye bread, smoked sausage, Snert, split peas, vertical spoon, very thick, winter

Erwtensoep (Amsterdam)

Erwtensoep or snert is a very thick pea soup, made from split peas, celery, leeks, carrots and pork. Erwtensoep is traditionally eaten during the winter with slices of rookworst (smoked sausage) and rye bread with katenspek (Dutch bacon cooked then smoked). The Dutch consider erwtensoep ready to eat when it’s thick enough that your spoon stands vertically. Hence, erwtensoep is traditionally eaten the day after it is made when the flavors are better mixed and the soup is at its thickest.

Kao Rou

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burning coal, chinese, Food, heavily spiced, kao rou, meat, traditional

Kao Rou (China)

Kao Rou is the standard serving of meat in China and may be one of the most well known traditional Chinese dish available. Kao Rou is heavily spiced and available at all restaurants and street carts. It is often cooked over burning coal. You can get any kind of meat available on these sticks: lamb, beef, chicken, seafood, gizzards and meat Westerners wouldn’t happily eat.

Fruitopia

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Australia, beverage, Canada, Coca-Cola, Drink, Food, Fruitopia, Germany, low sales, soft drink

Fruitopia (Coca-Cola)

What was once a staple for many fans, Coca-Cola discontinued the fruit-flavored drink in the U.S. due to a lack of sales. For fans who are seriously missing the drink, you need to find yourself a German, Australian or Canadian friend. All flavors of Fruitopia are found in abundance in all these countries and Coca Cola has no problem maintaining sales there.

Oatmeal Swirlers

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1990s, apple cinnamon, breakfast, cherry, Food, General Mills, jelly, oatmeal, Oatmeal Swirlers, strawberry

Oatmeal Swirlers (General Mills)

In the 1990s, General Mills combined a healthy breakfast of oatmeal with fun (sweet jelly) to help kids to love breakfast. Swirls of jelly were added atop the oatmeal and helped kids start the day creatively. Flavors were Strawberry, Cherry and Apple-Cinnamon.

Bat Paste

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Bat Paste, boiling milk, boiling water, China, chopped, delicacy, Food, fox bats, fruit bats, Guam, live, mouse bats, Thai herbs and spices, Thailand

Bat Paste (Thailand)

In Thailand (and parts of China and Guam) they drop live mouse, fruit or fox bats into a pot of boiling water or milk. When the bat is roasted to its desired “doneness,” the bat is chopped and made into a paste with Thai herbs and spices.

Boodog

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Boodog, cooked in its skin, Food, goat, hot stones, marmot, Mongolia, stomach

Boodog (Mongolia)

Boodog is a marmot or a goat cooked with hot stones in the stomach. Khorkhog also uses hot stones to cook the meat, but it cuts the meat into pieces. Boodog does not; the stones are fitted into the stomach of the animal so that the meat is cooked within its own skin.

Instructions on how are online.

Life Saver Holes

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candy, children, chunky, custom creations, donut, doughnut holes, fatter, Food, Kraft, Life Saver Holes, packaging recall, Pixar, Tic Tac, vibrant

Life Saver Holes (Kraft Foods, 1990)

Who doesn’t love eating the holes from doughnuts? Life Savers tried to copy the idea and make some more cash on the side.

They weren’t actually the middles of Life Savers candies, they were custom creations to resemble middles. The flavors of the middles were often the same, but described as more “vibrant.” Many of the commercials for Life Saver Holes were created by Pixar, yes, the geniuses behind some of Disney’s best modern day children’s films. (This was before Pixar had a hit with Toy Story when they had the time to take on outside projects before becoming a Disney machine.) The ads presented the middles as “the children” of a regular Life Saver and the “kids” were a bundle of energy! Life Saver Holes may look like a Tic Tac, but they are fatter and chunkier. Kids were head over heels in love.

No one knows quite why or when Life Saver Holes died out. The only information I can find is a packaging recall, but that shouldn’t have killed a product completely.

Mageu

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commercially available, fermented, flavored, Food, home production, lactic acid, Mageu, mealie pap, non-alcoholic, South Africa, sweetened

Mageu (South Africa)

Mageu is a non-alcoholic drink of South Africa made from fermented mealie pap. Home production is widely practised but is increasingly being made commercially available at many supermarkets produced from local factories. The taste is derived predominantly from the lactic acid produced during fermentation. Commercial Mageu is also often flavored and sweetened much like commercially available yogurt. Similar beverages are also made throughout Africa.

Banitsa

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Banitsa, boza, breakfast, Bulgaria, Food, pastry, white cheese

Banitsa (Bulgaria)

Banitsa in any form is part of a traditional Bulgarian breakfast. Banitsa is a greasy pastry dish that can be purchased in all Bulgarian bakeries. Its standard filling is a feta-like white cheese. Other fillings include onions, cabbage, spinach, mushrooms or pumpkin. Sweeter versions are filled with apples or walnuts. Bulgarians combine banitsa with boza, a thick fermented wheat drink.