How is there not a single Futurama reference in the comments? I thought we were all nerds?
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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!
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.
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?"
What a terrible day to be able to read.
I wondered the same, but do we really want to know?
Just read the other reply and I can now say no I wish I didn't know.
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
🎵 La cucaleche, la cucaleche 🎵
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.
Who's Greg? You mean Gaylord. Gaylord Focker
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.
Would've been useful knowledge while I was still living in the dorm...
I would rather drink piss than cokroach milk
I would rather drink roach milk than cock piss
In libertarian free market you won't even know what you're drinking. Just the prices.
Fuck
I definitely assume that Palmetto Cheese is just ground-up palmetto bugs.
Nope✌️
And somehow, just as disgusting