Most people, when they get a food item with hair in it, send it back to the kitchen and register complaints with the staff. However, if you’re catering mogul and surreal artist Sam Bompas, you take that hair and make it into a food product itself! He’s the man behind an exhibit of so-called occult jams, which include one made from the wood on Admiral Nelson’s ship Victory, sand from the Great Pyramid of Egypt, and of course, a jam made from Princess Diana’s hair. Sounds awful… awfully tasty, that is!
Bompas was commissioned by the Barbican Art Gallery to produce some themed foods for their exhibit, The Surreal House. The hair was preserved with a small speck of gin, then added to a milk and sugar mixture to produce the jam, which has been jarred and is being sold at the Barbican’s gift shop for £5 a jar. It’s no bacon jam, but the taste doesn’t actually sound too bad! Bompas bought the Lady Di hair from a collector on eBay for $10.
“We thought about it and the most mundane food of all is jam. So we made it a surreal object,” said Bompas. So not only is she the subject of a popular conspiracy, she’s also now a delicious snack food!
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