• The Assman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      572·
      9 months ago

      Fun fact, there is an acceptable level of bug parts allowed in food products. And the level is not zero.

      • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        541·
        9 months ago

        Fuck man, bug parts are probably some of the healthiest things in your food.

        The shit has micro plastics in it. Stuff that fucks up the kids you don’t even have yet.

        Bugs are no big deal. Except they also have micro plastics in them.

        • XEALEnglish
          28·
          9 months ago

          The worst is not the bug, it’s where the the bug has been and what it has eaten…

        • somethingsnappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          17·
          9 months ago

          Friend is an epidemiologist. Someone ran their coffee maker at their cabin after a while away. It tasted funny. Mostly because there was a BAT in it.

        • The Assman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          6·
          9 months ago

          I actually do have a small amount of mealworm protein every month. I was just trying to fuck with that other guy.

      • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        Humans have likely eaten bugs with their food by accident for as long as humans existed. Bugs are everywhere, and its impossible to be meticulous and get them all out always.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        I’ve eaten insects willingly. I’ve had crickets, I’ve had ants, I’ve had beetle larvae. They were all fine.

        What I haven’t eaten is roaches. Because roaches are fucking nasty.

    • x4740N@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      9 months ago

      Well here is a half moth that I once got in a prepackaged salad I bought once

      20231215_105722

      • spaduf@slrpnk.netEnglish
        15·
        9 months ago

        Prepackaged leafy greens are the worst offenders for quality control issues by far

        • TheLowestStone@lemmy.worldEnglish
          18·
          9 months ago

          I worked in a restaurant that purchased local produce. One day a guest sent back a salad because it had a butterfly in it. That bastard had submerged in water for 30 minutes, rinsed and run 3 through a salad spinner three times, then refrigerated for about 2 hours. Yet there it was, covered in dressing and still fucking alive.

          Greens are kind of a mine field. Bugs love them and lots of them are specifically designed to hide and live within them. Let’s not even get into e. Coli.

        • BigDiction@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          9 months ago

          Sensitive to moisture, temperature, crushing, short shelf life, can’t really pasteurize, and most commonly eaten raw. Bugs can be gross but the most potent threat is bacteria!

  • freamon@endlesstalk.orgEnglish
    491·
    9 months ago

    Coffee filtered through a dead cockroach is about to become the new ‘Kopi luwak’ (coffee from animal poop).

    It’s too disgusting now, but soon it’ll be both too disgusting and too expensive.

      • ohitsbreadley@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        9·
        9 months ago

        What the fuck did I just read.

        If I had an ounce of skill as an artist I’d draw the image evoked by your 13 words.

        Tiny milking machines hooked up to billions of restrained cockroaches, extracting their milky secretions.

        God damnit

          • catbum@lemmy.worldEnglish
            71·
            9 months ago

            Pardon my language, but holy balls. I knew AI was powerful and self-driving cars and five-second essays and convincing deep fakes and yada yada, but this … This is shaking me to my core. The refinement in composition, the surrealist allure, the subtle variations of cockroach positioning …

            Gotdarn it’s too good.

            • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
              6·
              9 months ago

              The steaming roach in the forefront producing literal roach milk is definitely my favorite part

        • livus@kbin.social
          4·
          9 months ago

          I’m kind of glad you’re not an artist tbh. To get the pure milk, scientists had to sort of stick a filter right into their abdomens (it’s a kind of cockroach that gives birth to live young).

          Realistically if anyone ever harvests it en masse they will probably just kill the mothers and include the entire abdomen not just the milk secretions.

          • ohitsbreadley@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            Are you glad because I’m not very inventive, or because my description demonstrates I’m disturbed?

            And I have so many additional questions.

            1. Do they feed this secretion to the live young?
            2. If yes, wouldn’t that technically make them mammals?
            3. Is the milk harvested before or after live birth?
            4. If before, where is egg/larva sack, anatomically?
            5. If in abdomen, how separate are these organs - in other words, are we talking like milk sack, reproductive sack - stick the needle filter too far one way and you’ve missed the milk and got larvae - or is it like a liquefied mess in there, and that’s why they need the filter?

            I can go on, but man this is weird…

            • livus@kbin.social
              3·
              9 months ago

              I’m glad because I have a visual memory.

              1. No they feed them before birth. The embryos start with a small yolk but soon have well developed mouths and after the yolk is gone they lie in there drinking milk from the sac walls.

              2. It technically makes them viviparous (continuing to give nutrients to live embryo in real time as opposed to an egg with a yolk)

              3. I have not been able to find details but as far as I can see the filter is a “larva substitute” so presumably it gets inserted before birth.

              4. Brood sack (like a placenta) is in abdomen and the milk is secreted into it.

              5. I’d say it is a delicate operation but it’s not a liquefied mess, it’s a bunch of baby insects sucking the walls.

              Photo of one giving birth

              Scientific paper about the milk that gives the above details.

      • Alexstarfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        Is there a poster that’s the exact opposite of the one Fox Mulder has? “I do not want to believe.”

  • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    9 months ago

    Honestly there’s probably ground up roaches and other bugs in the coffee anyway, no one complains about that.

    But as soon as I jokingly put a cockroach in the coffee maker, all of a sudden it’s a big deal 🙄

    • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
      181·
      9 months ago

      Maybe the keyword there is “jokingly”? Too many people these days can’t take a joke.

      Have you tried straight-up putting one in authentically - maybe they’d like it then? :-P

      Pro-Tip: how about you don’t try that? :-D

  • UnculturedSwine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    9 months ago

    I lived with a buddy of mine who owned one of the first generation Keurig machines. We had problems with roaches cropping up here and there and we tried everything to get rid of them from diatomaceous earth to calling an exterminator but they always came back and we had no idea where they were coming from. We had assumed at some point that it was probably from an adjacent town home so we just dealt with them as they came and I didn’t think much of them after that. Fast forward a year or so and I’ve moved out of the place. I get talking with my buddy about the old roach problem and he tells me that he found out where they were nesting when his Keurig machine stopped working and he attempted to open it up and they came pouring out of the machine. My buddy grabbed some roach spray we had stocked up on and drenched the machine in it to kill as many of the damn things as he could. He ended up throwing that machine away. I’m glad I switched to French press and moka pots forever ago.

  • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    27·
    9 months ago

    Voyager screencap note: can tap the three dots, share as image, add the parent comment, and get a nice clean shot. Helpful if there are lots of replies you want to hide in between.

  • VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    9 months ago

    When I was at school in sixth form there was a coffee vending machine in the rec room (basically only had a few chairs and a sofa plus the coffee vending machine and a microwave) an acquaintance (I hated the guy personally )of mine went and got a coffee from it and found a dead fly at the bottom of the cup. Put me off the vending machine completely and now I’m more cautious when using any machine.

  • omnomed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    9 months ago

    I agree that roach blend coffee is also not my thing like most people here… However, I want you to search “thai roach food” and contemplate your life till now.

    Beware of the images tab.