Cockroach milk healthier than almond milk? Yes, in fact could be among “the most nutritious substances on earth”

You are probably talking about Willy Wonka and Chocolate factory sequel called Snowpiercer. Here is my evidence https://youtu.be/jEX52h1TvuA

Snowpiercer. Good flick.

I have nipples gac11, could you milk me?

... and would you?

Eh, there's some things that carry a stigma. Roaches are garbage dwellers, and it's hard to shake that, even if the ones used to make the "milk" are rigidly contained and fed.

People tend to think of insect foods as "free range", where someone just scoops a bunch up, even though that's far from the truth. Any of the insects used for human consumption can't be free range because they just don't stay that close together in the wild. You can't farm bugs the way you can chickens, letting them roam and taking what you need.

You have to farm them in containers, feeding them with something that's generally going to be at least as clean as chicken feed. Not necessarily because doing otherwise is gross, but because you can't risk losing your entire stock because you let a pathogen into them via bad food practices. And that's true even when you're farming the bugs as pet food of fish bait.

That being said, I'd pass on roach anything. I've smelled roaches that were being raised as pet food. No way am I putting that in my mouth. Even crickets smell better, and they tend to be funky. Strangely, mealworms smell less, but taste worse than crickets. But the smell of roaches is bad, not just strong the way crickets are. Well, bad to me at least, that's a subjective thing. Smell is usually a very big part of perceived taste, and nothing that bad smelling is going to taste good.

Yeah we do eat some disgusting things. What works on me is if you start feeding it to me before I know what it is. Then after I’m accustomed to something it takes a higher level of disgust to turn me.

Hot dogs in fact crossed that threshold. I ate them as a kid then one day questioned what they were, heard John Candy call them lips and assholes, saw a video of that pink slime in big vats, and that turned me. No more hot dogs for me. OTOH, I had a quite tasty vegan hotdog that was good at simulating the real thing using nuts.

I’ve mostly ditched dairy milk out of a combination of mild disgust coupled with better alternatives (coconut milk). I’ll do Bailley’s but pass on the milk stout beers.

Anyway, you can feed bugs and cockroach milk to your kids and maybe they grow up accustomed to it.

Sure, but my entomophobia means I'd still rather eat dirt, than knowingly ingest insects.

Agreed.

As a kid I recall stepping on one and thick white milk squirted out. Another kid said “just like a Jr. mint!” Ever since then, I have been unable to mentally separate Jr. mints from cockroaches. And to be clear, that association was not an upgrade for the roaches.. it was a mental downgrade to Jr. mints.

Not sure why that is necessarily the case. Recall how wine was made at one point: people barefeet got in a tub of grapes and smashed them by running around. Roach milk could be a matter of rounding up some 8 year old boys and giving them gummy bears or a candybar if they stomp around in a vat of roaches.