Keeping abreast of legal matters.
Last week I reported on the curious case of the breast milk ice-cream on sale in London’s Covent Garden.
Ice-cream confectioner Matt O’Connor was confident his take on the “miracle of motherhood” and priced at a hefty 14 pounds a serving would go down a treat with the paying public.
He had obtained the breast milk from a nursing Mum – proudly named as Victoria Hiley 35, who had seen his advert calling for human milking machines on ‘Mumsnet’ (where else?).
Naturally Nanny, in the form of Westminster Council’s Health and Safety department couldn’t leave this entrepreneurship alone, and bustled into the ice-cream parlour on Tuesday – removing all the frozen ‘Breast is best’ specimens from sale.
“Selling foodstuffs made from another person’s bodily fluids can lead to viruses being passed on and in this case, potentially hepatitis,” Brian Connell, Westminster Council’s cabinet member for business, said on Tuesday.
‘and in this case’? Since Victoria Hiley has been so prominently named in every major media mouthpiece as the origin of the breast milk, can I suggest that libel and defamation specialists form an orderly queue whilst plying their wares on Mumsnet?
She should be able to milk this for all it is worth…..
March 3, 2011 at 14:49The Nissan Pathfinder with “Front Independent Suspension”
Jesus H Christ, the Morris Minor had that in 1948….
March 2, 2011 at 14:13Yes, but who, in all honesty, would want a strawberry flavoured breast
milkshake????Ewwwwwww!
March 2, 2011 at 19:19Search “Nissan Independent Suspension” on YouTube to see how that’d be
made.
- March 2, 2011 at 13:56
It’s been pasteurised – if that isn’t good enough perhaps I should stop
drinking cows milk?
March 2, 2011 at 12:59It could pass on hepatitis? Good grief, they’d better not give this stuff
to babies. That would be very irresponsible….
March 2, 2011 at 12:20incidentally, plaudits to Le Chat de Caedmon – very good!
March 2, 2011 at 12:06I was on the breast until two and have remained an occasional taster until
this day. Am not sure how many readers can recall the taste, but assure you it
is delightful. Toodle pip.
March 2,
2011 at 11:57“She should be able to milk this for all it is worth…..”
*chortle*
March 2, 2011 at 14:57Go on Anna, admit it, you wrote the OP purely for the opportunity to use
that punchline.
- March 2, 2011 at 11:43
never mind milk, what about the Chateau Margaux ??
March 2, 2011 at 11:18Oh what a shame! Looks like the expensive breast milk ice cream is a thing
of the past, confiscated by the Health Nazis. Well, all I can say is: thanks
for the mammary…
March 2, 2011 at 11:28
March 2, 2011 at 10:56Allons, enfants de la poitrine…
March 2, 2011 at 13:00Bon stuff. Nous allons manger, les virus foie.
Gonna be brave and
point to the Thalidomide tragedy and why it didn’t happen in The States
(perverse official acting on instinct who struggled to justify the
decision).
Elf ‘n Safety are monkeys but sometimes a bit of King Lear
gets typed.
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