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Human Cheese

dogjones

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So, do you reckon you could make cheese out of human breast milk? How much milk would you need to make a wheel of it? Would it taste Gouda? Or feta-id? Would there be a market for it online? In Japan perhaps?

Would you eat some?

These are the questions I have been pondering this very fine Monday. And I camembert it any longer.
 
So, do you reckon you could make cheese out of human breast milk? How much milk would you need to make a wheel of it? Would it taste Gouda? Or feta-id? Would there be a market for it online? In Japan perhaps?

Would you eat some?

These are the questions I have been pondering this very fine Monday. And I camembert it any longer.


On the grounds that it seems to be possible to make cheese out of the milk of most (mammalian of course, as the only ones to produce milk) species, I presume that you could.

On your supplementary question of whether there would be a market for it, the answer is probably "yes" - if only on the grounds that people eat the most bizarre things. Spiny anteater anyone? Actually, after a couple of strong rums, anteater doesn't taste bad!
 
It has been done.

It's a blog entry. The blogger has a restaurant in New York. He used his wife's milk as she had more than needed for their daughter. Some news reports suggested he added it to the restaurant's menu (he did not), but as I understand it, it was offered to patrons wanting to try it.
 
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Cheesus! The bstard stole my idea! I am very, very angry now.
 
I think there's scope for a whole birth-themed menu:

Fried Placenta with onions and bacon and served with colostrum coulis
..~..
Creme caramel made with mother's milk
..~..
Human cheese board
..~..

Chef_emoticon.gif
 
It has been done.

It's a blog entry. The blogger has a restaurant in New York. He used his wife's milk as she had more than needed for their daughter. Some news reports suggested he added it to the restaurant's menu (he did not), but as I understand it, it was offered to patrons wanting to try it.

And they received a warning from the NY City Health Department:

But the New York City Health Department seems less amused: It has told Angerer he would be well-advised to stop offering his wife’s milk to the general public, even though there is no specific law on the books prohibiting it.
“The restaurant knows that cheese made from breast milk is not for public consumption, whether it is sold or given away,” a Health Department spokeswoman told the New York Post.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/35778477/ns/today-foodwine/
 
It's kind of weird that we think human milk is disgusting, but animal milk is fine to drink. While eating human meat is cannibalism, milk is produced specifically to be ingested my humans, but we do tend to disdain the consumption of other bodily fluids I guess. Eh, it's just weird.

I wonder why the gunk that can build up behind my ears smells like cheese.
 
We don't neccessarily like the idea of drinking animal milk either, if we think too much about where it comes from ;) .
 
I think there's scope for a whole birth-themed menu:

Fried Placenta with onions and bacon and served with colostrum coulis
..~..
Creme caramel made with mother's milk
..~..
Human cheese board
..~..

[qimg]http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p133/debs711/Chef_emoticon.gif[/qimg]​

Ther's a terrible joke here that I am just going to leave alone. If someone else makes it, I will suffer though!!!:(
 
I don't know exactly why, but the idea is distasteful to me. As is human excrement as fertilizer.

My wife breast fed all our kids for well over 12 months, so it's not breast milk per se.
 
That's almost as good as Venezuelan beaver cheese!
I wouldn't want to milk the 'bizarre animal cheese' jokes to death, but I think you'll find that Venezuelan beaver cheese goes well with badger cheese:

Badgercheese1.jpg


We don't neccessarily like the idea of drinking animal milk either, if we think too much about where it comes from ;) .
^this.

Drinking milk beyond infant stage is just plain weird and unheard of in the animal kingdom with the exception of us humans. And we don't even drink our own. There was an advertising campaign by a vegan organisation here a while back. One of the posters featured a man lying underneath a cow drinking milk straight from the udder.

But milk and cheese... sooo nice. Mmmmm!
 
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Naah! Casu marzu by a length or two!!



The other serves (or appears to) a health function for some - CM has no redeeming value except, maybe, for the fun of watching it move on it's own..........
 
The sound of the maggots jumping out of your sandwich and pinging off the paper sack you're carrying it around in...
 
We don't neccessarily like the idea of drinking animal milk either, if we think too much about where it comes from ;) .
Speak for yourself. I find it a tragedy that you can't refridgerate a cow and get cold milk straight from the udder at any time.
 
So, do you reckon you could make cheese out of human breast milk? How much milk would you need to make a wheel of it? Would it taste Gouda? Or feta-id? Would there be a market for it online? In Japan perhaps?

Would you eat some?

These are the questions I have been pondering this very fine Monday. And I camembert it any longer.

Some viruses are transmitted via breast milk, so breast milk and products made from it might be classified as a biohazard.

Now fumunda cheese, that's a different story.
 
Why do we not try drinking rats’ milk, cats’ milk or dogs’ milk?

Nothing wrong with dogs' milk. Full of vitamins, full of minerals, full of marrowbone jelly...
 

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