Food products made with semen

[snopes]

Comment: A good friend of mine once took a vacation in Europe, upon
returning he told me of something he'd discovered there. He'd found a
delicatessen (he wasn't specific on which part of Eurpoe he was in) that
sold doughnuts glazed with fox semen. He told me that, as it had been
explained to him, fox semen was used to glaze the doughnuts because of its
sweet flavor, high protein content, and nearly non-existent carb count.
As strange as this story was, I'm not ready to dismiss it just yet.

[Fantine]

I used to work graveyard at an answering service, and among others, we had the 24-hour answer line for Slippery Stuff and the credit card verification line for a "chat with a live girl" service. It led to some interesting phone calls, especially on the night shift. On the chat line, I once got a call from a guy claiming to be taking a survey about what women would think of a new chocolate candy with semen filling. And I believe my response was "Ew." Click.

[mags]

Anyone who would refer to semen as having a sweet flavor hasn't tasted it.

[pirateslife]

Now, if it were being used to glaze nuts... Here, I'll get it

[snapdragonfly]

Because I'm sure fox semen is much more plentiful, cheaper, and easier to acquire than, say, sugar. And people eating donuts are REALLY looking for a good sugar free low carb high protein snack. Oh, and I'm sure it tastes "sweet" even though it doesn't have any carbs in it.

What I want to know is what do they pay the foxes or do the foxes pay them...

[Toys For Big Boys]

I know Europe may seem a little odd to some people, but Fox semen doughnut glaze?

I could have sworn Snopes posted this before, but I cannot find it anywhere.

Edit: by the power of google I found it.

[Horse Chestnut]

Should fox semen doughnuts be served with civet poop coffee?

[Sara@home]

We eat eggs all the time. Why not seman?

[Eddylizard]

Originally Posted by snapdragonfly

Because I'm sure fox semen is much more plentiful, cheaper, and easier to acquire than, say, sugar. And people eating donuts are REALLY looking for a good sugar free low carb high protein snack. Oh, and I'm sure it tastes "sweet" even though it doesn't have any carbs in it.

What I want to know is what do they pay the foxes or do the foxes pay them...

I can see the headlines "Rise in European obesity linked to decline in fox population."

[snapdragonfly]

Originally Posted by Sara@home

We eat eggs all the time. Why not seman?

Well...in order to consume the eggs my chickens lay, all I have to do is
a) have chickens and
b)go find the eggs. The good little chooks just lay them without any help from anyone (including the roosters) and at the rate of just about one egg a day - and one egg is a pretty fair sized little harvest - one can amass a good quantity of foodstuffs in a short period of time, in exchange for mere chicken scratch. Literally.

So, it's quite a feasible little enterprise.

I suppose if foxes left a nice, easily gatherable little ball of semen, in a convenient and tidy little package like an eggshell, (and if scrambled semen with cheddar cheese were delicious, which I rather doubt) in exchange merely for the priveledge of being allowed to live one more day, we might look to it as a worthwhile source of food,

but,

since I don't know and don't even want to know just how much effort and technology would go into retrieving fox semen in big enough amounts to be worth diddly squat,

I think that sort of answers the question - don't you?

[Sara@home]

Originally Posted by snapdragonfly

Well...in order to consume the eggs my chickens lay, all I have to do is
a) have chickens and
b)go find the eggs. The good little chooks just lay them without any help from anyone (including the roosters) and at the rate of just about one egg a day - and one egg is a pretty fair sized little harvest - one can amass a good quantity of foodstuffs in a short period of time, in exchange for mere chicken scratch. Literally.

So, it's quite a feasible little enterprise.

I suppose if foxes left a nice, easily gatherable little ball of semen, in a convenient and tidy little package like an eggshell, (and if scrambled semen with cheddar cheese were delicious, which I rather doubt) in exchange merely for the priveledge of being allowed to live one more day, we might look to it as a worthwhile source of food,

but,

since I don't know and don't even want to know just how much effort and technology would go into retrieving fox semen in big enough amounts to be worth diddly squat,

I think that sort of answers the question - don't you?

Actually, I was thinking of caviar as much as chicken eggs when I wrote that but I see your point that harvesting would be an issue...

[surfcitydogdad]

This OP seems awfully familiar, but I'm too lazy to find the old one.

Instead, I'll add an item that sounds like it might have semen in it:
a submarine sandwich.

Originally Posted by snopes

Comment: A good friend of mine once took a vacation in Europe, upon
returning he told me of something he'd discovered there. He'd found a
delicatessen (he wasn't specific on which part of Eurpoe he was in) that
sold doughnuts glazed with fox semen. He told me that, as it had been
explained to him, fox semen was used to glaze the doughnuts because of its
sweet flavor, high protein content, and nearly non-existent carb count.As strange as this story was, I'm not ready to dismiss it just yet.

I think this is the detail that makes the story bogus. All semen has fructose (a simple sugar) also found in fruit. It is needed to nourish the spermatazoa, which being active swimmers need a lot of energy.

I hypothesize that a pastry chef with a randy imagination composed the name for a secret recipe. Sacre! Could the chef be "the fox"?

I do believe there are manhy people who are employed as animal semen harvesters but rather for the porpuse of breeding than for food production.

[Sunny Lea]

Originally Posted by surfcitydogdad

This OP seems awfully familiar, but I'm too lazy to find the old one.

From a bit earlier in the thread:

Originally Posted by Toys For Big Boys

I could have sworn Snopes posted this before, but I cannot find it anywhere.

Edit: by the power of google I found it.

There is another reason why the story is bogus:

IF fox-semen truly was a great delicacy, healthy and good-tasting, then obviously some European would certainly have a fox-farm for extracting this exquisiteness for the jaded palates of the über-rich.

People will eat weirder stuff than that, although I must admit nothing really comes to mind at the moment.

However, having paid a small fortune for this distilled connoiseurism, so cook in Europe is ever going to use it as glazing for a donut.
It would be like using caviar as a topping for a McDonalds hamburger.

[Joostik]

Originally Posted by Sara@home

Actually, I was thinking of caviar as much as chicken eggs when I wrote that but I see your point that harvesting would be an issue...

If you were thinking of caviar then, yes, fish roe is also eaten and considered a delicacy.

[snopes]

Comment: A couple of adults and children have told me over the past month
that one of the ingredients in Gatorade is raccoon semen, and that is
perhaps one of the reasons Gatorade is not certified kosher. This can't
possibly be true...can it?

[A Turtle Named Mack]

Originally Posted by snopes

Comment: A couple of adults and children have told me over the past month
that one of the ingredients in Gatorade is raccoon semen, and that is
perhaps one of the reasons Gatorade is not certified kosher. This can't
possibly be true...can it?

You know, being the person who has to jerk off raccoons all day has got to be about the worst job in the world.

[1958Fury]

Originally Posted by A Turtle Named Mack

You know, being the person who has to jerk off raccoons all day has got to be about the worst job in the world.

Or the best, if you're into that.

[Wild Redhead]

Originally Posted by A Turtle Named Mack

You know, being the person who has to jerk off raccoons all day has got to be about the worst job in the world.

I wonder if they give them some raccoon porn to get the little fellows excited.