America is a big place - about as big as Europe - so why wouldn't certain states and regions have their own foods?
Some foods followed ancestors from other countries. Some evolved out of necessity. Others cannot be explained as anything more than "weird."
Read on to discover the, shall we say, more unique foods being enjoyed across the U.S.
It's not as weird as it sounds: You eat chocolate in your croissants, muffins and pancakes. Why not melted over fluffy Southern biscuits made from scratch?
Mexican mole sauce, made with cocoa, is said to be the source of this Appalachia breakfast. As traders between the Tennessee Valley and Spanish Louisiana got to know one another, this Mexican-style breakfast chocolate became a thing.
A Yupik word for "mix them together," this dish is pronounced "a-goo-duk" and is simply "Eskimo ice cream," as it was called by the white men who first learned of the native food.
But Akutaq isn't ice cream in the sense you might think. This is made with anything Inuit hunters could find: moose meat, caribou meat and/or fish with the fat from animals, seal oil and berries for sweetness. The combination then gets frozen, as was easy to do when in the wilds of Alaska during the winter.
Today, sugar can be added and, as a dessert, it is a combination of berries and lard.
You'll find these at practically every roadside attraction gift shop across the state of Arizona: scorpion lollipops.
Actual scorpions are visible from inside a lollipop, so if you eat one, you will be eating a scorpion. It doesn't feel like the candy coating makes these any easier to stomach, though!
Have no fear! There is NO possum in possum pie!
This Arkansas dessert layers chocolate pudding and cream cheese mixed with sugar on a pecan shortbread crust and is topped with whipped cream and pecans.
Why is it called possum pie? Some say the chocolate hidden under the whipped cream is like a possum pretending to be something it's not. Make sense? It doesn't to us either, but who cares - it's delicious!
In the winter of 2011, a San Francisco fast-food restaurant decided to take the popular traditional sushi and make it conveniently handheld for on-the-go dining.
The result is a Sushiritto - sushi, cucumbers, wasabi and other traditional sushi items wrapped in rice and seaweed. The chain now operates six locations in San Fran and Silicon Valley.