Triple J Alum Veronica Milsom Cooked Her Placenta Into Sausage Rolls For A Dinner Party

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Totally bizarre food combos and snacks have been satisfying people’s cravings throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

But here’s an unusual one that could either have you salivating or feeling squeamish at the mere sight of it.

After giving birth to her son a few months ago, Australian radio personality Veronica Milsom decided to cook up her placenta and stuff it into a sausage roll, before feeding it to her former Triple J co-host Lewis Hobba.

The Zero Waste Baby podcast host organised a dinner party with Lewis and his obstetrician girlfriend, Alex and that’s where the “pla-sausage roll” was served.

“I decided raising a tiny human wasn’t hard enough, and that I should make the first three months even harder, by raising her without anything that goes into landfill,” she said on Triple J’s Hobba & Hing show.

“That means avoiding all disposable baby stuff to do my bit for the environment, so I can sleep at night… except of course I have a new born so I can’t actually sleep at night.”

She said she “contemplated making a Plasagne, or a placenta-pizza” but then thought why not “let it hide in the delicious pastry”.

The process of making the dish was an...

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