The Disgusting Food Museum Aims To Gross You Out

Have a taste for nasty food? Then you’re in luck because there’s just the museum for you. Known as the Disgusting Food Museum — located in Malmo, Sweden — visitors can experience “80 of the world’s most disgusting foods.”

The museum includes casu marzu (maggot-infested pecorino cheese from Sardinia) and fermented shark meat that is Iceland’s national dish. There will also be balut, a hardboiled fertilized duck egg that’s eaten as street food in the Philippines, and root beer, which is widely considered disgusting outside of the United States.

The museum even features a raw bull’s penis on a cutting board and roasted guinea pig from Peru. Visitors will basically receive a tour of each continent’s most unappealing offerings.

Samuel West, an organizational psychologist and mastermind behind the Helsingborg’s Museum of Failure, hops that with this new project, people will think about what disgusts them, and then question why.

“We need to question our ideas of disgust if we’re going to consider some of the more environmentally friendly sources of protein, like insects,” West said in an interview with The Local.

The aim of the museum is to dive into the world of disgust and change the way people eat.

“The main aim is that it is fun, interesting, and interactive,” West said. “You can taste, smell, and in certain cases, even touch the food.”

By: Maytinee Kramer