Zurich says no to restaurant's breast milk menu


	Zurich says no to restaurant's breast milk menu

tommy2balmy

9-18-2008 3:28 PM

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human breast milk, restaurant, odd

tommy2balmy says:

Locher offered SFr16.25 ($14.50) for a litre of milk, calculating that he needed about five litres to put a menu together. He got "one or two" responses to his advertisement but had no time to collect any milk by the time the authorities intervened.

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