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Even though the national diet is dominated by such healthy staples as hamburgers, hot dogs and the ever-lengthening sub-sandwich-gyro-hero-whathaveyou, smaller areas have some incredibly specific and gross-sounding local foods. Like Hawaii’s spam Musubi, seen at right, or Western Alaska’s Akutaq, an ice cream-like food made from whipped fat, berries, sugar and meat. Read all about [...]