is it possible to do markdown codeblocks?

i've tried various different ways to escape the backticks but can't seem to get it to work:

```mermaid
flowchart TD
    A("`foo \`bar\` baz`")
```
```mermaid
flowchart TD
    A("foo `bar` baz")
```
```mermaid
flowchart TD
    A("```foo `bar` baz```")
```