Once we get to Middleton, where our hotel is located, we head to the National Mustard Museum. Yes, there is one, and if you have any mustard related questions, this the place to go.
It’s basically a mustard store on the ground floor with a museum in the basement. The store sells more types of mustard than we knew existed. The museum contains over six thousand different bottles/tins of mustard from all over the world. They also have a number of displays telling more about mustard than most people would want to know. It’s all done in a lighthearted way. There are lots of jokes, games, and a theater called Mustard Piece Theater, where they show various mustard documentaries (again fairly lighthearted).
There is also the worlds first and only mustard vending machine. The world is a magical place!
Our head full of mustard knowledge, we head upstairs to do some tasting. They have 10-20 samples out that you can eat with pretzels, but they assured us we could taste any mustard they had for sale. We stuck with the ones they already had opened. They did have some really interesting mustards, but we left without purchasing.
It was definitely worth the free entry, and was pretty amusing. Certainly worth the hour we spent there.
Who knew that Canada was so big in the mustard world?
Next to a mustard based art piece by Barry Levenson
Just one wall of mustard in the museum
Mr. Mustard head?