First Breast Milk Cheese, Now Breast Milk Ice Cream

via Daily Mail

Last year, there was a whole hullabaloo after news spread that Chef Daniel Angerer had crafted a cheese out of breast milk; but after the controversy blew over, others started getting in on the breast milk market this year. And now, a restaurant in London has started selling breast milk ice cream, which is being served to customers in a cocktail glass. Does this mean Andrea Peyser is blessed with precognition?

According to the Daily Mail, Covent Garden-based Icecreamists have named the £14 dish Baby Gaga, the name of which translates to "spawn of Lady Gaga." The drink, which is a combination of breast milk and Madagascan vanilla with lemon zest, is served with liquid nitrogen by specially costumed Baby Gaga waitresses. Icecreamists calls it a "a storm in a D cup."

The first 50 servings of the delicacy were provided by 35-year-old Victoria Hiley, who gave 30 ounces of milk; but since the first servings have already sold out, the restaurant desperately needs more women to provide milk (13 others have since volunteered). They are offering £15 for every ten ounces of breast milk—will this inevitably result in farms where women are kept in pens and attached to machines? Will it go from "meat is murder" to "breasts are murder"? We also wonder if this is the first step toward a whole industry of breast milk dairy products—breast milk butter, breast milk heavy cream, breast milk whipped cream, the possibilities are endless!

If it does come to America, maybe the IRS will agree to give tax breaks to women who donate breast milk. But an amused Chef Angerer told us he doesn't think it will get to America, because "people have issues with human fluids." He added that his breast milk frommage only started as an experiment for his blog, and said he wasn't tempted to get back into the breast milk business: "Am I gonna serve it in my restaurant? Absolutely not."

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By Ben Yakas in Food on February 25, 2011 3:34 PM

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JesseCal

I don't think I could indulge in this 'culinary' delight. . . I think it's Yuckie!

kerkes

"what's the harm in using my assets for an extra bit of cash?" says a breast milk donor. and your health background is...? no one knows, not even the ice cream place making the stuff since the breast milk donations were found through an online ad. everyone wants to eat a product made from the bodily fluids of 15 people with an unknown medical background, right? http://www.wacktrap.com/events...

jacqueline66

I'm guessing that people that have a problem with human breast milk do not drink milk from a strange farm animal standing ankle deep in it's own shit. Either that or they don't think these things through.

Spirit of 76

Let me know when they get to breast milk yogurt.

It's just strange that people have more of a problem with breast milk than beast milk.

usernameeeee

hold the hot fudge.

Anne Cathrine Dalgaard

All milk comes from breasts. Why do people think it's more gross to drink milk that comes from the breasts of a human than that from a cow's breasts?

onetonnoodle

Breast milk tastes like sugar water and would make lousy ice cream. It doesn't have enough fat content to it.

smorrebrod

Free count–world. Why the fuck not? It's not like these ladies are in a farm– Actually I shouldn't give any ideas.

angry_pickle

Why stop with breast milk? There are a lot of bored people in Europe and America whose tongues are numb from ordinary foods. Offer up scramble semen with organic green onions or poached aborted fetus with locally sourced heirloom tomatos.

MermaidFornicator

i love breasts, i love ice cream, i love ice cream on breasts so how can i not love ice cream from breasts? mmmmm

nicemarmot

At least breast milk ice cream makes more sense than breast milk cheese. It always makes me laugh how grossed out some people get about breast milk, though. I assume none of them have ever drunk cow's milk or eaten any dairy product.