LONDON, England (AP) — The royal hair? Jam made from what its maker claims is one of Princess Diana’s hairs is up for sale at an art exhibition in London.

The preserve, called “occult jam”, is part of a surrealist art show at London’s Barbican Art Gallery that includes exhibits by Salvador Dali and Rene Margritte. The five-pound-a-jar ($7.60) jam is both art and food, Sam Bompas, who founded catering company Bompas and Parr, said Sunday.

He said the preserve is made by infusing a tiny speck of the late princess of Wales’ hair with gin, which is then combined with milk and sugar to create a product with a taste resembling condensed milk.

The hair was bought on eBay for $10 from a US dealer who collects what he says is celebrity hair and sells it in extremely tiny parts.

The art show’s organisers asked his company to come up with a response in food to the exhibition’s surrealist theme. Bompas said he decided to make the bizarre product to provoke people into thinking about food marketing and how language enhances the everyday eating experience, he said.

“We thought about it and the most mundane food of all is jam. So we made it a surreal object,” he said.

Self-styled “food architects,” past projects included a banquet consisting entirely of gelatine molds shaped like architectural landmarks.

In another, they gave audiences at a screening of Peter Greenaway’s film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, scratch-and-sniff cards that evoked smells from key scenes in the movie.

Husband, wife top pit spitting contest

EAU CLAIRE, Michigan (AP) — A husband and wife took top honours for the second straight year at the annual cherry pit spitting competition in southwestern Michigan.

Rick “Pellet Gun” Krause spit a pit 51 feet, three inches (15.6 metres) Saturday for his 16th win at the International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship. Organisers say Krause entered on a motorcycle, dropped to his knees in the spitter’s box and ejected the winning pit.

His wife, Marlene, took first place in the women’s contest, spitting a pit 34 feet, 6 inches (10.6 metres). It was her seventh win.

Two-headed calf

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — A farmer in northern Egypt says his cow has given birth to a two-headed calf that he calls a “divine miracle.”

Sobhy el-Ganzoury said Saturday, it took two hours and much pulling to deliver the rare calf. He said the difficult birth has weakened the calf’s legs.

El-Ganzoury said the veterinarian informed him that the calf, which was born this week, is now in stable condition and is expected to survive. He said he intends to keep the animal as a reminder that “God is able to do anything.”

The calf still can’t stand up because of its heavy heads and weak legs, and is being fed her mother’s milk with a baby bottle.