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The clementine is a happy accident: a cross of mandarin and sweet orange that sprang up in an orphanage garden at Misserghin, near Oran in Algeria. It was named in 1902 after the brother who tended it, Clément Rodier.
📍 Hilo, Hawaii
Rice, a burger patty and brown gravy, now crowned with a fried egg: loco moco was first served in 1949 at the Lincoln Grill in Hilo, Hawaii. Teen regulars named it after a friend nicknamed 'Crazy' (loco in Spanish).
📍 Jevington, East Sussex, England
Banana + toffee = banoffee. The pie was created in 1971 at the Hungry Monk restaurant in the English village of Jevington. When supermarkets later sold it as an 'American pie', the owner offered £10,000 to anyone who could prove it wasn't English.
📍 Southern Brazil & Uruguay
New Zealanders love feijoas so much that many think they are a Kiwi fruit, but they come from the highlands of southern Brazil and Uruguay. Plants taken from Uruguay to France in 1890 later reached California and then New Zealand.
📍 Kasai, DR Congo (Kuba Kingdom)
Kuba cloth comes from the old Kuba Kingdom in the Kasai region of DR Congo. Men weave squares from raffia palm fibre, then women embroider them and snip the stitches into a soft pile that looks and feels like velvet.
📍 Sierra Leone & Guinea, West Africa
Cola drinks are named after the kola nut, a caffeine-rich seed of West African forest trees. The word comes from West African languages such as Temne (kola) and Mandinka (kolo), and kola nuts went into Coca-Cola in 1886.
📍 Yorubaland (SW Nigeria & Benin)
The shekere, a dried gourd wrapped in a net of beads or cowrie shells, comes from the Yoruba of West Africa; an 1852 Yoruba dictionary already lists it. It later became a staple of Cuban and Brazilian music too.