Updated on 13 October 2026. The original 2008 post is kept below.
What actually happened
The breast milk menu never made it to a plate. In September 2008, Hans Locher, owner of the Storchen restaurant in Iberg near Winterthur, Switzerland, advertised for nursing mothers to sell him their milk. He planned soups, a lamb curry, antelope steak and the local classic Zürcher Geschnetzeltes with sauces containing at least 75 percent human milk, mixed with whipped cream.
His idea went back 35 years, to experiments with surplus milk after his daughter was born. “We have all been raised on it,” he argued. Zurich’s food inspectors had a drier answer: humans are not on the list of approved milk producers, alongside cows and sheep. They also said he couldn’t guarantee safe storage and freshness, and threatened legal action. Locher dropped the plan before collecting any milk.
So the original post’s headline was a little too hopeful. The menu was offered on paper and stayed there.
More dairy drama: dog food for humans, or browse Food Crimes.
From the 2008 original
A Swiss restaurant n the exclusive Winterthur resort introduced recently a new menu, which has a list of special dishes containing at least 75% of human breast milk. These spe4cialities contain such meals as meat stew and soup.
So, if you think you “quit the habit” too hastily, now is your chance to get back the lost “nutrition”
Source: www.metro.co.uk
