The latest crazy candidate for a food fad may prove to be quite a mouthful.
Raise your glass if you fancy a shot of horse semen, a purported delicacy that will debut at the Wildfoods Festival in Hokitika, New Zealand, in March.
It is sort of quirky, I suppose, festival organizer Mike Keenan told AOL News, with Kiwi understatement.
It is the protein of the stallion. It is going to be tastefully done.
The shots, which will sell for $10, are pitched as being healthy energy boosters and will be available to sample as they come or in cherry, licorice or banoffee pie flavors.
You often hear from a female perspective that semen has an awful alkaline taste, so we thought we'd better make it more user friendly, explained horse trainer Lindsay Kerslake, whose stallions will supply the shots, according to The Australian.
Think of it like a milkshake. ... It's all safe. We're getting the semen in the same way breeders do, using an artificial vagina and storing it in the formula they use.
Full story: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/25/stallion-semen-served-up-in-new-zealand-as-new-energy-drink/
Raise your glass if you fancy a shot of horse semen, a purported delicacy that will debut at the Wildfoods Festival in Hokitika, New Zealand, in March.
It is sort of quirky, I suppose, festival organizer Mike Keenan told AOL News, with Kiwi understatement.
It is the protein of the stallion. It is going to be tastefully done.
The shots, which will sell for $10, are pitched as being healthy energy boosters and will be available to sample as they come or in cherry, licorice or banoffee pie flavors.
You often hear from a female perspective that semen has an awful alkaline taste, so we thought we'd better make it more user friendly, explained horse trainer Lindsay Kerslake, whose stallions will supply the shots, according to The Australian.
Think of it like a milkshake. ... It's all safe. We're getting the semen in the same way breeders do, using an artificial vagina and storing it in the formula they use.
Full story: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/25/stallion-semen-served-up-in-new-zealand-as-new-energy-drink/
