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Here are just a few of the international versions of some of our favorite snack foods. Some of these flavors are really out there!

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Mojito Pepsi Max
The Mojito is a classic cocktail that hails from Cuba that takes full advantage of its homeland's fields of sugarcane. By combining rum, mint, lime, plenty of sugar, and a splash of club soda, Cuba invented one of the most refreshing drinks to get drunk to. Pepsi used the Mojito as the basis for a soda flavor that sounds so delicious and so refreshing that is truly a wonder why it isn't sold stateside. Mojito flavored Pepsi Max just sounds like a perfect cocktail mixer. Add a little rum and ice and you've got a fantastic cross between a Mojito and a Cuba Libre, which is Coke or Pepsi mixed with a little bit of rum and lime. By adding a little alcohol you're getting two delicious cocktails in one. Mojito flavored Pepsi Max would be a hit every party in America.

Taco Bell's Chocolate Quesadilla, The Chocodilla
Say what you will about Taco Bell but you have to admit that they are innovators. For decades they've reinvented the wheel that is Tex-Mex cuisine time and time again, and in the silliest ways possible. Every time you think they've reached the mathematical limit of variations on the meat/tortilla/cheese combination someone in their research and development department has an epiphany, a vision from high above, of a brand-new, never before conceived way to present the same three ingredients. They even carry over this approach to the dessert options on their menus. Throughout Spain and various South American countries, for example, Taco Bell sells the Chocodilla, a flour tortilla filled with chocolate chips that has been folded in half and grilled like a quesadilla. It's a simple innovation but we absolutely needed in America. On top of that, Taco Bells in the UK sell a variation of the Chocodilla, and theirs takes its inspiration from Taco Bell's crunch wrap rather than the quesadilla. It's a grilled tortilla hexagon filled with chocolate and fluffy pink marshmallows. Let's amend this entry by saying that Taco Bell needs to bring both of these desserts to America.

Mango Pudding Donut from Dunkin' Donuts in China
When it comes to donuts of course China is going to have some weird flavors. Seaweed and pork is one of them, and that sounds like the least appetizing donut of all time. The racks of Chinese donut stores are filled with gross out items that sound almost specifically designed to turn off American eaters. But Chinese Dunkin' Donuts fans gobble up a flavor that plenty of Americans would love to see at their neighborhood donut shop: Mango pudding. The name is pretty self-explanatory, but let's paint the food picture anyway: it's a normal glazed doughnut that's topped with a thick creamy helping of soothingly sweet mango pudding. And we mean thick. In Singapore they sell a slight variation on the mango pudding donut that has a base of a dark chocolate cake doughnut and on top is what appears to be a full freestanding inch of gorgeous mango pudding. Your teeth have to sliced through a whole lot of mango deliciousness before they even reach the donut. Dunkin' Donuts, please bring this to America. If anything just sell it in cities with high Latin populations. They've grown up with mango throughout their lives and would quickly deplete all mango pudding donut resources in short order.

Blueberry Ice Cream Oreo
Oreos are internationally renowned for being awesome. Hardly anyone can resist the temptation of two dark chocolatey cookies with a delicious cream between them. If you've ever had a chocolate covered blueberry you know firsthand how great a blueberry ice cream flavor Oreo can be. Usually sold in Asian countries, specifically Japan, the blueberry ice cream Oreo is a crazy attempt to capture three distinct flavors of dessert in one package you can buy at a grocery store. Why settle for a blueberry or ice cream or an Oreo as separate experiences when you can combine them all one delicious Frankenstein of the cookie? Often times the flavor profile missing from an Oreo is refreshment, that sense of cooling you get from a bowl of ice cream. No, blueberry ice cream Oreos aren't stuffed with literal ice cream, it's just a flavor profile designed to emulate the ice cream experience, but the base experience, we imagine, would remain the same. A light and sweet bitterness cut with chocolate and all with an added level of creaminess – c'mon, Americans would love that.

Cheesecake Kit Kats
It's no secret that Kit Kat spoils Japan with a bounty of flavors, while in America we are stuck with a measly two or three, at most. While it would be cool if Nestlé started selling their entire line of Japanese can flavors stateside we understand that may not be the most realistic prospect. So let's just pick one. There are a lot of good candidates, like cinnamon cookie, and others that Japan can keep, like red bean sandwich, whatever that is. But the two flavors of Kit Kat that would be perfect for American palates are the cheesecake flavors, blueberry and strawberry. They'd be huge in America. We even have a chain of restaurants called The Cheesecake Factory erected in honor of a beloved dessert item. If you had been told these were sold exclusively in Japan you would've figured they were already being sold in America. So come on Nestlé: stop holding out with the cheesecake Kit Kats!

A few other international treats: avocado salad Cheetos, Burger King's Churrasquito Sandwich, Skittles Mints, Numb and Spicy Hot Pot Flavored Lays Chips, Duo Dulce de Leche and Banana Oreos, Fanta Apple and Pear Flavor, Yogurt and Mint Doritos, and Hazelnut Snickers.

Finished!

Some of these foreign versions of beloved American foods sound really intriguing, while others…well…they sound a little odd but we're still curious to see how they taste. We'd definitely like to see some of these flavors introduced here in the U.S.

Happy Snacking!

Article Source: Grunge