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[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 117 points 4 days ago

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

[-] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

i already did!

[-] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 77 points 4 days ago

🎵 La cucaleche, la cucaleche 🎵

[-] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago
[-] Comment105@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

2070 certainly will be.

[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 79 points 4 days ago

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

[-] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 30 points 4 days ago

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

[-] Wilco@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

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

[-] Benchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago
[-] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Milk has many uses.

[-] Greg@lemmy.ca 45 points 4 days ago

I didn’t expect to see targeted content on Lemmy

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 23 points 4 days ago
[-] Greg@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days ago

You can't spell egregious without Greg

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

fuck now egregious will always be pronounced egregious in my mind

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago

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

[-] eldain@feddit.nl 42 points 4 days 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.

[-] scutiger@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

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

[-] phx@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 days ago

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

[-] ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz 35 points 3 days 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.

[-] Oneser@lemm.ee 19 points 3 days ago

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

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

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

[-] nomy@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 days ago

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

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

Maybe some recipes or how to make cheese.

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago

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

[-] EySkibidiBabBab@feddit.dk 10 points 3 days ago

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

[-] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Snort milk every day

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

snorting is so...21st century.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago

Damn. I figured it was just grinded up cockroaches.

[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago

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

[-] glitch1985@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

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

[-] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 36 points 3 days 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.

[-] glitch1985@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

What a terrible day to be able to read.

[-] DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 14 points 3 days 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?"

[-] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago

Bam! Right in the brood sack

[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 3 days ago

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

[-] glitch1985@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

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

[-] mhague@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

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

[-] nectar45@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 days ago

I would rather drink piss than cokroach milk

[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago

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

[-] nectar45@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago
[-] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 days ago

I would rather drink roach milk than cock piss

[-] misterwu@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Who's Greg? You mean Gaylord. Gaylord Focker

[-] houstoneulers@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

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

[-] blazeknave@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago
[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

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

[-] socsa@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago

And somehow, just as disgusting

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