If given the choice between gorging on live roaches and death, a lot of people might want to choose death. This poor guy apparently had trouble choosing which option to settle on.
Scooped! See what I get for channel surfing before posting?
ETA:
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Technically, wouldn’t insects be meat themselves?
I know lots of people who ate their roaches after smoking.
I don’t see how that counts as winning.
Why am I not surprised that the link is from my local paper?
Ahh…South Florida, how I love you.
-D/a
Ok, for once I’m actually amused by the google ad:
“55/YO Mum Looks 35 Mum Reveals Shocking Trick for Erasing Wrinkles!”
ZOMG. It’s ROACHES! No wonder they call it shocking…
<Joshua>The only winning move is not to play.</Joshua>
Oh, I am so not watching that video.
So what did he die of? Roaches aren’t poisonous.
I think he died of shame.
So did the runner up get the snake?
Mmm, roach vomit.
Roach poison?
Unlike roaches, he checked out.
That’s what gets me. There were other contestants. People willing to chow down on live cockroaches without a guaranteed prize. Coming in second at a roach eating contest?
I think we’re all the losers in this story. I thought I had an iron stomach - I pretty much never feed ill after just reading something - but apparently live roach eating contests will do it.
Entomologists hate her.
I pity the poor forensic pathologist assigned to do the autopsy on the roach-eating victim. Blurggh.*
*one consolation - you’re almost guaranteed to get a publication out of it. “Fatal Roach Consumption - A Case Report and Review Of The Literature”.
Geez, if ever there was an appropriate time to be a sympathy puker.
After posting I wondered if there actually was such a publication in the forensic pathology literature. A PubMed search didn’t turn up any, but here’s one suggesting that the runners-up in the roach-eating contest may have something to worry about:
They’re still checking. Some people are allergic to roaches, so that’s a possibility.
These were apparently “clean living” roaches, raised in captivity as animal feed. They’d better not have diseases or poisonous substances in them.
Eating bugs isn’t intrinsically bad. Ouir ancestors did in the not terribly distant past (I don’t meam the Neolithic – I’m talking classical Greece and Rome, or even more recent). There are bug-eating advocates among us now. Although they don’t generally push roaches – they have a bad rep, which this incident won’t help.