London Goes Gaga for Breast-Milk Ice Cream

Published on Friday, February 25, 2011, by James Norton / Edit Post

Would you pay $22.50 to eat ice cream made from human breast milk? The question's no longer a hypothetical; the BBC reports that a London restaurant is selling a dessert called "Baby Gaga," "churned with donations from London mother Victoria Hiley, and served with a rusk and an optional shot of Calpol or Bonjela."

The stuff is "expressed on site and pasteurised before being churned with Madagascan vanilla pods and lemon zest" at the über-trendy Icecreamists.

This, of course, is not a totally new thing; a Swiss restaurant tried to use the stuff in sauces in 2008 (before getting shot down for health reasons), and a NYC restaurant offered cheese made from breast milk last year. Plus, a restaurant in China's Hunan Province was doing it back in 2003. And even before that, of course, breast milk was widely used as a sort of folksy homemade food for infants.

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  • I don't get it. We're squeamish as adults with ingesting a food product made from something natural as human breast milk (which we never complained of ingesting as babies and even heavily promote as the best food for babies), but we'll eat things like insects, rodents, animal by products, etc.

  • that is just messed up.

  • Bra-shaped popsicles -- yum

  • The big question is, is the milk certified organic. What goes in, comes out.

  • Have you ever heard someone say that being fed breast milk ruined their life?
    No one hates breasts so why would we hate this natural event in life?

    Marketed correctly this will create jobs. Women can be wet nurse's as long or as short as they want.
    This is freedom of choice and empowerment. Since most men can't do it there is little or no risk of being paid 20% less for the same work.

    It is...+READ

    Have you ever heard someone say that being fed breast milk ruined their life?
    No one hates breasts so why would we hate this natural event in life?

    Marketed correctly this will create jobs. Women can be wet nurse's as long or as short as they want.
    This is freedom of choice and empowerment. Since most men can't do it there is little or no risk of being paid 20% less for the same work.

    It is kinda like a sp**m bank only less discriminating.

    Can people really afford not to do this?-COLLAPSE

  • some people will try anything-aghhh I am sick

  • I didn't think breast milk had enough fat in it to make ice cream or enough protein in it to make cheese

  • this just made me nauseous!

  • This woman produces enough breast milk to make commercially available ice cream, presumably in some quantity? The Washington Post used to carry an ad for a local porn star called The Dairy Queen that announced her 72-inch bust. Has she found a new career?

  • Yuck! So many blood born diseases to pass around...

  • God, CHOW, please stop posting this kind of sensationalist crap.

  • Pretty funny story. It's making me titter.

  • Why are we competing with babies? What have we become, stealing foods from babies.

  • Reminds me of an incident where my parents used what they thought was organic cream in their coffee out of my nursing sister-in-laws fridge. Turned out it was stored breast milk...My dad later told me in private that he thought it made for an excellent cup of joe....

  • Every time I ask a nursing mother for a sip, I get glared at.

  • It's just odd people are so bored by cow/sheep/ other animal milk and so desperate for artisanal foods that they've turned to this. Only reason you would eat it is to say that you dud.

  • Women used to donate extra milk to milk banks to help with newborns that needed the milk to survive. I hope they are not swayed into making money out of some kind of fad and forget the
    humanitarian need.

  • Remember the nasty food riots that some blamed on the US producing ethanol from corn vs. selling it to these countries. Well, the babies are gonna riot next. They don't want to share their food. We've all had a bite at the tit, now its their turn and they don't want to lose out.

    I'll think I'll stick with the cow's milk version of ice cream for now. I don't want to incur the wrath of infants...+READ

    Remember the nasty food riots that some blamed on the US producing ethanol from corn vs. selling it to these countries. Well, the babies are gonna riot next. They don't want to share their food. We've all had a bite at the tit, now its their turn and they don't want to lose out.

    I'll think I'll stick with the cow's milk version of ice cream for now. I don't want to incur the wrath of infants everywhere by stealing their food supply. Plus, women already complain that men exploit their bodies. Using them as cows isn't going to help with that.-COLLAPSE

  • Hmmm mknunez, so if I eat chicken I should be OK with eating human flesh? After all, by your logic, eating outside one's species is disgusting.

  • :-| I'll pass...

  • Breast milk is so sweet, it would be awesome to try an ice cream made with it. Don't be grossed out people, it's more disgusting to drink another animal's milk. Just think about that next time you're eating sheep's cheese or drinking your whole milk latte. Yikes.

  • Judging by the photo accompanying this article, the baby doesn't look too happy :)

  • Would I? I don't know... Go, Supertaster! Tell us if it actually tastes better than cow's milk ice cream or if it's just a stunt (Guessing the latter).