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1Worcestershire sauce

Worcestershire sauce

Worcestershire sauce is made by mixing 18-month old anchovies (fishes) cured in salt for several months, onions and garlic pickled in malt vinegar for two years, then aged further in salt, vinegar, tamarind concentrate, and other spices.


2Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

In Singapore, there is a drink known as a "Michael Jackson", made from white soy milk and black jelly.


3Xylitol

Xylitol

Xylitol is a sugar alcohol rapidly growing in popularity for it's benefits to human health, is highly toxic to dogs and several other animals. A dose of only a teaspoon can be fatal to even large breed dogs.


4Apple pie

Apple pie

When serving apple pie in Vermont, you must make a good faith effort to serve it with a glass of cold milk, a slice of cheddar cheese of at least 0.5 oz in weight, or a large scoop of vanilla ice cream.


5Whole stuffed camel

Whole stuffed camel

The largest menu item in the world is the roasted camel, claimed to be a traditional Bedouin wedding dish. Like turducken; the steps are: “cook eggs and stuff into fish, cook the fish and stuff into cooked chickens, stuff the chickens into roasted sheep, stuff the sheep into a whole camel that is cooked to taste.”


6Mett

Mett

Mett (raw minced pork) is a popular dish in Germany, which is eaten for breakfast on bread rolls with chopped raw onions or alternatively shaped as a hedgehog, where sliced raw onions form the spikes.


7Shepherd's pie

Shepherd's pie

Shepherd's pie is made with minced lamb or mutton, while one with minced beef is properly called a cottage pie.


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8Ikizukuri

Ikizukuri

Ikizukuri is a form of sushi where the fish is scaled, filleted, and served alive.


9Snickers salad

Snickers salad

There is a salad in Iowa, USA called a Snickers salad. It consists of chopped up Snicker bars, Granny Smith apples, and a whipped topping.


10London Broil

London Broil

“London Broil” is a North American culinary method of cooking certain cuts of beef, which have no traditional basis in the UK. There’s nothing “London” about a London Broil.

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