This "Breast Milk" Ice Cream Is Shocking The Nation, So We All Tried It (It Was Surprisingly Delicious)
Count this as one of the most awkward ice cream parties we've ever had.
Breast Milk Ice Cream — it's here and it's real. Well, kind of.
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About nine months ago (get it?), baby brand Frida cleverly teased the release of their new Breast Milk Ice Cream — no, it's not made from human milk, but it is meant to mimic the flavors and nutritional value of it.
According to their website, the ice cream is "lightly sweet, a little salty, with hints of honey and a dash of colostrum." If, like me, you're unaware of what colostrum is, it's the first breast milk released after giving birth and is commonly referred to as "liquid gold" due to its high concentration of nutrients and antibodies.
Of course, Frida isn't using the human-made stuff; instead, they've included bovine (cow) colostrum in their ice cream. Thus, Breast Milk Ice Cream was born in partnership with OddFellows, a small-batch ice cream company, for a limited-time run at their Dumbo location in Brooklyn, New York.
Let's just say, the internet was confused at first...
People were also a little intrigued. Seems like a lot of people out there have tasted breast milk.
And, of course, there were the jokes, from SNL to Late Night. As Stephen Colbert put it: "I'm afraid you will not win me over, no matter how many times you use the word 'colostrum.'"
Oh, and let's not forget the breast milk ice cream truck casually rolling down the streets of NYC! What a time to be alive.
After witnessing what might possibly be one of my favorite marketing campaigns, I knew it was my duty to take one for the team and try this out. But since I couldn't polish off three pints of ice cream alone, I sent one of the more...embarrassing office-wide Slack messages I've ever had to send.
Safe to say, I was (rightfully) bullied.
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Despite my coworkers' skepticism, 12 of us gathered to give this thing a taste. Could we compare it to breast milk? Well, no (except for one of us, but we'll get to that). But we could decide whether or not it's just generally good ice cream.
First things first: the packaging, which was aptly branded with many boobs. Honestly, 10/10 on the design — I think it tells us exactly what we're in for.
Here came the most shocking part, though: the color. While we were expecting the yellow-ish tint Frida promised, we weren't expecting it to look like the cheese powder from a box of Kraft. Unfortunately, the look was giving mango sorbet, not creamy, delicious ice cream.
A lot of people mentioned that the color "threw them off" and looked a bit artificial, even if it was meant to mimic "liquid gold." (After looking up photos of colostrum, I couldn't find one that was this yellow.) I was pretty much met with WTF reactions the second I handed folks a scoop. Not a strong start.
Now, onto the taste. I didn't mention the flavor notes Frida lists on their site to anyone — I only reassured them that they were, in fact, not consuming human milk.
TL;DR: Once we got past the psychological barrier, we actually really liked it. Most people described it as "aggressively milky" (fitting, honestly) and said that you could really taste the heavy cream and egg yolks you'd associate with a rich French ice cream. The creamy texture was also divine; I'd give that a 10/10 alone.
We even got hints of caramel and toasted marshmallow. A lot of us thought it just tasted like really good vanilla ice cream, even if it was very sweet. The one thing that seemed to be missing was that salty note Frida lists. One tester even took matters into his own hands and added a sprinkle of salt to his scoop, which he described as "magical."
So...did it taste like breast milk? Well, only one of us (who had consensually tasted his friend's breast milk) could answer that question. In his experience, it was a cross between "skim milk and coconut milk," and this ice cream tasted like neither. But, hey, not everyone's breast milk tastes the same, I'd imagine.
🍦 Our final rating: 8.2/10.
Jokes aside, this was genuinely just really good ice cream with a rich taste and velvety texture. Will we reach for breast milk ice cream next time we're looking for a treat? Probably not, but it did help bring us all together for a brief ice cream party, and for that, I'm forever thankful to Frida for a flavor that now lives rent-free in our minds.
If you want to try Frida's Breast Milk Ice Cream, you have until August 10 to get yourself a scoop at OddFellows' Dumbo location or order a pint online. (Please let us know what you think if you manage to get your hands on it.)
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