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Woman sells breast milk for ice cream

Thursday, February 24 2011, 10:23 GMT
By Mayer Nissim, Senior Entertainment Reporter

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A woman has sold 850ml of her breast milk to be made into a new ice cream product.

Called the Baby Gaga, the dessert will be available from the Icecreamists restaurant in Covent Garden, London, from tomorrow.

The Baby Gaga mixes breast milk - from women who have been properly screened - with Madagascan vanilla pods and lemon zest before churning it into ice cream. It is priced at £14 per portion.

Victoria Hiley, 35, said: "What could be more natural than fresh, free-range mother's milk in an ice cream? And for me it's a recession-beater too - what's the harm in using my assets for a bit of extra cash?

"I tried the product for the first time today - it's very nice it really melts in the mouth. I teach women how to get started on breast feeding their babies. There's very little support for women and every little helps. I'm passionate about the good that breastfeeding does for babies."

Hiley was one of 15 women who responded to an advert on Mumsnet offering £15 for every 10oz (285ml) of milk.

Icecreamists founder Matt O'Connor, 44, from Hampshire said: "The Baby Gaga tastes creamy and rich. 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 100% makeover.

"Some people will hear about it and go 'yuck' - but actually it's pure, organic, free-range and totally natural. I had a Baby Gaga just this morning and I feel great."

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It's a bit of a publicity stunt but...having said that, drinking cows milk is very very weird, if you think about it.

Nature produces breast milk for humans (albeit babies, not adults) cows milk for calves.

It's just societal conditioning.  We freak out at it coz we are conditioned to, not because it's logical.
Leccy
Originally Posted by Spartacus:
It's a bit of a publicity stunt but...having said that, drinking cows milk is very very weird, if you think about it.

Nature produces breast milk for humans (albeit babies, not adults) cows milk for calves.

It's just societal conditioning.  We freak out at it coz we are conditioned to, not because it's logical.
Very true
Soozy Woo
Lady GaGa has threatened to sue a London ice cream parlour that was selling a flavour named Baby GaGa.

The singer said that the ice cream - made from human breast milk - was 'nausea-inducing' and attempting to capitalise on her name. However, the product has already been removed from sale while the food standards department check whether it meets hygiene requirements.

Matt O'Connor, owner of the Covent Garden-based Icecreamists parlour, told The Guardian: "A global superstar has taken umbrage at what she describes as a 'nausea-inducing' product. This from a woman with a penchant for wearing rotting cows' flesh. At least our customers are still alive when they contribute to our 'art'.

"She claims we have 'ridden the coattails' of her reputation. As someone who has... recycled on an industrial scale the entire back catalogue of pop culture to create her look, music and videos, she might want to reconsider this allegation.

"How can she possibly claim ownership of the word 'gaga' which since the dawn of time has been one of the first discernible phrases to come from a baby's mouth?"
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Originally Posted by Croctacus:
What a stupid tart she is.....she'll be attmpting to get this place shut down next....and making babies and their parents pay her a copyright fee!
I agree,what an idiot to think she could sue
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Originally Posted by erinp:
Lady GaGa has threatened to sue a London ice cream parlour that was selling a flavour named Baby GaGa.

The singer said that the ice cream - made from human breast milk - was 'nausea-inducing' and attempting to capitalise on her name. However, the product has already been removed from sale while the food standards department check whether it meets hygiene requirements.

Matt O'Connor, owner of the Covent Garden-based Icecreamists parlour, told The Guardian: "A global superstar has taken umbrage at what she describes as a 'nausea-inducing' product. This from a woman with a penchant for wearing rotting cows' flesh. At least our customers are still alive when they contribute to our 'art'.

"She claims we have 'ridden the coattails' of her reputation. As someone who has... recycled on an industrial scale the entire back catalogue of pop culture to create her look, music and videos, she might want to reconsider this allegation.

"How can she possibly claim ownership of the word 'gaga' which since the dawn of time has been one of the first discernible phrases to come from a baby's mouth?"
Hahaha! I was just waiting for Lady Gaga to get her norks in a twist over this

And I agree with whoever said this; "As someone who has recycled on an industrial scale the entire back catalogue of pop culture to create her look, music and videos, she might want to reconsider this allegation."

Just who does Lady Gaga think she is? She's been around 5 minutes and is under the impression she's the first-born spawn of Beethoven. I think she's mega talented but all the dramas and theatrics do my swede in.
Karma_
A London restaurant will be able to begin selling its Baby GaGa ice cream again after it received the all-clear from Westminster Council.

The ice cream - containing human breast milk - was seized by the council last week from the Icecreamists parlour in Covent Garden over fears that it could "lead to viruses being passed on".

"We have now received confirmation from the lab that the product did not contain any harmful bacteria or viruses," This Is London quotes Westminster's food safety manager Richard Block as saying. "Our investigation into the safety of the product is now over."

Icecreamists founder Matt O'Connor hit back: "Breast milk is not dangerous and Westminster council confiscated our product in the full knowledge that we had done all the proper tests.

"We are considering taking legal action because this has damaged our reputation. They should have waited until they got the tests back before saying our product could have been a risk to the public."
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