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Æbleskiver
Æbleskiver (aebleskiver, ebelskiver) are Danish round pancake puffs fried in a seven-well cast-iron pan, served with powdered sugar, jam, and gløgg at Christmas. Named "apple slices" after the original apple-filled medieval version; oldest printed recipe 1703.
Bhel puri
Bhel puri (भेल पूरी), or bhelpuri, is a Mumbai chaat of puffed rice, sev, vegetables, and tamarind, green, and garlic chutneys, with Gujarati-linked origins, wet (geeli) and dry (sukha) variants, and the Kolkata relative jhal muri.
Canapé
Canapé: a single-bite appetizer of bread, toast, or cracker with a savory topping; French for "couch". Distinguished from hors d'oeuvres by its required edible base; culinary use since late 18th-century France.
Chaat (चाट)
Chaat (चाट, Urdu چاٹ) is a family of savory South Asian street snacks, sold by vendors across India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, blending sweet, sour, spicy, and tangy flavors.
Croquette
Croquette: small breaded, deep-fried roll of minced meat, fish, potato, or vegetables bound with bechamel; French origin (Massialot 1691), Spanish croqueta, Dutch kroket, Japanese korokke.
Deep-fried butter
Deep-fried butter is a state fair food of frozen butter balls or sticks coated in dough and deep fried, created by Abel Gonzales Jr. at the 2009 State Fair of Texas, where it won Most Creative at the Big Tex Choice Awards.
Deep-fried Mars bar
Deep-fried Mars bar: a battered, deep-fried Mars chocolate bar from Scottish chip shops, credited to the Carron Fish Bar in Stonehaven (1992), a tourist symbol and stereotype of the Scottish diet.
Disco fries
Disco fries, a New Jersey diner dish of French fries topped with brown gravy and shredded mozzarella, named for 1970s clubgoers; the Tick Tock Diner in Clifton claims invention, and the dish is distinguished from poutine by its cheese.
Empanada
Empanada: a folded half-moon pastry of wheat or corn dough, baked or fried, with meat, seafood, vegetable, or sweet fillings; from Spanish empanar, widespread across Spain, Latin America, and the Philippines with strong regional variants like the salteña and tucumana.
Fried dough
Fried dough: sweet foods made by deep-frying flour-based dough in fat or oil, also called doughnuts, fry bread, or youtiao; defined by dough (not batter), festive origins, and three dough categories.
Frikandel
Frikandel (also frikadel, curryworst): skinless deep-fried Dutch/Belgian minced-meat snack, invented 1954 in Dordrecht by Gerrit de Vries; smooth 18 cm form by Bekkers 1958; ~600 million eaten yearly in the Netherlands.
Jamaican patty
The Jamaican patty, also known as the Jamaican beef patty, is a baked half-moon pastry from Jamaica with a flaky yellow crust and spiced beef filling.
Knish
Knish (Yiddish קניש), Ashkenazi Jewish baked or fried dough pastry filled with mashed potato, kasha, or onion; New York street food since about 1900, first knish bakery 1910.
Krupuk
Krupuk (kerupuk, keropok, kroepoek) is a Southeast Asian deep-fried starch cracker, usually tapioca with shrimp, fish, or garlic, documented in Java since the 9th-10th century and a major Indonesian snack and export.
List of snack foods
List of snack foods: foods eaten during snacks, spanning chips, candy, cookies, and fruit snacks. Covers definitions (NAL, FAO), examples from Oreo (1912) and Fritos (1932) to Go-Gurt (1999), US industry growth, and WHO nutrition guidance.
Minnesota sushi
Minnesota sushi is the nickname for pickle roll-ups: deli ham spread with cream cheese, wrapped around a dill pickle, sliced into rounds. Also called Midwest or Lutheran sushi; a Midwestern potluck staple, not actual sushi.
Murtabak (مطبق)
Murtabak (مطبق, muṭabbaq, "folded") is a stuffed pan-fried flatbread with spiced minced meat, egg, and onion, from Arabia and Yemen, spread via Indian Ocean trade; called martabak in Indonesia, where martabak manis is a separate sweet pancake.
Panipuri (पानीपूरी)
Panipuri (पानीपूरी), also called golgappa, puchka/fuchka, or gupchup, is a South Asian street snack of hollow fried puris filled with potato or chickpeas and flavored pani water, eaten in one bite; regional versions differ in filling, water, and name.
Panzerotti
Panzerotti (panzarotti) are small fried half-moons of leavened dough filled with tomato and mozzarella, a Puglia street food especially of Bari; the word, from panza (belly), is first dated 1797, and baked versions are properly calzoni.
Papadam
Papadam (pappadam, appalam, papad, poppadom) is a thin South Asian lentil or starch wafer, fried or roasted; black-gram Kerala pappadam puffs in oil, Tamil appalam stays flat.
Pigs in a blanket
Pigs in a blanket: in the US, sausages or hot dogs baked in dough; in the UK, bacon-wrapped sausages served at Christmas. Also called pigs in blankets; earliest cited print use is Betty Crocker's 1957 Cooking for Kids.
Pincho
Pincho (Basque pintxo) is a small Basque bar snack, typically bread topped with food held by a skewer, invented in 1930s San Sebastián; famous example the gilda; eaten bar-to-bar, paid per piece, distinct from free tapas.
Ploughman's lunch
Ploughman's lunch: a cold British pub meal of bread, cheese, pickle and salad. Named by the Cheese Bureau in 1957 to sell cheese after rationing, though bread, cheese and ale were field workers' food for centuries.
Pork rind
Pork rind, also called chicharrón, cracklin, or pork scratching, is dehydrated pork skin deep-fried until puffy and crisp. High-protein, zero-carb snack; U.S. sales near $273 million in 2018.
Potato chips
Potato chips, or crisps, thin fried or baked potato slices popularized as Saratoga chips from 1853; low-sugar varieties like Atlantic, acrylamide mitigation, and US per capita use of 18.1 lb distinguish the snack.
Prawn cracker
Prawn cracker (krupuk udang, keropok udang, bánh phồng tôm, kropeck): a Southeast Asian deep-fried snack of tapioca starch, shrimp and seasonings, steamed, sliced, dried, and puffed in hot oil; Codex protein grades and Thai market size distinguish it.
Saltine cracker
Saltine cracker (also soda cracker, soda biscuit): thin, square, perforated US cracker of white flour, baking soda and/or yeast, shortening, coarse salt topping; first made by F.L. Sommer in 1876, part of Nabisco from 1898.
Samosa
Samosa (sanbusaj, sambusa, samsa): a triangular fried or baked pastry of stiff unleavened dough with spiced filling, originating in 10th-century Middle Eastern meat pastries, adopted in India, now a global snack with a USD 7.1 billion market.
Snack
Snack: a small serving of food or drink eaten between meals; also called snacking. Distinguished by no fixed scientific definition, ~24% of US adult calories, protein-rich snacks giving the strongest satiety, and mixed evidence on weight.
Spam musubi
Spam musubi, also called SPAM musubi (スパムむすび), is a Hawaiian snack of grilled Spam on a pressed block of plain rice wrapped in nori, adapted from Japanese onigiri and popularized in Hawaii in the 1980s.