I'm not going to read this - sounds gross."
"Barf."
"Yuck."
These comments came back to me from across the globe when I posted a link to a news article on Facebook. The offending story: Shop Sells Breast Milk Ice Cream.
Marketed as "pure, organic and totally natural", a restaurant in London's Covent Garden is,
as the headline suggests, serving a new range of ice cream made with breast milk.
And the price-tag, at $30 a serving, for a "Baby Gaga" is just as distasteful.
Even the Madagascan vanilla pods and lemon zest failed to draw me in.
Logically speaking, it shouldn't be an issue.
We consume milk from cows, sheep and goats without batting an eyelid. Human breast milk is from humans - the same species.
But I'm with Ross from Friends when he said: "I just don't think breast milk is for adults."
I can't help but wonder, though, who will be lining up to try this mammary delicacy. Men with mother issues? Breastfeeding activists? Babies of the rich and famous? Or those who are just plain "gaga"?
Lactating mother Victoria Hiley, who sells her wares for $32 an ounce, says it's a great recession beater.
But by the time she has forked out for a boob job and nipple lift to undo the negative effects of hours attached to a breast pump she will barely break even.
She also says if more adults realised how tasty breast milk was, more new mothers would be encouraged to breastfeed.
The reasons why women choose to breastfeed or not are varied and, at times, complex. And none of them have to do with taste.
It goes without saying that Mother Nature wouldn't have created something that was repulsive to babies.
Even if it is repulsive to adults.
Or at least the thought of it.
Give me Tip Top over Tit Top any day.
