A jam made from Princess Diana’s hair was sold out within days for £5 a pot. Makers Bompas and Parr created the preserve for a surrealist exhibition at London’s Barbican. The controversial conserve uses a “speck” of her hair purchased from a US dealer on eBay, the Daily Express reported on its website on Sunday.
The jam could soon hit supermarket shelves after top retailers showed an interest in stocking it.
Sam Bompas, who founded the quirky catering company with school friend Henry Parr three years ago, said: “It started out as jam as art, taking something very mundane and turning it into something fun which tastes good. “The milk jam takes a speck of Princess Diana’s hair and infuses it in gin before it is turned into jam with milk and sugar. We got the hair off eBay. There’s a chap in the States who buys up celebrity hair, then cuts it up into small pieces and sells it on. At the moment we are only selling it through the Barbican but I am speaking to a couple of really big retailers.