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[-] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

That's somehow even worse than my original mental image. Great work science!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Not worse as the insect shit we eat in the morning, called Honey.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Delicious bee puke, i can't wait to do a line of roachmilk.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Maybe some recipes or how to make cheese.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

So we could smash those up and snort them, could we not?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Nothing like snorting a fresh line of crystalized cockroach gut milk in the morning to start the day off right 🥰

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

snorting is so...21st century.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Snort milk every day

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Damn. I figured it was just grinded up cockroaches.

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