Not caramel, Camel.

An Austrian chocolate maker has joined forces with an Arabic camel farm to create a new delicacy - camel milk chocolates. Vienna-based Chocolatier Hochleitner took six months to develop the treats using milk from the Al Ain Camel Farm and Dairy in the UAE. Company head Johann Georg Hochleitner said camel's milk was a good alternative to cow's milk because it was lower in fat and sweeter. "We have combined camel's milk from the farm in Al Ain with honey from Yemen and have developed a healthy and delicious new type of chocolate," said Hochleitner. The first samples were made in Vienna although the partners plan to build a production plant in the UAE and will invest in another 2,000 camels. The proposed manufacturing plant is expected to come into production in June 2006, and will have a capacity of 50 tons of camel chocolate per month. Hochleitner and and his Arabic partners plan to target wealthy customers staying in luxury hotels in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

Part of me is saying, it's chocolate, so it must be ok. But the rest is screaming, that's milk out of a camel. So it says in the article that camel milk is delicious and good for you. It's still milk out of a camel. Eeewwww.... And no doubt out of my price range too.

I'll stick with godivas, thanks.

It sounds great! Lower fat and sweeter in chocolate sounds very successful.

But it's milk from a camel! If I tried some and didn't know it was milk from a camel, I might like it. But it's the element of knowing that it's camel that spoils the whole idea for me.

hey, i once had the juiciest steak at a BBQ put on by staff at a well known zoo here in Australia while on a Tech trip with a group of other zookeepers, trainees and working. It was only when we got back to our tech class that the steak in question was brought up, i don't know how much fact there is in it, but i heard it was water buffalo. there had been a cull and rather than wasting the meat the animal was slaughtered properly. Like i said it may have been myth but it wouldn't have surprised me, and it makes no difference to me whether or not it had been. Infact i dare say that had i heard it at the party i would have had more. If this chocolate was manufactured to a decent pasteurized standard i would happily try it.

Well at least they arent using dogs milk.

Buffalo steak is very nice I have heard. Im sure that camels milk is probably better and less insipid than cows milk. I was always told that ducks were nasty greasy things; yet roast duck is one of my favorite dishes. Tengu the poultry eater.