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[-] [email protected] 117 points 3 months ago

How is there not a single Futurama reference in the comments? I thought we were all nerds?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

i already did!

[-] [email protected] 79 points 3 months ago

What ever you do, dont tell RFK about raw cockroach milk.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago

There are not many times I feel sorry for cockroaches, but setting RFK onto them would be one.

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

He would snort lines of it ... it is crystals after all.

[-] [email protected] 78 points 3 months ago

🎵 La cucaleche, la cucaleche 🎵

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

2070 certainly will be.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago

I didn’t expect to see targeted content on Lemmy

[-] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago
[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

You can't spell egregious without Greg

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

fuck now egregious will always be pronounced egregious in my mind

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

Panasonic Blu-Ray, 99 dollars
32-inch LCD TV, 299
LG 42-inch HDTV, 489
Everything's on sale during Christmas in

[-] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago

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.

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

I'm calling it. Roach flu, next pandemic.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

Would've been useful knowledge while I was still living in the dorm...

[-] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

Why would cockroaches HAVE milk? They don't nurse young or anything like that

[-] [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* (last edited 3 months ago)

Snort milk every day

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

snorting is so...21st century.

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

Damn. I figured it was just grinded up cockroaches.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Is this acquired similar to how cow milk is or more like almond milk?

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

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.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

What a terrible day to be able to read.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

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?"

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Bam! Right in the brood sack

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

I wondered the same, but do we really want to know?

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

Just read the other reply and I can now say no I wish I didn't know.

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

I would rather drink piss than cokroach milk

[-] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago

In libertarian free market you won't even know what you're drinking. Just the prices.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago
[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

I would rather drink roach milk than cock piss

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Who's Greg? You mean Gaylord. Gaylord Focker

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

Fundamental commodities for a space game: baobab trees, eels, crystal milk, serfs.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I definitely assume that Palmetto Cheese is just ground-up palmetto bugs.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

And somehow, just as disgusting

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

Don't give the Springfield mob any ideas now...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Milk has many uses.

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