Allie Ward

Audrey Hudak.

Julia loves fun facts.

Clouds, bugs, and shrooms.

Leo Shang.

Coforius Classroom.

And Madeline Fox wanted to know, clouds, bugs, and shrooms.

What do they taste like?

I want one in my mouth.

Julia loves fun facts.

Says, could we eat them like people eat crickets?

Do people eat them in different parts of the world?

Could we eat them if we farmed them?

And sure, plenty of people eat roaches, sometimes probably without telling anyone, and sometimes in broad daylight in cultures where it's perfectly normal, like China or Australia, Mexico.

Deep fried seems to be the way to go.

And considering that in my country, in the sprawl of America, we eat deep fried Pepsi, which seems impossible from a physics perspective.

But one BBC article titled How Cockroaches Could Save Lives praised our new buddy's exoskeletons for perhaps holding the key to antibiotic resistant infections and also noted that cockroach tea was used in the Americas as a tetanus remedy.

And cockroach cream and syrup is administered in some Chinese hospitals for burns and stomach issues, even heart problems.

So medicinal cockroaches also found in my home, to my own surprise.

So your pod mother, Jarrett, my spouse, has a black belt in jujitsu and

And I brag about that a lot.