Baker uses urine from public toilets to make ‘Goldilocks bread’

And other stories from the stranger side of life

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Thursday, July 16, 2020 - 6:00am

A baker in France has been collecting women’s urine from a public toilet to make “Goldilocks bread”. Louise Raguet, who describes herself as an “eco-feminist”, deploys the urine to fertilise the wheat that she then uses to make up her “Boucle d’Or” or “Goldilocks bread”. Next up, she says she wants to “break taboos over excrement”.

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Teens use masks to buy booze

Teenagers are using coronavirus masks to pretend to be elderly and buy alcohol. In a growing trend on the social media app TikTok, masked chlidren are rubbing white powder into their hair to make it grey and donning older-style clothes before heading to the off licence. 

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