Featuring Foods from Different Cultures, The Disgusting Food Museum Gives Visitors a Chance to Experience Tastes and Smells from Around the World
“The Greatest Pleasures are only Narrowly Separated from Disgust.” – Cicero
…and The Disgusting Food Museum is ready to prove it! Maggot infested cheese? Bull Testicle? Sheep Eyeball? These may sound disgusting to you, but they are delicacies in other cultures. The museum encourages its attendees to take this culinary journey by the reigns and dig in and learn that disgust is not universal.
The Disgusting Food Museum is brought to you by the folks behind the Museum of Failure’s pop-up in Downtown Los Angeles. Curator, Dr. Samuel West is a licensed clinical psychologist and PhD in organizational psychology focusing on innovation. West hopes beyond the “yuck,” “gross,” and “vile” gasps from visitors, people will think about how some of these atypical protein sources may also make a sustainable food source in the future.
The Disgusting Food Museum, featuring the most provocative foods from around the world, is opening its doors in Los Angeles for visitors to see, smell, and even taste (if they dare) international foods. The Disgusting Food Museum is not just an exhibit, but a celebration of food from around the world highlighting how different cultures may or may not view certain things as disgusting.
The Disgusting Food Museum will introduce its visitors to worldwide delicacies from 80 diverse food exhibits that include:
- Frog smoothies from Peru
- Maggot cheese from Sardinia
- The notoriously smelly fruit, the Durian, from Thailand
- Surströmming, the infamous putrid sea herring dish from Sweden
- Mouse Wine, drowned baby mice in rice wine from China
Foodies, travelers, and the just plain curious can explore unfamiliar food creations, smell new and face-cringing aromas and try select samples at the far from usual grand finale tasting bar! Amazing and bizarre Instagramable moments are endless at the internationally known museum.
First displayed in Sweden, the exotic collection of foods was conceived and curated by psychologist, Dr. Samuel West, well-known as “Dr. Failure” after the runaway success of his Museum of Failure. Dr. West wanted to create an exhibit focused on exploring the shared human experience of disgust and expand the discussion of more environmentally sustainable proteins of the future such as insects and lab-grown meats. “The museum aims to change our view of what is disgusting or not and expose our minds to what is known as normal in other cultures,” says Dr. Samuel West.
This iteration of the museum has been designed by the A+D Architecture and Design Museum and produced by Special Entertainment Events (SEE). “After the success of The Museum of Failure, we’re looking forward to once again joining Dr. West on another exciting journey of intriguing, unusual, unconventional, and hugely entertaining concepts,” says Martin Biallas, President of SEE.
The Disgusting Food Museum will be on exhibit December 9, 2018 to February 17, 2019 at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum, 900 E 4th St, Los Angeles, CA 90013. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.disgustingfoodmuseum.com.
