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The Disgusting Food Museum

Saturday, 20 October 2018, 15:45 BFH Uncategorized 66

I hesitate to ask this question, but I will put the qualifier in all caps. Here goes:

What is the most disgusting FOOD you’ve ever eaten?

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Feel like being ill? You could always visit the Disgusting Food Museum in Malmo, Sweden. Opening later this month, it will display 80 “disgusting” foods from around the world like Japanese cod sperm, Mexican tree-ant larvae, Chinese mouse wine—and classic American fare like Twinkies and root beer, the Washington Postreports. “If you give root beer to a European, they’re gonna spit it out and say ‘This tastes like toothpaste, it’s disgusting,'” says museum founder Samuel West, known for his Museum of Failure. “I want people to question what they find disgusting and realize that disgust is always in the eye of the beholder.” Even rotting food like fermented shark meat from Iceland can appeal to the right person, he points out. Which raises the question: Why do we feel disgust?

“The original evolutionary function of disgust is to protect us from dangerous, toxic foods, but disgust becomes so much bigger than that,” he tells Vox. Indeed, some visitors may be grossed out by foie gras—which requires ducks to be force-fed until their livers are vastly swollen—for purely moral reasons. Others might reconsider their diet of environmentally unsustainable meat, says West, though he’s neither vegan nor vegetarian himself. Either way, people can smell, taste, and occasionally touch the museum’s food, per the Local. But beware balut, the boiled Philippine dish that includes a partly developed duck fetus and amniotic fluid. West tried it: “I vomited,” he says.

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66 Comments on The Disgusting Food Museum

  1. Simple personal answer: Broccoli
    Most disgusting “food” I’ve seen eaten (by a fellow sailor at NAS Agana Guam in the 1970s):
    Balut (as mentioned in the above article Balut is a developing bird embryo that is boiled and eaten from the shell)

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  2. There wasn’t enough San Miguel beer in the Philippines to ever get me to eat a balut. Two of the more creative dishes, one by my mother in law who made a tuna quiche only once and my mom made a zucchini casserole once that looked and smelled like baby puke but my mom and my dad and my Uncle none of who had any taste buds since they were all over 80 liked it, my daughter and I hated it, it was awful. And creamed tuna on toast with green peas, a Friday night special my mom would occasionally make I have never ever liked. Good old SOS, barf!

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  3. A Jellyfish Sushi Roll
    Was not disqusting per se
    The texture left much to be desired
    But the Body Rush after about 60 seconds was unique
    In essence, you can see the fragrance

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  5. Sorry, Mum, but haggis is simply disgusting. After that fiasco I developed a spine and simply refused to eat certain food (including some a Russian student tried to get me to eat, and we were friends so I didn’t care how offended she pretended to be). Although my grandfather tricked me into eating chocolate covered ants when I was little, and tbh it wasn’t that bad, though I’m not sure I would try it again. I actually liked Turkish Delight as a child (couldn’t stomach it now), though not sure if that’s actually “disgusting.” And that awful Scottish habit of deep frying everything, including chocolate, though more embarrassing than repulsive, still makes me shudder.

    I did have luck, though, because in India I really would not have wanted to offend anyone, especially the ones who don’t have much but choose the best portions of food for guests – I really cared about the people I knew and those I met through them, and I love India. Fortunately for me, I never came upon anything that grossed me out enough to dread trying it. What most Westerners don’t like about Indian food is the spice (and it’s the strength they dislike, not that it’s repulsive), but fortunately I like a bit of spice.

    Addition: I guess they really are right about simply different things are appealing, because broccoli is mentioned above, and I love it! I never ever even had it until I was 20 (neither parent, for whatever reason, ever purchased or prepared it), and never even knew until a fellow sailor asked me to try it, having already given away that it’s one of those “gross” foods. I loved it, oh it was so delicious. I eat it raw and cooked, and am in love with broccoli soup.

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  10. I lived in Japan 6 years and my boss every time we went somewhere would order the nastiest shit just to see if I would freak . It never happened but I will tell you fermented foods are the hardest to get down the gullet.

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  12. This is not an easy question for me to answer. Very few foods have disgusted me, and they tend to be mundane. Because of the odor, I can’t get very close to steamed spinach. But spinach as an ingredient in a more complex dish, or raw spinach in a salad is just fine to my nose.

    But I have eaten many things that would disgust most of YOU. At the top of my guess list would be xuě dòufǔ, or pig blood curd, especially as an ingredient in Maoxuewang. That’s a nice tasty spicy soup made with pig blood curd, cow stomach, any luncheon (“mystery”) meat, eel, intestine, and bean sprouts. *sluuuurp*

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  13. Tie between jellyfish and octopus. Probably the way it was prepared, but the texture was that of – what I would imagine – cold, runny … I can’t say it. Yuk. Never mind.

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  15. @Jethro:

    Do you know what is in scrapple?
    .
    .
    .
    What’s left…

    Heh! The way I heard it years ago from my father, who taught me to love Reading Terminal Market scrapple, was:

    Do you know what is in scrapple?
    No? That’s OK. Nobody else knows, either.

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  16. Octopus and dried Squid…Both in South Korea.

    Rocky Mountain Oysters as a Child

    Still cannot eat Sushi…Gag reflex too strong.

    Beef Heart and Brain….Heart was awesome…

    Couple of Guys I knew got a Free Shirt for eating Balut in

    the P.I….

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  17. During summer of 1970 a friend and I traveled around the country in a VW van after graduating high school. We were in Chinatown, San Francisco, and ordered a variety of foods from a market. We wondered what the spongy stuff was we were eating. It was CALF BRAINS!!

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  20. Uncle Al –

    Agreed on the spinach thingie. Cooked = No way, Raw = okay.

    Broccoli….not a problem. Prefer raw with Ranch dip.

    Rocky mountain oysters are weak. High Plains Oysters are best (bison nuts)

    Raw oysters?? I can just suck the snot in my sinus, instead. Same thing.

    Sushi? Never….i don’t eat fish bait.

    Absolutely nothing that has clotted blood. I’d die first.

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  22. Will never forget a coagulated bloody nose booger worm melded to the tissue paper I pulled out one time. At least a foot long. Pulled it out slowly for maximum effect. Then I ate it over my vanquished opponent at my feet. Could have used a raw Egg.

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  23. Scrambled Eggs & Brains; calf, since we don’t eat pork because of Miss Diana’s family background. There’s really nothing like sitting down to a hardy breakfast of crispy fried oysters, scrambled eggs and brains, and freshly buttered biscuits. Yummmmm! A completely decadent, rich and creamy plate of deliciousness. Brains are a terrible thing to waste.

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  24. Whilst I have become physically intolerant of many dishes, I have (over the years) tried many things that U would not eat again. Broccoli is great steamed or raw. My children were brought up on scrapple (thanks to my late bride) and eat it still. I on the other hand will eat it if there is nothing else, but I am not crazy about the consistency (or lack thereof). Most disgusting thing I have ever eaten, HANDS DOWN, was at the “Nuts and Guts” dinner at some mountain lodge toward Harrisonburg……. Grave’s or some such…. I can at the very least say that I tried them…..

    “Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell

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  25. In Israel, without looking closely enough at it I ate a pressed sesame seed and honey bar. Halfway through I noticed it was covered in tiny live maggots. Funny thing, it tasted okay.

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  31. I have 4 rules:
    1. No bugs, no crabs, lobster, shrimp, or crawdads. No kind of creepy-crawly insect.
    2. No slugs, no snails, squid, octopus, no kind of slimy cephalopod or gastropod.
    3. No guts, no brains, liver, kidneys, sweet breads, no internal organs
    4. No chicken, no chicken stock, no chicken broth, nothing that tastes or smells of the filthy disgusting bird.

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  38. I ate an oyster once. By mistake. It was deep-fried and I thought it was a fish filet. I had to spit it into my napkin. Verry discreetly since I was at a big celebration dinner party. Ugh. My Son-in-Law has eaten just about everything they serve in Japan, including Flying Tuna!

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  42. I eat most anything that won’t eat me first, they better be fast too.
    Durian, the most disgusting fruit ever grown.
    Big as a football, smell of rotting onions, texture of vanilla custard.
    Lutefisk, dried cod soaked in lye, the consistency is of salty fish jello.
    I had a balut, it wasn’t as bad as you would think, the little feet and beak are weird.

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  43. Having lived in France for about 18 years I ate snails in garlic sauce a couple of times. I found them a little rubbery. I also had broiled calf brains with onion and parsley in a Moroccan restaurant. That was like eating broiled bone marrow: it melts in your mouth. I guess I was lucky I didn’t contract Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.

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  45. Duck Soup (Czarnina) even with Grandma’s homemade egg noodles.

    I can still taste it even though I was forced to taste it when I was about 5. That’s a lot of decades ago.

    I1 (4 pound) wild duck, whole
    4 cups duck blood
    8 cups water
    1 teaspoon salt
    1 stalk celery, cut into 2 inch pieces
    1 sprig chopped fresh parsley
    1 cup heavy cream
    5 whole allspice berries

    2 whole cloves
    16 ounces pitted prunes
    1/2 cup raisins
    1 tart apple – peeled, cored and chopped
    2 tablespoons flour
    Lemon juice
    https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/13250/duck-soup-czarnina/print/?recipeType=Recipe&servings=12&isMetric=false

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  46. Duck Soup (Czarnina) even with Grandma’s homemade egg noodles.

    I can still taste it even though I was to taste it when I was about 5. That’s a lot of decades ago.

    I1 (4 pound) wild duck, whole
    4 cups duck blood
    8 cups water
    1 teaspoon salt
    1 stalk celery, cut into 2 inch pieces
    1 sprig chopped fresh parsley
    1 cup heavy cream
    5 whole allspice berries

    2 whole cloves
    16 ounces pitted prunes
    1/2 cup raisins
    1 tart apple – peeled, cored and chopped
    2 tablespoons flour
    Lemon juice
    https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/13250/duck-soup-czarnina/print/?recipeType=Recipe&servings=12&isMetric=false

    As I watched my step-grandfather eat it with gusto, I felt what I would come to know as disgust.
    I much loved the Italian foods of his home country that he often cooked.

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  50. Yet, we all love our pets, rescue them , I’m all for it! Got 2 of them btw. One is named TC (turd chewier) and the other named after Susan Eloise Hinton, writer of The Outsiders. SE stands for sh*t eater, aptly named. Yea, really love those kisses! And people are worried about food, unlike the other stuff they welcome in their lips?

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  52. Snorky1 October 20, 2018 at 8:42 pm

    @Yet, we all love our pets, rescue them…

    God arranged for poop to smell bad in order to repulse us enough not to eat it…it has zero food value….some doggies, bless their hearts, didn’t get the message.

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  53. Tim Buktu – nods, I know, it’s nasty. After the 2016 election they both voted Democrat, and than they ran off. The RF tags last located them in Portland. Some facial recognition has been determined as non-conclusive due to them covering their faces with bandanna’s . I still pay my ASPCA commitment. Only hope I’m left with,,, Bless you TC and SE.

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  54. Lutefisk!!

    It’s cod soaked in lye until all the bones and flesh gel into an uncomestable mass.

    Heard this recipe as the only way to eat it:

    1 box ritz crackers
    1 bottle of ketchup
    I tin of caviar
    1 bottle of aquavit.

    Alternate eating ketchup on a cracker, a shot of aquavit, caviar on a cracker, a shot of aquavit, etc, etc. when you have had enough aquavit that you can no longer tell the difference between caviar or ketchup on a cracker it is safe to eat the lutefisk.

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  56. I still shudder when I recall eating a plate of jellyfish tentacles, an appetizer at a wedding dinner. It would have been impolite to refuse. And what a delicacy it was – tasteless, gray strands of chewy rubber. At least we weren’t served those live baby eels cooked in boiling oil.

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  65. Hambone October 21, 2018 at 2:16 am

    I’ve had it once where the liver was cut into thin strips, breaded, then deep fried, and served with ranch dressing. Anything breaded and deep fried tastes better. I’ve had cow intestines in Colombia that were cut cross-wise, breaded and deep fried. Not bad, not bad at all.

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