Soylent Green is... cockroaches?

MKSixer · 06-19-2018, 09:31 PM

I thought I'd liven this up with a couple of pictures!! I'm here to help.

You're welcome!!

Taskmaster · 06-20-2018, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by MKSixer

I thought I'd liven this up with a couple of pictures!! I'm here to help.

You're welcome!!

wren57 · 06-20-2018, 12:34 PM

It's time we nuke ourselves and start over.

The Wind Breezes · 06-20-2018, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by MKSixer

I thought I'd liven this up with a couple of pictures!!

My mouth is watering already. It's like seeing a picture of a juicy hamburger or bacon on the grill. Yum.

UncleWede · 06-20-2018, 01:31 PM

Does one peel them, or kinda slurp out of the shell like a crab leg? I guess it depends, in part, on whether they are hard or soft boiled?

Darth One · 06-20-2018, 02:04 PM

Imagine once the GMO companies get a hold of them and start breeding them bigger and bigger...

MKSixer · 06-20-2018, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Darth One

Imagine once the GMO companies get a hold of them and start breeding them bigger and bigger...

I just threw up in my mouth a little.

dzvero · 06-20-2018, 06:16 PM

Best food for China and India. No offence but some time ago we had thousands of vietnamese people to work for few years and all street dogs stated to disappear . So not surprised

IllSic_Design · 06-20-2018, 06:54 PM

Lmao at all the people who thought it was possible to filter out all rodents and insects from food during harvesting/processing.

Mingwan · 06-20-2018, 08:50 PM

This guy is an early adopter.

Fuck I ruined my own dinner.

MKSixer · 06-21-2018, 01:05 AM

#thestuffofnightmares

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Originally Posted by Mingwan

This guy is an early adopter.

Fuck I ruined my own dinner.

Jb1707 · 06-21-2018, 02:40 AM

Watch him eat a freakin live tarantula

rak299 · 06-21-2018, 02:43 AM

I only eat free-range roaches

NEFARIOUS · 06-29-2018, 07:04 AM

Time for some singing/dancing roaches from Joe's Apartment to commemorate this moment:

BMWrules7 · 06-29-2018, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by The Wind Breezes

So for anyone not aware roaches are the food of the future:

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The industry is booming in China where dried cockroaches can sell for up to US$20 a pound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockroach_farming

Among the more memorable quotes in that article:

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Cockroaches are a cheap source of protein, and, like other insects, are proposed as an alternative to the meat industry.

Better yet:

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The Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine in Bangalore, India—along with other institutions—are investigating the possibility of farming cockroaches for their milk.

No, no, no, no.

All it needs is a little curry.

Darth One · 06-29-2018, 10:58 AM

Wait wait....why the fuck is a stem cell lab trying to milk cockroaches?

UncleWede · 06-29-2018, 11:06 AM

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Wait wait....why the fuck is a stem cell lab trying to milk cockroaches?

Gotta pay the bills

The Wind Breezes · 07-26-2018, 11:46 PM

To update this thread, I've decided to start breeding roaches. I've got some baby americans which will hopefully turn out to include both sexes. Right now they're about 3mm long and very cute but soon they will grow to be monsters!

I also got some mixed gender hissers on the way. Let's hope they don't die in the mail. That kind is considerably more handsome, and should produce a huge amount of offspring although they take months to mature.

I'll let you all know when they're ready to eat.

Mingwan · 07-26-2018, 11:59 PM

Seriously?

The Wind Breezes · 07-27-2018, 12:43 AM

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Seriously?

Absolutely. Not sure if I'll eat any; if I do they'll be cooked first. I'll post some pics of the hissers when they get here.

TXSTYLE · 07-27-2018, 12:45 PM

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Doth thou even hoist?

The Wind Breezes · 05-21-2019, 08:41 PM

Months have come and gone and I forgot to update this thread. First, many of you will be disappointed to hear that I gave up on the American roach colony (for now) because they are too damn fast and they fly.

Now I'm breeding a larger, more nutritious species of hissing roach. Below are a few individuals and a freshly molted adult. I haven't eaten any yet because they are kind of cute, but preparations are already underway. I talked to a Mexican dude who knows how to cook grasshoppers and these should be similar, although the tough shell may be an issue. We'll see.

This is the future of human cuisine:

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