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February 25, 2011 by Brigitte Pellerin 6 Comments

This is so ridiculous:

Breast milk ice cream is London’s latest food double dare: the breast-milk-infused flavour “Baby Gaga,” is now available at the Icecreamists restaurant in London’s Covent Garden.

Icecreamists founder Matt O’Connor is confident that his take on the “miracle of motherhood” will catch on, even at at £14 pounds, or $22 a serving. “The Baby Gaga tastes creamy and rich,” he told the Daily Mail. “No-one’s done anything interesting with ice cream in the last hundred years. We’ve came up with a method of infusing ice-cream with breast milk. We wanted to completely reinvent it. And by using breast milk we’ve definitely given it a one hundred percent makeover. It’s just one of a dozen radical new flavours we’ve invented. We want to change the way people think about ice cream’.

“A costumed Baby Gaga waitress serves the ice cream in a martini glass filled with the breast milk ice cream mix. Liquid nitrogen is then poured into the glass through a syringe,” reports the Daily Mail. And the restaurant will serve the  the concoction with whisky and other cocktails as well, making it a bit more of an adult-oriented treat.

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The breast milk was provided by mothers who answered an advertisement on online mothers’ forum Mumsnet. Victoria Hiley, 35, was one of 15 women who sold milk to the restaurant.

“It wasn’t intrusive at all to donate – just a simple blood test. What could be more natural than fresh, free-range mothers milk in an ice cream?” she said.

When Ms. Hiley first saw the advertisement she thought it might be a joke, but when she found out it wasn’t, she provided the first 30 fluid ounces of milk, enough to make the first 50 servings. Women get paid £15 for every ten ounces of milk.

“Some people will hear about it and go, ‘yuck’ but actually it’s pure, organic, free-range and totally natural,” said Mr. O’Connor. “I had a Baby Gaga just this morning and I feel great.”

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  1. Mrs. Beazly says

    February 25, 2011 at 5:44 pm

    Drop the ‘Baby’ and the second ‘a’ in ‘Gaga’, and they have it about right.

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  2. Pat says

    February 26, 2011 at 8:31 am

    Gross. I think this article perfectly demonstrates the destruction of language that’s taken place in the last couple of generations. “it’s so wonderful and natural,” they all say. Yes, it is a natural product, but it’s not “natural” for adults to drink breast milk. Period. If it were there wouldn’t be so many people throwing up in their mouths while reading this story.

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  3. Lauri Friesen says

    February 26, 2011 at 9:15 am

    Breastfeeding, that is, nursing, a baby is a beautiful means for building the bond between mother and child. To turn it into just another commodity is creepy and those who would promote see human beings as just another profit opportunity.

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  4. Heather P. says

    February 27, 2011 at 3:19 pm

    As a currently nursing mother, I have to add my “OH YUCK!” It is wonderful to nurse my own baby, but even the idea of nursing my sister’s baby (who is exactly the same age as mine, born 1/2 hour apart) is kind of gross. We’d joked about it when our preschoolers were babies (they are 6 months apart in age).

    We thought we must be the strangest people in the world to even think of it. Apparently we were very, very wrong.

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  5. Mary Ann says

    February 28, 2011 at 10:37 am

    What is “natural” changes over time. Is it natural for adults to drink breast milk from cows or goats? Yet we do. And wet nurses were very common before formula and bottles or breast pumps – one woman nursing someone else’s baby because the mother couldn’t or didn’t want to.

    Which is not to say this isn’t silly. Not sure why it is considered so gross.

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  6. Jennifer Derwey says

    February 28, 2011 at 11:59 am

    I can wrap my mind around wet nurses. When considering adoption, I also have considered nursing an adopted infant since I had nursed my biological children. Nursing a child, any child, is not particularly strange to me. What IS “gross” is when something, like breast-milk, is not used what it is intended for. Ta-tas are for feeding babies, not making icecream.

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