Bull’s penis, bat soup and ... foie gras: Disgusting Food Museum puts new spin on delicacies
- ‘If we grew up with something, we do not find it disgusting,’ says director of pop-up museum that puts delicacies from around the world on an equal footing
- Stomach-churning for some, the show in the Swedish city of Malmo uses sick bags as entry tickets
Cheese teeming with squirming maggots, sheep’s eye juice and mouse wine: the “Disgusting Food Museum” explores why a dish seems delicious to some, but for others is stomach-churning.
On show for three months at an old slaughterhouse in the southern Swedish city of Malmo, the exhibit – created by Samuel West, who previously served up the Museum of Failure – promises to shock the senses.
“Disgust is always subjective because it comes with what we grew up with. It’s kind of an indoctrination,” says museum director Andreas Ahrens. “If we grew up with something, we do not find it disgusting.”
To highlight the point, the exhibition puts foods from around the world on an equal footing, so lobster and foie gras are presented in the same way as chewy confectionery and rabbits’ heads.
