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submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/5141a1ed-d598-46ec-8e41-ccee1f0486ac

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

i already did!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

🎵 La cucaleche, la cucaleche 🎵

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Absolutely cursed 😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

2070 certainly will be.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I didn’t expect to see targeted content on Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

GREG WE NEED ANSWERS

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You can't spell egregious without Greg

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

fuck now egregious will always be pronounced egregious in my mind

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks 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] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

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] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Maybe some recipes or how to make cheese.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Damn. I figured it was just grinded up cockroaches.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Snort milk every day

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Finally, a use for them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Milk has many uses.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I would rather drink piss than cokroach milk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago

I would rather drink roach milk than cock piss

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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] 2 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

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] 3 points 4 weeks ago

What a terrible day to be able to read.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Bam! Right in the brood sack

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks 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] 0 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Who's Greg? You mean Gaylord. Gaylord Focker