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https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/5141a1ed-d598-46ec-8e41-ccee1f0486ac

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] SidewaysHighways 4 points 6 hours ago

i already did!

[–] glitch1985 14 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 hours ago (2 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] 6 points 3 hours 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?"

[–] glitch1985 13 points 5 hours ago

What a terrible day to be able to read.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] glitch1985 3 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] misterwu 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Who's Greg? You mean Gaylord. Gaylord Focker

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I didn’t expect to see targeted content on Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

GREG WE NEED ANSWERS

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

You can't spell egregious without Greg

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

fuck now egregious will always be pronounced egregious in my mind

[–] [email protected] 42 points 10 hours ago

🎵 La cucaleche, la cucaleche 🎵

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 hours 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] 50 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] latenightnoir 24 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I would rather drink piss than cokroach milk

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I would rather drink roach milk than cock piss

[–] InternetCitizen2 21 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Fuck

[–] GraniteM 4 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] blazeknave 3 points 8 hours ago

Nope✌️

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Man. I could have been milkisroach and not milkisklim

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

And somehow, just as disgusting