Insurance for ... Taste Buds?!

Sure you can insure your house, car, precious artwork … but how about taste buds? Turns out that you CAN insure parts of your anatomy, especially when those parts generate income. For example:

John Harrison

No wonder he’s smiling. John Harrison is, and has been for many years, the official ice cream taster at Dreyer’s Ice Cream and on a daily basis approves or rejects ice cream according to its many different varieties of flavour, colour and texture. It’s a difficult job but someone’s got to do it, and that someone just happens to be John, a man who uses a gold spoon (there’s no aftertaste) to judge ice cream in order to pay the bills. Unsurprisingly, his taste buds are insured for £700,000.

More about the strange world of taste insurance: Link | John Harrison’s website at Dreyer’s – Thanks Dave!