“At the Museum of Disgusting Food in Malmö, in Sweden, all the world’s great cuisines are represented. Each exhibit is considered a delicacy somewhere, but strikes many unaccustomed palates as revolting. Visitors are invited to handle a raw bull’s penis and sip liquor with dead mice in it.
“...The meat of the Greenland shark has toxically high levels of urea...Icelanders eat small cubes of hakarl, as they call it, from toothpicks. The late Anthony Bourdain...called it ‘the single worst, most disgusting and terrible-tasting thing’ he had ever eaten. Others have likened it to ‘chewing on a urine-soaked mattress’.
“At the entrance, everyone is issued with a sick bag in lieu of a ticket. ‘5 days since the last vomit’ reads a blackboard nearby. At the bottom is a running total of how many chundering incidents have occurred since the museum opened in 2018. The most sensitive visitor was a Belgian journalist who threw up ten times.”