The Disgusting Food Museum Will Test Your Limits

"A visit begins with a barf bag, a bingo card and a challenge: a pungent odor (described as ammonia mixed with moldy cheese) and a chalkboard vomit counter—14 days since the last incident at the time of the visit—immediately test your senses. The bright, science‑lab–like, open‑plan interior presents about 80 of the world’s most notorious foods, displayed as real specimens or replicas in jars and glass cases with multilingual plaques and occasional smell jars; offerings range from chunky whipped animal fat, crispy fried crickets and milky carbonated soda to fermented shark and salty licorice. The curation probes why foods disgust, highlighting ingredient‑based revulsion (gomutra, Rocky Mountain oysters), preparation methods that unsettle (casu marzu with maggots, su callu sardu matured in a baby goat’s stomach), and ethical objections (foie gras, drowned baby mice elixirs, ikizukuri). Cultural context and familiarity are emphasized—items that horrify some may be delicacies to others—and visitors can test their limits at a tasting bar with rotating oddities (century eggs, durian, fermented shark, crunchy insects and even a waiver‑required super‑hot sauce). The overall experience blends gag‑inducing spectacle with informative anthropology, inviting guests to reconsider personal and cultural boundaries around what counts as food." - Tawny Clark