In other news: Lady Gaga threatens to sue over breast milk ice cream
The notice in the shop window informing customers that "Baby Gaga breast milk ice cream" was sold out. (Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images)
Lady Gaga is asking a London ice cream parlor to stop selling "Baby Gaga," an ice cream made with human breast milk. The shop sold out of the flavor (pasteurized and mixed with vanilla pods and lemon zest; a serving sells for the American equivalent of $22.50) when it was introduced last week, but government officials confiscated the double-scoop treat over health concerns. Now Gaga is weighing in: Lawyers for the pop superstar contacted the owner and gave him until Wednesday to change the name or face trademark infringement, reports Britain's Evening Standard. The lawyers call the ice cream "deliberately provocative and, to many people, nausea-inducing." Shop owner Matt O'Connor said he's prepared to fight: "Since the dawn of time the word 'gaga' has been one of the first discernible phrases to come from a baby's mouth. This is why we chose the name."
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Seriously. Gaga is the name of my sister's first baby doll. She named the doll in the late 1950s! My sister still has the doll.
Posted by: ceciann | March 7, 2011 7:32 PM | Report abuse
I think Lady Gaga should be careful,Brian May and co could do the same to her.
Posted by: scouser69 | March 10, 2011 10:06 AM | Report abuse
I think Lady Gaga should be careful,Brian May and co could do the same to her.
Posted by: scouser69 | March 10, 2011 10:07 AM | Report abuse
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