Lucy in the Sky
27-02-2011, 07:42
From http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/restaurants-and-bars/diners-gaga-about-breast-milk-icecream-20110226-1b97q.html
Diners gaga about breast milk ice-cream
LONDON: Ice-cream made with breast milk has proved a big hit in a London restaurant, with the first batch sold out within days, its makers say.
The ice-cream, called Baby Gaga, is made with milk expressed by 15 women who replied to an advertisement posted on an online mothers' forum.
Each serving of Baby Gaga at the Icecreamists cafe in trendy Covent Garden costs £14 ($22.50).
One of the milk donors, Victoria Hiley, 35, said if adults realised how tasty breast milk was then more new mothers would feel happier about breastfeeding.
She expresses the milk at the cafe and it is pasteurised before lemon zest and vanilla pods are added during the churning process.
Miss Hiley, who is paid £15 for every 284 grams of milk she donates to the company, told the BBC: ''What's the harm in using my assets for a bit of extra cash?''
The founder of Icecreamists, Matt O'Connor, said he could not understand people being squeamish about the product. ''If it's good enough for our children, it's good enough for the rest of us,'' he said.
''Some people will hear about it and go yuck - but actually it's pure organic, free-range and totally natural.''
A spokeswoman for Icecreamists said that despite the success of Baby Gaga there were no plans to market the breast milk ice-cream more widely. ''This was launched this week and already the ice-cream has sold out,'' she said.
Agence France-Presse
I have no problem with the concept of breast milk ice cream, but the logistics of selling it commercially raise a few questions... both in terms of health and hygiene, and turning women literally into cows :p (because its for commercial consumption, not because they pump it!)
And to be 'organic', would that mean the women would have to guarantee they weren't taking any drugs that could enter the breastmilk?
Also, "free-range" makes me picture these mummies running around on a farm eating worms :laughing:
Diners gaga about breast milk ice-cream
LONDON: Ice-cream made with breast milk has proved a big hit in a London restaurant, with the first batch sold out within days, its makers say.
The ice-cream, called Baby Gaga, is made with milk expressed by 15 women who replied to an advertisement posted on an online mothers' forum.
Each serving of Baby Gaga at the Icecreamists cafe in trendy Covent Garden costs £14 ($22.50).
One of the milk donors, Victoria Hiley, 35, said if adults realised how tasty breast milk was then more new mothers would feel happier about breastfeeding.
She expresses the milk at the cafe and it is pasteurised before lemon zest and vanilla pods are added during the churning process.
Miss Hiley, who is paid £15 for every 284 grams of milk she donates to the company, told the BBC: ''What's the harm in using my assets for a bit of extra cash?''
The founder of Icecreamists, Matt O'Connor, said he could not understand people being squeamish about the product. ''If it's good enough for our children, it's good enough for the rest of us,'' he said.
''Some people will hear about it and go yuck - but actually it's pure organic, free-range and totally natural.''
A spokeswoman for Icecreamists said that despite the success of Baby Gaga there were no plans to market the breast milk ice-cream more widely. ''This was launched this week and already the ice-cream has sold out,'' she said.
Agence France-Presse
I have no problem with the concept of breast milk ice cream, but the logistics of selling it commercially raise a few questions... both in terms of health and hygiene, and turning women literally into cows :p (because its for commercial consumption, not because they pump it!)
And to be 'organic', would that mean the women would have to guarantee they weren't taking any drugs that could enter the breastmilk?
Also, "free-range" makes me picture these mummies running around on a farm eating worms :laughing: