Bulls Penis And Maggot Cheese On Offer At Berlins Disgusting Food Exhibition
A German museum is hosting a ‘disgusting food exhibition’ with a display of over 90 unusual recipes including bull’s penis and maggot cheese for visitors with strong stomachs.
The Disgusting Food Museum in Germany’s capital Berlin has set up an exhibition of over 90 strange delicacies from around the world which can be sampled at their tasting bar.
The disgusting foods, including frog smoothies from Peru, maggot cheese from Sardinia, foul-smelling fruit called durian from Thailand and the Swedish rotten herring surstromming, can be tasted Friday to Tuesday from 11am until 7pm.
Museum director Martin Volker, who recommended starting with schnapps enriched with a beaver anal gland aroma called Biebergeil, said: “You can experience it like a menu consisting of several courses.”
The director explained that people are usually triggered by the word “disgust”, which is why the exhibition aims to educate visitors by covering important topics such as sustainability and animal welfare.
Volker added: “The longer we expose ourselves to things that frighten us or even arouse disgust, the more we begin to understand why they have to be the way they are, and how we can relate positively to them and what advantage they give us.”
Regarding menu ideas at the Disgusting Food Museum, which was opened as a double to an already existing one in the city of Malmo in Sweden in May 2021, he said: “We didn’t want to look at other countries from a colonial perspective. That’s why we tried to find a similar German dish for every dish.”
Director and co-founder of the Disgusting Food Museum in the city of Malmo, Andreas Ahrens, said: “Each food in the exhibition is usually eaten in its culture of origin, it is disgusting in terms of the taste, smell, texture or background of its production. We are very excited about the opening of a permanent Disgusting Food Museum in Berlin.”
Nutritionist Bastienne Neumann explained that having an open mind is essential to fully understand cultural differences which is what the exhibition aims to do.
She said: “We are disgusted with things that are strange or too close to us. We wouldn’t eat a dog here because it’s too close to us. In India, on the other hand, it is inconceivable to eat the sacred cow.”