A Royal Spread

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The memory of the late Princess Diana has been preserved through her children and her charity work. And now she's being preserved as a preserve.

Sam Bompas is founder of the London based catering company Bompas and Parr. And he has a new product for your next event. Bompas is selling five pound jars of "occult jam" at London's Barbican Art Gallery and the $8 jars of jam contain the hair of Princess Diana.

Bompas says the spread is made by infusing a tiny piece of the Princess's hair with gin. That is then combined with milk and sugar to create a product that tastes like condensed milk. Bombas says he bought the hair on Ebay for $10 from a U.S. dealer who collects celebrity hair and sells it in extremely tiny parts.

Bompas says event organizers wanted products that were unsual. And since jam is a very mundane food, he decided to make a bizarre product out of the spread hoping to get people thinking about food marketing and the eating experience.

No word on how customers are reacting to the taste of his new business venture, or how he can really prove that it's authentic hair from the head of Princess Diana.