Posted on 03/22/2011 9:37:40 PM PDT by smokingfrog
It doesn't get more locavore than this. Ice cream made from human breast milk. Or what about mom's milk cheese?
It's the most natural of foods and yet, human breast milk is lumped in with bizarre and controversial foods, unless, of course, it's a suckling baby drinking it.
The latest human breast milk product is Baby Gaga ice cream, sold in London, England, in a shop called The Icecreamists. The restaurant buys milk from mamas to make into ice cream flavoured with vanilla and lemon zest that it serves in a martini glass for about $22.50.
"The Baby Gaga tastes creamy and rich. No one's done anything interesting with ice cream in the last 100 years," owner Matt O'Connor has said.
Is it the thin edge of a trend? It isn't the first human milk product to be sold to the public. Klee Brasserie, a fine dining restaurant in New York City, made limited amounts of breast milk cheese dishes while the owner's wife was lactating last year. The chef/owner served the cheese dredged in porcini powder; with figs and Hungarian pepper; and with maple caramelized pumpkin seeds and grapes.
The New York City health department didn't have specific rules on human breast milk products but they did ask the owner to stop selling or giving away the dishes. Co-owner Daniel Angerer said he got extreme reactions, both positive and negative.
Another New Yorker, Miriam Simun, made and served up breast milk cheeses as a university project. And here in Canada, a Toronto performance artist staged a piece called Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar with samples. The idea has backing from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). They've even urged Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream company to start replacing cow's milk with human breast milk.
(Excerpt) Read more at edmontonjournal.com ...
Yikes!
They actually let people smoke in UK restaurants?
Yeah, I don’t think I’m gonna risk eating the cheese or drinking the milk of some Medea Benjamin or some Cindy Sheehan.
CodePuke.
Ben n Jerry’s will have a Rosie O’Donnel flavor soon.
Harvesting and eating something from the human body? It feels like a couple steps away from cannibalism.
I wonder if the Morlocks drank the Elois’ milk.
LOL!
That does conjure up a pretty bad image.
(shudder)
>> It’s the most natural of foods and yet, human breast milk is lumped in with bizarre and controversial foods, unless, of course, it’s a suckling baby drinking it. <<
Babies also wear diapers and sh!+ themselves. Doesn’t mean it’s not creepy as hell when a grownup does it.
>> It’s the most natural of foods and yet, human breast milk is lumped in with bizarre and controversial foods, unless, of course, it’s a suckling baby drinking it. <<
Babies also wear diapers and sh!+ themselves. Doesn’t mean it’s not creepy as hell when a grownup does it.
>> Don’t be critical of things you have never tried and are perfectly aligned with nature. <<
It’s the Liberal-Chiche-o-matic!
Seriously, exactly how do expect “trying it” is necessary to forming one’s opinion here? Do you expect someone to change their values based on the way ice cream tastes? And how exactly is it aligned with nature for grown men to
You weren’t breast feed were you?
Wow, you found a live one there dangus.
“How do you know it’s bad unless you try it?”
Vote for it to find out what’s in it!
23 seems to be stuck on that bit of mind sominex, one can form a perfectly good opinion on something without trying it.
The San Francisco poofters for example, one can form a valid opinion on them and their behavior of choice without trying it.
This had idiot caucus written all over it.
Those boobys are uneven.
Most real boobies are.
But ... well ... uh ... never mind.
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