{"id":7894,"date":"2018-08-29T18:15:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T01:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=7894"},"modified":"2021-03-19T08:36:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T15:36:45","slug":"101-things-cockroaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/101-things-cockroaches\/","title":{"rendered":"101 Things To Do with Cockroaches"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am thinking of a filthy, disgusting creature that wasn\u2019t invited into your home and just won\u2019t go away.\u00a0 No, this is not a lawyer joke nor am I thinking about your uncle.\u00a0 Because of the types of places I have gone, particularly third world destinations, war torn countries and disaster sites, I have come to expect cockroaches to be one of my traveling companions or at least my welcoming party. But at least let me begin with some good news. There are no cockroaches in Antarctica<\/a>. If I come up with anything else I will let you know.<\/p>\n

Since this web site focuses on travel and food I try to deal with topics that include both.\u00a0 \u201cLa cucaracha\u201d is found just about everywhere and there are people who actually like to eat them.\u00a0 But I am getting ahead of myself. Wait, are you actually singing that song?\u00a0 Did you know the Spanish folk song, “La Cucaracha,” is about a cockroach unable to walk because he has lost one of his six legs?<\/p>\n

\"cockroach\"<\/p>\n

Let me tell you what this chapter is not about.\u00a0 It is not about all<\/u> the strange things people eat.\u00a0 There are so many they can\u2019t possibly be listed.\u00a0 It is also not about the grossest things people eat.\u00a0 Some things eaten around the world are really not worth mentioning and can be very disgusting, even depraved, so I won\u2019t be mentioning them even though I have seen some of them.<\/p>\n

Some people have eaten unusual items to win a wager like the man who ate his automobile by grinding it up and putting it in his mash potatoes.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t there an easier way to make money than proving you can eat your car?\u00a0 And the list is actually long for that type of culinary challenge.\u00a0 One man ate a coffin, another a Cessna airplane, one consumed thousands of light bulbs and one person ate his bedroom (yes, even the doorknobs and blinds, drywall and carpet).\u00a0 Next time he tells his mom he is hungry she will listen.<\/p>\n

But this is the first of several stories about odd and often funny moments in our personal travels that have to do with food.\u00a0 No doubt many of you have stories to tell since you are travelers and food in one culture is not always what is thought of as food in another.<\/p>\n

\"flying<\/p>\n

The Merriam Webster dictionary defines food in a lengthy and technical fashion including words like \u201ccarbohydrate, and fat used in the body of an organism to sustain growth, repair, and vital processes.\u201d I won\u2019t bore you with the rest.\u00a0 But in my 70 plus years of life and travel I have come to a simpler definition.\u00a0 Food = anything.\u00a0 At this time I cannot think of much that man has not eaten on this planet. If possible, someone would even try to eat that.<\/p>\n

When I grew up it never entered my mind that one day TV programs would exist that were built around people eating tarantulas, rats, scorpions and hissing cockroaches.\u00a0 Things are definitely less shocking today. I was thinking about what is the most important thing to carry with you when traveling in the impoverished regions of the world.\u00a0 The answer is a sense of humor.\u00a0 I was once laying on a wooden board on the ground tying to fall asleep in a remote region of the Philippines<\/a> with insects crawling on me. \u00a0So, what was funny about that?\u00a0\u00a0 My friend was sleeping in a wheelbarrow.\u00a0 Now, that I think about it, I may have been jealous.<\/p>\n

There are 4,000 species of cockroaches in the world. They are one of the few things that survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb. \u00a0Here are some random, interesting facts about this uninvited house guest:<\/p>\n

A cockroach can live for a week without its head. \u00a0So, if you manage to accomplish that be sure to pull one of its legs off as well.\u00a0 At least it will only run in circles. It can even survive being submerged under water for half an hour. Roaches can run up to three miles in an hour, even a one-day old baby the size of a dust speck.\u00a0 They are born on the run and spend their lives that way. The American cockroach has shown a marked attraction to alcoholic beverages, especially beer. This is sounding more like that uncle all the time. The world’s largest roach (which lives in South America) is six inches long with a one-foot wingspan. I don\u2019t know about you but the most troubling word in that description is the word, \u201cwingspan.\u201d\u00a0 Yes, some cockroaches fly and can fly about the length of a tennis court.<\/p>\n

They make a loud whirring noise just before they land on your neck. From personal experience I can describe that sound in more detail if you like.\u00a0 They can also live without food for a month but only a week without water so you usually find them around wet areas. Prisoners in WW2 ate them to get some protein. While living in Asia, we kept all food items in the refrigerator, nothing on our shelves, or roaches would get into them.<\/p>\n

The World Health Organization (WHO) adds some additional encouraging news. They report that cockroaches are carriers of salmonella, typhoid, dysentery, cholera and many more diseases and that they will eat book bindings, glossy paper, shoe linings, hair, and even the nails of sleeping babies and sick people. Having said that it would be hard to imagine anyone eating them wouldn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

We had a cat in the Philippines that used to eat cockroaches where we lived. So, for all you cat haters, they do have a purpose.\u00a0 But there was one drawback.\u00a0 In the middle of the night when I was in the deepest sleep I would be awakened by this gentle purring sound in my face and the smell of horrible cockroach breath.\u00a0 I guess our cat was so happy eating the disease-ridden varmints all day that she just wanted to share her joy with us. \u00a0I have never smelled a cockroach in America, but in Asia we had that strong, unmistakable odor in our cabinets, rooms and just about everywhere.\u00a0 And on our cat.<\/p>\n

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ARTWORK BY RAOUL PASCUAL<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A friend of mine, was drinking milk in a restaurant one day and said he thought the milk was staring to turn, but he finished it anyway and at the bottom of the glass was a giant cockroach. When he told me what had happened, I forgot to ask if the roach was still alive.<\/p>\n

There is a woman in China that has 100,000 cockroaches in her home and she breeds them and calls them her children. \u00a0The one thing I can\u2019t figure out with that story is how does she keep the number to only 100,000?<\/p>\n

Asian cockroaches are much larger than the ones you see in America.\u00a0 We used to have a cockroach of the week contest for our five children to at least make a fun time of sharing our space with the critters.\u00a0 One night one of our young children woke up crying and said a cockroach bit her.\u00a0 We had not been in the country very long and we told her not to worry because they don\u2019t bite.\u00a0 The next morning, she had a large red swollen area on her leg with a white spot in the middle.\u00a0 We asked a missionary friend if cockroaches bite and she said, \u201cOh, yes, and they make a swollen lump with a white spot in the middle.\u201d\u00a0 We quickly apologized to our children and it was mosquito nets all around after that.\u00a0 I bet you didn\u2019t know they bite, or fly.<\/p>\n

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When the kids got older we stopped using the nets, just too much trouble.\u00a0 Cockroaches would get in our hair at night and many times one would crawl across my face and startle me awake at night.\u00a0 After several years we learned to just pick them out of our hair at night, crunch them in our hands and toss them on the floor and go back to sleep.\u00a0 As missionaries we worked with the poor and we lived near the poorer clusters of the people, so we had to deal with these dirty little buggers. But when we saw what cockroaches fed on and how they lived the one thing we never considered was eating them. I mean how would you prepare them? Would you boil them and make soup stock?\u00a0 I bet that would smell just delightful.<\/p>\n

\u201cA research team based at the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine in India believes that the “milk” from the Pacific beetle cockroach<\/a> \u2013 the protein-rich crystals that the insects lactate to feed their young \u2013 could make for the next great superfood<\/a>. Now, maybe you’ll think twice before squashing that pesky cockroach in your apartment.\u201d<\/span> (CBS News)<\/blockquote>\n

No, let\u2019s be clear, I will not think twice before squashing the pests and the only way I will milk one is with the bottom of my shoe. That brings me to the story I want to tell.\u00a0 You needed some background information to appreciate it.<\/p>\n

One day, a friend who had just returned from Cambodia brought me something as a gift. It was a menu from a restaurant where he had eaten.\u00a0 On the menu, one of the main entrees, was \u201cflying cockroaches.\u201d\u00a0 So, this restaurant must have gotten bored with their contest of the week and starting eating them and it became so requested it earned a place on the menu.<\/p>\n

A week later after getting that menu my wife and visited our youngest daughter who had used her school break to work at a Vietnamese refugee camp.\u00a0 The camp was about 4 hours north of the city of Manila where we lived. It housed about 18,000 Amerasians. These were the \u201cleftovers\u201d from the Vietnam war.\u00a0 American servicemen had fathered children and returned to the USA after their assignments leaving children with no fathers but more importantly, no country.\u00a0 They became a rejected people in Vietnam<\/a>, viewed as a mixed-breed.\u00a0 Remember, we lost that war and left the country.\u00a0 As one writer has written \u201cMany \u2018children of the dust\u2019 fathered by Americans were abandoned, taunted, abused, and left unschooled after the last of the U.S. military departed after the fall of Saigon.\u201d \u00a0The presence in the Philippines of several large American military bases also produced and abandoned over 50,000 Amerasian children when the bases pulled out.<\/p>\n

\"Vietnamese<\/p>\n

A US government congressional act would later allow 23,000 Amerasians and 65,000 family members to settle in the U.S.<\/p>\n

It was an Amerasian resettlement camp where our youngest high school daughter worked that summer. So, what does that have to do with cockroaches?\u00a0 I\u2019m coming to that. We arrived at the camp for our allowed visit.\u00a0 They were careful not to make the Amerasians a tourist site or photo op.\u00a0 It was a difficult place to visit.\u00a0\u00a0 While there, we met the people our daughter stayed with and the people she worked with.\u00a0 One of those was a Vietnamese cook who prepared food for an American family that helped direct the camp operations.<\/p>\n

At one point I was alone with the Vietnamese cook and my curiosity had gotten the better of me and I just had to ask. The memories of that menu with flying cockroaches was still fresh in my mind. I told him about the menu and I asked if he liked to eat cockroaches.\u00a0 He did and so I asked how he liked to prepare them.\u00a0\u00a0 He described carefully slicing them up and frying them in brown sugar.\u00a0 I then asked if he liked them any other way.\u00a0 He revealed he like to eat them alive and when I asked him to expand that answer he described in detail how he picked off the wings and then tossed them in his mouth like you and I would eat peanuts.\u00a0 He seemed disappointed the American family didn\u2019t share the same interest in what he liked to eat.<\/p>\n

\"sore<\/p>\n

I had one more question for him.\u00a0 \u201cIs there anything the American family eats that when you watch them eat it, it almost makes you sick to your stomach.\u00a0 At that point he looked around to make sure no one was watching and said in a quieter voice,\u00a0 \u201cYes, there is one thing.\u00a0 You know those potatoes that they mash up?\u201d\u00a0 All I could say at that point was,\u00a0 \u201cYes, I know the exact thing you are talking about.\u201d He eats live cockroaches and mashed potatoes makes him want to puke!\u00a0 The guy reminded me of Olle.\u00a0 He was a missionary from the Faroe Islands who, like us was working in the Philippines.\u00a0 We were at his house one day when he kindly offered us some of his personal stock of whale blubber.\u00a0 The Faroes are somewhere near Iceland<\/a> and they mostly eat stuff that comes from the sea. I could have said fish but whale blubber is not fish, it is stuff, and ugly looking stuff at that.\u00a0 Olle actually brought that stuff in his check ins when he traveled back and forth to the Philippines. I don\u2019t know why Customs didn\u2019t shoot him when they inspected his bags.\u00a0 When we refused to eat his private whale blubber stock he tried to entice us by saying it was three years old, really seasoned.\u00a0 That explained the thick green ick growing on the yuck.\u00a0 I finally said, \u201cOlle, how do you eat that stuff?\u201d\u00a0 He said, \u201cWell, you eat peanut butter!\u201d\u00a0 I guess he saw the strange look on our faces so he continued,\u00a0 \u201cAnd you know what it looks like?\u201d\u00a0 I think Olle would have gotten along well with the Vietnamese cook as long as they didn\u2019t mix peanut butter in with mashed potatoes.<\/p>\n

I am reminded of one college frat person trying to be \u201cmacho\u201d who ate a cockroach on a dare and then shortly afterwards his thoughts began to torment him and he quickly grabbed a plastic trash can in his room and emptied the contents of his stomach into it.\u00a0 He said afterwards, \u201cI didn’t think I had lost it too bad, then as I looked in the can I noticed that one of my socks was at the bottom!\u201d<\/p>\n

I did say I would give you 101 things you can do with cockroaches so here they are:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Eat them.<\/li>\n
  2. Milk them.<\/li>\n
  3. Squash them.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Repeat number three 98 more times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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