Finally, a use for them
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2025
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Milk has many uses.
🎵 La cucaleche, la cucaleche 🎵
Absolutely cursed 😂
2070 certainly will be.
What ever you do, dont tell RFK about raw cockroach milk.
There are not many times I feel sorry for cockroaches, but setting RFK onto them would be one.
He would snort lines of it ... it is crystals after all.
I didn’t expect to see targeted content on Lemmy
GREG WE NEED ANSWERS
You can't spell egregious without Greg
fuck now egregious will always be pronounced egregious in my mind
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I'm kindof a nimby when it comes do giant cockroach farms in my area, please don't scale this up. Don't make "oops 2 billion milkroaches have escaped" a thing.
I'm calling it. Roach flu, next pandemic.
Why would cockroaches HAVE milk? They don't nurse young or anything like that
Cockroach milk is sourced from the Pacific Beetle cockroach, a type of roach that gives birth to live offspring and produces 'milk', which it feeds its embryos through a 'brood sac' (essentially a cockroach womb). There is, in fact, no actual 'milking' involved: scientists need to carve out the cockroach’s gut in order to access the milk, which is in the form of crystals.
That's somehow even worse than my original mental image. Great work science!
Not worse as the insect shit we eat in the morning, called Honey.
Delicious bee puke, i can't wait to do a line of roachmilk.
Maybe some recipes or how to make cheese.
So we could smash those up and snort them, could we not?
Nothing like snorting a fresh line of crystalized cockroach gut milk in the morning to start the day off right 🥰
Snort milk every day
snorting is so...21st century.
Damn. I figured it was just grinded up cockroaches.
Would've been useful knowledge while I was still living in the dorm...
Is this acquired similar to how cow milk is or more like almond milk?
Popped open the article to find out, and the answer is neither. The 'milk' is crystals collected by cutting open a particular kind of roach and extracting them from its brood sack.
There's a phrase I didn't know I'd be using today.
What a terrible day to be able to read.
I wonder what kind of research goes in a lab where someone goes "what if we cut the grub from the pregnant cockroach and test to see it's nutrition content?"
Bam! Right in the brood sack
Fundamental commodities for a space game: baobab trees, eels, crystal milk, serfs.
I would rather drink piss than cokroach milk
In libertarian free market you won't even know what you're drinking. Just the prices.
Fuck
I would rather drink roach milk than cock piss
Who's Greg? You mean Gaylord. Gaylord Focker
Don't give the Springfield mob any ideas now...
Nope✌️
I definitely assume that Palmetto Cheese is just ground-up palmetto bugs.
And somehow, just as disgusting