Dromedary Dairy

In a world where you can get a chocolate TV dinner, chocolate Band-Aids, bacon-flavored chocolate, absinthe chocolate and chocolate made of goat's, sheep's and rice milk, is there room for anything stranger?

Well, for those of you (OK, us) who can never get enough chocolate, no matter the type, we bring you a rare find —  a confection that its maker refers to as "the refined ambassador of Arabia." Sweet tooth, meet the world's first (and, as the company makes sure to note, finest) chocolate made of camel's milk.

Try some next Wednesday; it's a logical snack for hump day. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

The maker of the chocolate, Dubai's Al Nassma, which apparently aims to become "the Godiva of the Middle East," announced the other day that it will start exporting its confections from the United Arab Emirates to other countries in the Middle East and beyond. Camel-milk chocolates might well be hitting US store shelves in a few months.

The company was established last October and has plans to ramp up production to 100 tons of chocolate per year. It maintains a farm with 3,000 camels and a store that sells its wares, which are also supplied to luxury hotels and private airlines. With luck, Al Nassma will soon also be supplying its products to London's Harrods and San Francisco's Chocolate Covered.

Camel's milk is apparently even healthier than cow's milk, with five times the vitamin C, less fat and less lactose. Not only that, it is in fact produced by dromedaries, which is just darn cool. What is yet to be seen, is whether it makes good candy.

I volunteer to do the taste test.