Allie Ward
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People eat bugs.
Arguably, we should be eating more bugs, fewer mammals, fewer animals.
We have a whole entomophagy anthropology episode all about it.
And you may find yourself, after listening, ordering some cricket flour.
Just so you know, I had two wedding cakes and one had cricket flour in it, courtesy of the wonderful Lepidopterology butterfly guest, Phil Torres, and his wonderful chef wife, Celia Torres.
who I also talked about in the porcupine episode.
But if you have a shellfish allergy, be careful with eating ground-up cockroaches or bugs.
So let's say, like me, you'd want to dip a pastry into just a smidge, a few milliliters of carefully harvested cockroach milk.
Well, first, you have to email a bunch of researchers and you have to beg them to spare some, which is nearly impossible.
And how is the milk obtained?
When you're milking a cockroach, it doesn't have little nipples on the outside.
Who says it doesn't have little nipples?
That sounds pretty nipply to me.
I know right now you are thinking, Allie, you have done the unimaginable.
You have obtained a few precious milliliters of cockroach milk, which only a handful of people on earth have ever held in their hands.
Yes, I did.
And it was worth making a donation to Josh's lab.
Hey, a heroic researcher named Gabrielle Lefebvre to do this milking.
And I haven't fully crunched the numbers, but I suspect that this cockroach substance might be worth its actual weight in gold.
But the day before the Tonight Show taping, this May...