BREAST MILK AND COOKIES

Posted by: Maureen Holloway | Mar 10 2010 1:00AM

I’m not sure why this disgusts me, but it does. I suppose, when you stop to think about it, there’s nothing elementally wrong with making cheese out of human breast milk, but I’m pretty sure it’s against health regulations to serve it in a restaurant. I mean, it’s not pasteurized, for starters. Who knows what the chef’s wife has been ingesting or harbouring? I mean, it’s a body fluid, for crying out loud. Why not blood sausage made from the chef’s own blood? How about vinegar made from his tears?
 
Now that I’ve completely put you off your feed, here is a list of seemingly gross things I actually find delicious:
 
Oysters
Escargots
Sweetbreads
Lobster
Calamari
Cretons
Steak Tartare (raw beef)
Blue cheese
 
And here is a list of things I will never eat:
 
Anything bigger than my head
Road kill
Anything moving
Entrails
Anything turquoise
Tripe
Anything with fingers
Papaya
Anything with a name
 
Which is why, if you have a pet cow, you shouldn’t name it Burger.
 
Here’s one of my favourite personalities – Anthony Bourdain – dining out on a specialty in Ecuador:
 



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COMMENTS (25)

Jacq
RE:BREAST MILK AND COOKIES
Mar 24 2010 4:57PM
For Brent (and Mo): There's a breakfast restaurant in Ajax called Eggscrepes which has Cretons on its menu. It's not as good as homemade, but still yummy...

Kathy
RE:BREAST MILK AND COOKIES
Mar 23 2010 5:49PM
This is disgusting. Breast milk is for babies and only babies. We don't eat our dead, do we?

Roxanne
RE:BREAST MILK AND COOKIES
Mar 19 2010 12:49PM
What about Prairie Oysters?

zydeco fish
RE:BREAST MILK AND COOKIES
Mar 17 2010 9:43PM
If you think human breast milk is gross, then you should really feel the same way about cow's milk. It's the breast milk of a hairy 2000 lbs animal, and we don't know what it's been eating either. Both are equally gross, if you ask me.

Helen
RE:BREAST MILK AND COOKIES
Mar 12 2010 12:23PM
Mo, love your list, but check out Turkey testicles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNf9t8R-ZWo Isn't sweetbreads, pancreas? Too close to entrails, yuk!

elaine
RE:BREAST MILK AND COOKIES
Mar 12 2010 7:49AM
I'm with you, if I'm eating meat, it is the traditional cuts we are used to in north america.

Kim
RE:BREAST MILK AND COOKIES
Mar 12 2010 6:06AM
Are'nt sweetbreads made from the thalamus gland wich is essentially an entrail and isnt Mr. Derringer a a creton did not know that was a food group and lastly I do not know how anyone could eat blood sausage or shudder head cheese

Lynn
RE:BREAST MILK AND COOKIES
Mar 11 2010 12:42PM
I refuse to eat anything I have to meet before I eat it. Case in point, I was at Captain John's MANY years ago and ordered lobster but indicated to the waiter that I DID NOT WANT HIM TO BRING IT TO THE TABLE SO I COULD SEE IT - ANY ONE WAS FINE WITH ME. Yup, you guessed it over he came with my dinner alive on the tray. I changed my order to steak figuring he could not possibly bring a COW to the table!!!! I have never eaten lobster since!

carol
RE:BREAST MILK AND COOKIES
Mar 11 2010 9:23AM
gross

Diane
RE:BREAST MILK AND COOKIES
Mar 11 2010 8:34AM
Oh lobster is delicious and NO they do not scream when you boil them. My won't eat list includes haggis, lefsa, gefilte fish, pickled pigs feet, pickled eggs and ANYTHING Jeffrey Dahmer would eat. Now about the seminole fluid delicacy - WHY NOT? It's great raw so why not use it in food? Not that I would know or nuttin' but if ingested after the donor has drank copious amounts of pineapple juice - it is extremely yummy - just sayin'. Sorta a pineapple - uhhmmm you know - smoothie. *wink wink nudge nudge*

Maureen Holloway: Diane!

Brent
RE:BREAST MILK AND COOKIES
Mar 11 2010 7:21AM
You say you like Cretons, any suggestions on where to find it in Toronto or do you have your own recipe(s)? I can get it when I travel to Ottawa but was looking for somewhere closer.

Maureen Holloway: Can't find it outside of Quebec - you have to make your own.

MS
RE:BREAST MILK AND COOKIES
Mar 10 2010 9:39PM
I really had no problem eating Lichee until I read the "eyeballs" comment.

Frank
RE:BREAST MILK AND COOKIES
Mar 10 2010 8:48PM
Mo I too love your list of yummy fodds and one of my all time favorites takes me back to a kid at home. Cretons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!MMMMMMMMMM. so bad for me but soooooooo gooooood! Has to be home made though.

Jim
RE:BREAST MILK AND COOKIES
Mar 10 2010 8:42PM
If you ever go to China - you could eat 4 of the things on your "Never" list for breakfast - and not even know it.

Jim K
RE:BREAST MILK AND COOKIES
Mar 10 2010 5:04PM
Hey Mo Just caught the video now. Anthony Bourdain is amazing. Just wondered what they called the first guy to try that dish.

Linda
RE:BREAST MILK AND COOKIES
Mar 10 2010 5:02PM
Years ago, friends had a farm and on that farm they had a cow called Buck. All our kids were little and would spend every minute we were visiting with Buck. A couple of years later we were there and for dinner was a huge roast of beef. We all oooed and awwwed until my friend reintroduced us to "Buck". Not much meat was eaten that night!

doug
RE:BREAST MILK AND COOKIES
Mar 10 2010 4:32PM
Well, I was at Sushi Kaji in Toronto (best Sushi in Toronto it's been said and I would agree) and they had some live crabs sort of sitting on the top of the Sushi Bar. Only they were barely alive. Then at some point, the crab's claws were separated from the crab's body with one fell swoop of a sword. Then the crab was put back on top of the bar. Still clinging to life. Anyway, I'm sad to say that I couldn't help but feel sorry for those crabs. All this fun for $300 for 2 people yet! But the reality of it all is that we live in a very cruel world if you happen to be a tasty animal. I just wish it didn't have to be so cruel sometimes. BTW, there is a cook book out there for cooking with certain, ahem, male fluids. Seriously. Google "Natural Harvest"

Andrew
RE:BREAST MILK AND COOKIES
Mar 10 2010 3:38PM
What do you have against Papaya? Do you like mango? It is similar in texture and taste. Now, lichee fruit I can understand; they remind me of eyeballs!

Maureen Holloway: I love mango, but papaya to me tastes like soap ... yet so does cilantro, and I love that, so go figure.

Barbara
RE:BREAST MILK AND COOKIES
Mar 10 2010 2:47PM
GROSS!!!! I saw a foodnetwork episode on the week-end featuring this "delicacy"...Yuck!!!!

Billy
RE:BREAST MILK AND COOKIES
Mar 10 2010 2:34PM
Growing up in Belfast we used to eat raw tripe lots of salt lol no wonder we were always fighting each other

Jim K
RE:BREAST MILK AND COOKIES
Mar 10 2010 2:00PM
Hey Mo Why buy a cow when you can get the milk for free? Actually I think this is disgusting. I'd never use dehydrated porcini mushroom powder on cheese!

Warren Fick
Jimmy Kimmel is the new Barbara Walters
Mar 10 2010 1:48PM
I listened to your "late show" on Q107 this morning. Great, as always. In your discussion with Terry, you mentioned the possibility of Jimmy Kimmel morphing into the new BW -- and bringing on Matt Damon as a guest. Did you see what he and his many Handsome Men Friends did as a post-Oscars send-up? The Handsome Men's Club is BIG on YouTube. Check this out and keep up the funny, funny morning shows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyGJXLxtVEo Warren

Scott
RE:BREAST MILK AND COOKIES
Mar 10 2010 1:28PM
My to eat list is the same as yours Mo, except for sweetbreads, I just don't have the balls!!

Mexdale
RE:BREAST MILK AND COOKIES
Mar 10 2010 12:52PM
One thing i have learned in my travels is "DO NOT EAT WITH YOUR EYES".We are a fortunate nation with all our great delis,supermarkets and processed foods,be it frozen or canned.Once in Mexico i was scarfin down some very delicious meat.After my third helping my future brother and law said to me "you really like that beef tongue".My stomach started to rumble but i really did like it.My view on the eating thing is "you take the time to prepare it and i will eat it".As long as you eat it with me.

Howie
RE:BREAST MILK AND COOKIES
Mar 10 2010 12:51PM
Bird's nest soup is a delicacy, tastes fantastic and is expensive. If I showed you where it comes from, you probably would not even want to try it. It's a swallow's nest minus the feathers and debris. There are many other asian delicacies that are like this.

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