Heston Blumenthal on Good food channel- any guesses what he had in his mouth?

[cambridgeferret]

A tampon.(unused!)

Apparently it's one of the most absorbent things for removing the grot layer off the tongue during tasting sessions. Looked like a Lillets super BTW

The sight of the string hanging out of his mouth will remain with me for the rest of this afternoon :)

eeeewwww!

They are used to stem bleeding when teeth get knocked out

I've seen him with FAR worse things in his mouth than that

Sea Cucumber, anyone?

and there was me thinking he'd finally got his own penis in there [doh]