You made jam from what?

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Royal hair: Jam made from Princess Di's hair - Yahoo! News

Sun Jul 4, 1:51 pm ET
LONDON – The royal hair? Jam made from one of Princess Diana's hairs has been selling strong at an art exhibition in London.


Sam Bompas, who founded catering company Bompas and Parr, says a tiny speck of the late princess of Wales' hair has been infused with gin, then combined with milk and sugar to make the preserve, which tastes like condensed milk.


Bompas says he bought the hair off eBay for $10 from a U.S. dealer who collects celebrity hair.
He said Sunday that the product, called "occult jam," aims to provoke people into thinking about food marketing and what they eat.


The jam is an exhibit at a surrealist art show at the Barbican Art Gallery and in the first week 500 of the 5-pound ($7.60) jars have been sold.

You know, I'm not even going to debate the authenticity here. Could be anyone's hair. Could be pubic hair. I just want to know why someone would make jam from hair. Morover, how does the hair become jam?

I don't know, maybe jam in the UK is just different from what I know here, but that doesn't sound like something I'd spread on toast. Condensed milk flavored jam? I'll stick to peach or strawberry.

[Jarre]

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Jam to us you call Jelly. its a fruit spread basically, but yeah thats bizzaar.....

[Takelli]

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One word...
EEEEEEWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!

[Grizzlebeard]

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Those crazy artists.

[Yellow Mage]

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I just want to know why someone would make jam from hair. Morover, how does the hair become jam?

I anticipated that this thread would be disgusting, but I had also anticipated that the jam would be made from toes. Wrong end of the human body, I see.

[TheGrandMom]

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All I can say is that if a MINUTE piece of hair in a food product grosses you out, I hope you eat nothing but fresh foods and never eat out.

[Feba]

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Even fresh foods are going to be covered in insect shit.

Honestly, people, food is pretty much disgusting, no matter what it is.

[TheGrandMom]

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lol True, but if some people would learn more about processed foods or tour the kitchens of the places they eat out at, I guarantee their food habits would change. Another side effect, some possible weight loss! lol

[Takelli]

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All I can say is that if a MINUTE piece of hair in a food product grosses you out, I hope you eat nothing but fresh foods and never eat out.

I just think that purposefully making food with hair in it is just disgusting.

[Feba]

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I just think that purposefully making food with hair in it is just disgusting.

have you ever seen that one asian dish that's like duck eggs or something.

only they use fertilized eggs, so you also eat yummy bird embryo.

this is sold by street vendors.

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diff'rent strokes man

[Takelli]

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... I didn't need to see that... Should have stuck it in a spoiler...

[Feba]

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It's just food. It's not any more disgusting than eating meat from anything else, you just aren't used to it. Plenty of seafood are served similarly in the West.

[Takelli]

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Who says I eat meat?

[Feba]

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Not saying you do, just that you wouldn't go around looking at a picture of steak going "EW". For better or worse, it's a cultural norm, and we're used to seeing it. I mean, again, these are sold at street vendors. They're no more novelty food to the people that eat them than hot dogs are to us.

And hey, at least in comparison to hot dogs, you can tell what these are made of.

[Yellow Mage]

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And hey, at least in comparison to hot dogs, you can tell what these are made of.

Conversely, they lack the one distinct upside that hot dogs have: ignorance is bliss.