To think this puts a whole now spin on herman the german friendship cake!

[TheoriginalLEM]

cuntsourdogh this is so NOT a gfeminist issue!

Can you imagine the carnage that would've broken out if someone had posted on AIBU... 'To think using my fanny gunk might be a good way to make sourdough given I have a bad dose of thrush?' It would be mumsnet vs troll Armageddon

Agog

I'm not at all interested in her feminist slant, in faintly amused by it but proper isolation of microbes (not that this is what she has done here) is often done from disgusting starting material. Once it's been through a few rounds of purifications on an agar plate, it's not snot or poo or vaginal discharge anymore, it's just a microbe in a petri dish and possibly a very useful one.

Totally agree igne, but that's not what she did, she scraped her vaginal secretions off a dildo! Bleurgh

I know that's not what she's done and she chose the wrong yeast species for it.

Igneococcus. I nominate you to set up a proper scientific experiment as to which type of yeast is better for sour dough making.

Answering questions like

Does it affect the texture?
Taste - is cuntsourdough likely to have a sweet or savoury fishy flavour?

Well, I think she makes a very interesting economic point.

We don't exploit our own bodily resources anything like enough. Most of us have useful source of raw material to make black pudding once a month . From time to time we get the starting point for an interesting pate, which we follow up with the makings of a very special ice cream (this one has been attempted commercially, of course.

I feel she may be on the way to a Nobel Prize for Economics.

Look at the vagina cakes at the bottom of that link, what with the cow turd cake thread I have not laughed on MN so much for ages.

Muffins comment brilliant.

the original some of my colleagues would be able to answer the sourdough question, we sell yeasts and sourdoughs to bakeries (and breweries/wineries/distilleries) although I'm in a completely different area of the company. I bet this story has been discussed intensively among them but they are in a different country and time zone. I'll see what they say once they are at work.

But....but....it's sourdough! You don't need yeast. You also don't need fanny juice to make your own starter! All you need is flour and water.

If you are lucky. The wrong yeasts and bacteria may be floating around in your kitchen. I get why one would ensure the right ones are there ...

But. Using yeast overgrowth seems counterintuitive. The woman who made yoghurt with vaginal lactobacili used the bacteria from a healthy vagina.

@Theoriginal: Sour, if the vagina is healthy. Fishy if the woman got PiVed recently and/or has an infection.
Could be used as a diagnosis method.

Gasp - are you implying we shouldn't be flushing the brownstuff? or just canibalising ourselves?

Don't get me wrong, im quite happy for DP to chow down if he must...

Some of the comments at the bottom are hilarious!

'You should try her chowder'
'Goes well with box wine'

I feel sick

LEM, I think I'm arguing that we should all eat ourselves. Of course, men are at a bit of a disadvantage here. They don't have the wide variety of fluids/discharges that we have.