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Disgusting museum showcases world’s most revolting foods including bull testicles and maggot-infested cheese
The cuisine on offer Disgusting Food Museum in Malmo, Sweden, will have some people dry heaving in utter disgust
MAGGOT infested cheese, frog smoothies and baby mice are all on the menu at a new museum showcasing revolting foods.
Hungry visitors to the newly opened Disgusting Food Museum in Malmo, Sweden, can also have the opportunity to feast on bull’s penis and some tasty testicles.
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No less than 80 of the most grotesque dishes from around the globe are on show.
Exhibition curator Samuel West said: “Disgust is one of the six fundamental human emotions, and the evolutionary function of disgust is to help us to avoid foods that might be dangerous, that are contaminated, toxic, gone off.
“Disgust is hardwired as an emotion but what we find disgusting is culturally learned.”
Mr West hopes the exhibition will encourage people to try more sustainable food products like insects and lab-grown meat.
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Visitors are encouraged to tuck into “balut” a partially developed duck fetuses that are boiled inside the egg and eaten straight from a shell in the Philippines.
Putrid fermented herring called “surstromming” which is enjoyed in Sweden can be sampled.
The whole concept is to show visitors that while a certain food is considered normal in one region it is perceived as disgusting in an another.
Swedish visitors are surprised to find salty licorice, popular in Sweden but perceived as disgusting to many others.
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American favourites include Jell-O salad, made of gelatin and typically fruit, canned pork brains with milk gravy.
And root beer, a sweet soft drink which Swedes say tastes like toothpaste.
Mr West added: “I think that by turning the lens onto ourselves, on Swedish or American food culture, we are saying, ‘We treat everyone the same.’”
He even joked he vomits every day when preparing the exhibition.
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Hakan Jonsson, a Lund University ethnology professor who helped with research for the exhibition, said notions of what people find delicious and disgusting are already changing.
He said: “A lot of big groups in the Western world are all of a sudden thinking, 'Meat has become disgusting, something that I could never put into my mouth'.
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“And that is something quite new in the history here, where something considered as being normal, and prestigious - being the thing that you were aiming for Sunday - and all of a sudden that had become a matter of disgust for many people.”
The Disgusting Food Museum will run until January 27 at the Slagthuset MMX in Malmo.
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