A London ice cream parlor has stunned -- perhaps nauseated -- many by announcing "Baby Gaga," a twist on the traditional cold dairy treat. Instead of cow's milk, Baby Gaga is made with human breast milk.
The unusual ice cream flavor comes with a steep price tag, about $14.
While Baby Gaga is making headlines today, this isn't the first time someone has turned to mother's milk to whip up controversy. In fact, it seems to happen with some regularity.
Breast milk lamb curry
In 2008, Hans Lochen hoped that dishes like breast milk lamb curry would be a hit with diners at his restaurant in Iberg, Switzerland. "I served the meals to my friends without telling them about the new ingredient, and the feedback was excellent," he said. After his friends enjoyed the breast milk-spiked entrees, Lochen decided to put them on his menu and began trying to buy breast milk to stock up. But Swiss authorities shut him down before he could begin selling the meals made from mama's milk.
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Inspired by the Swiss chef, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals tried to convince the makers of Ben & Jerry ice cream to begin using human breast milk instead of cow's milk in its Chubby Hubby and other indulgent flavors. Ben & Jerry said no, to nobody's surprise.
Breast milk cheese
Last year, a New York chef named Daniel Angerer blogged about making cheese out of his wife's breast milk. After hearing from curious foodies, he began passing out some of the breast milk cheese at his restaurant, Klee Brasserie. "I prepared a little canape of breast-milk cheese with figs and Hungarian pepper," he told the New York Post. The local health department was none too pleased, but the free samples apparently ran out before they could do anything about it.
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More recently, a New York University grad student, Miriam Simun, created the "Human Cheese Project" to bring attention to sustainable food issues. "What would be the most natural, local, ethical cheese possible?" she says she asked herself while conceptualizing the project.Breast milk lasagna
Also in 2010, a 30-year-old mother from the U.K. told the Sun newspaper that she swears by breast milk when cooking for her family. "Breast milk is sweeter and slightly oily -- it actually tastes of goodness, whereas cow's milk just tastes of chemicals," she said. In addition to lasagna, Abi Blake also made cupcakes and cheesecake out of her extra breast milk.
We think we'll stick with our skim milk for now, though.
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