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Su Callu Sardu or Goat kid's rennet cheese also features in the museum. It's also called Sardinian Viagra and the taste is described as gasoline and ammonia mixed with wax. All photographs: https://disgustingfoodmuseum.com/
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Spicy Rabbit Heads are associated with the Chinese province of Sichuan. Howver, West, the curator of the museum, wants to introduce such dishes to a wider audience. CNN has quoted West as saying, "What we find disgusting has to be learned - it's purely cultural."
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Natto is a traditional Japanese food made from soybeans fermented. Some eat it as a breakfast food. West said he has managed only to sample about half of the more exotic collected consumables. Asked did he ever vomit while prepping the exhibition? "Every day."
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Among the exhibits is food that is made by drowning animals: Chinese mouse wine, which involves brewing baby mice in wine. There are only two exhibits that involve live animals: locusts, which are eaten in Israel, and maggots, which are in casu marzu, a Sardinian cheese.
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Food like Menudo -- Mexican soup made from tripe, which is the stomach lining of cattle and sheep -- is also on the menu. With food such as this, some visitors have had a hard time: Twice people have vomited, but West says that's fine as entry tickets into the museum are actually vomit bags with their logo.
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Indonesian kopi luwak is actually a rather trendy coffee product collected from the excrement of a wild cat-like animal called the Asian palm civet. Coffee cherries pass through the digestive system of the animals and are then collected by farmers who clean, wash, and sell them for roasting.
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A pan of Kale Pache on display at the Disgusting Food Museum, in Malmo, Sweden. This dish is made with the head, feet and stomach of sheep. It is popular in Iran, Afghanistan, Armenia and Iraq. The heads and hooves are kept in cold water for days and then boiled overnight to reduce the strong smell.
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Fruit bats smell strongly of urine while being cooked, but the meat is said to be sweet and is popular in Guam.
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Casu marzu, a Sardinian speciality, is cheese crawling with live maggots. The cheese is made from sheep's milk and is considered dangerous. It is also illegal in the European Union. However, it is highly sought after as Sardianians claim the cheese is an aphrodisiac, enjoying it at weddings and other celebrations.
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The strong-smelling Durian fruit also features at the exhibit. The Southeast Asian plant is regarded by many as the "world's smelliest fruit". In fact, the smell of the fruit is so strong that it's banned from many enclosed public spaces throughout Asia
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Bull's penis is a popular dish around the world, widely believed to boost virility.
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Entry at the museum costs 185kr and they also offer tastings of well-aged shark, fermented herring and Durian. If you can stomach that, there are also century eggs -- a Chinese preserved food product and delicacy made by preserving duck, chicken or quail eggs in a mixture of clay, ash, salt, quicklime, and rice hulls for several weeks to several months.
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Jell-O salad is made with gelatine, fruit and assorted vegetables, and graces tables across the US at Thanksgiving.
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The museum, also featuring Kumis -- a beverage traditionally consumed by farming communities in Russia and Central Asia. It is made of mare's milk that's been fermented, making it slightly alcoholic and sparkling -- is scheduled to run until January 27 at the Slagthuset MMX in Malmo.
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Swedish visitors are surprised to find salty licorice, popular in Sweden but perceived as disgusting to many others. West is adamant that the Disgusting Food Museum is there to help people learn and think critically, not just to pose for photos.