Yuck! Deliciously Disgusting Food Museum Is Opening In LA

LOS ANGELES, CA — Mmmm...that maggot cheese would pair nicely with drowned baby rice wine. Gird your stomachs and open your minds, Angelenos, The Disgusting Food Museum is coming.

The exhibit, which features some of the most stomach churning and provocative foods from across the globe, aims to awaken your senses and your appreciation for different cultures.

Exhibited at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District, The Disgusting Food Museum will be open to the public from Dec. 9 to Feb. 17, 2019. With 80 food exhibits, visitors will have a chance to gnosh on some samples, challenging their taste buds while changing their minds.

"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," curator Dr. Samuel West, the psychologist known as "Dr. Failure" after the runaway success of his Museum of Failure.

First displayed in Sweden, the exotic collection of foods was conceived 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.

So just what disgusting foods can visitors expect to see or taste?

There is sheep eyeball juice for the discerning juicer. Or there is bull penis and testicles, frog smoothies from Peru, Maggot cheese from Sardinia, the notoriously smelly fruit, the Durian, from Thailand, the infamous putrid sea herring dish from Sweden Mouse Wine, and drowned baby mice in rice wine from China.

Foodies, travelers, and the just plain curious can explore unfamiliar food creations, smell face-cringing aromas and try select samples at the grand finale tasting bar. Amazing and bizarre Instagramable moments are endless at the internationally known museum.

City News Service and Patch Staffer Paige Austin contributed to this report. Photos by Darren Gold (The Rose Group)