Rotten shark: A vomit bag for every guest at the Disgusting Food Museum

A visitor looks at the Chinese mouse wine, where babay mice are drowned and brewed in rice wine

The dead mouse in the Chinese wine sure looks nasty, and the maggots in the cheese tend to put people off. But nothing is more horrible to an unaccustomed palate than the Icelandic fermented shark. It’s the worst. Or so says the expert.

“It tastes like chewing on a urine-infested mattress,” said Samuel West, who, as curator of the Disgusting Food Museum, knows a thing or two about unpleasant victuals.