Maybe they were test marketing for a new “fast food” chain…“Roach deLite”?
Darwin rules.
The most recent article I see in Google News still says the cause is uncertain.
I don’t know about that. He did something where the prevailing wisdom is that it’s gross, but safe. People eat bugs all the time as part of their regular diet in other cultures.
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It’s been a month, and I cannot find the cause of death of this guy. Anybody else have any luck?
I emailed a local reporter who wrote the story, asking if there was a cause of death known yet, and he responded:
I’ve been wondering (OK, I only wondered for as long as it held my attention, but I *did *wonder.)
Still, would be interesting to know.
Thanks for posting the humor, Malthus. Yup, that show needs an update with Bigfoot and BugEater.
I find all eating contests distasteful, but a roach eating contest? Horrible.
As a side note, I’ve mentioned David G. Gordon’s Eat a Bug Cookbook on this Board many times before. It’s wonderful and hilarious, but I think he errs at one point. He suggests eating centipedes and millipedes, provided you remove the poison legs. But not all such beasties have all their poison concentrated in a couple of legs, I’ve learned, and eating these is bnot a good idea. Possibly there are similarly inedible roaches, besides the edible ones. Although it still seems most likely an allergic reaction.
All of you have got it wrong!!!
Think…just think!
Who benefited from this whole event?
The cockroaches. Why? Because now there will be no more of these cockroach eating contests in that area and others who will hear about it.
It was all an ealaborate plan by the cockroaches to smuggle in one of their poisonous cousins from outside the breeding area. one who was willing to martyr himself for the cause especially in the hope of getting 72 virgins in cockroach paradise.
I can imagine the rest of the cockroaches in the breeding area now laughing their asses off…
Archy of the New York Evening Sun will be relieved.
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Thanks for updating us. I don’t guess there is any good ways to die, but that seems like a really stupid one…
Not to mention really, really gross. 
So who got the python?
yer mom.
eating contests should require participants to have a Heimlich buddy with them during and after the contest.
At least he died [del]doing[/del] eating what he loved.
Competitive eating is the sport of [del]kings[/del] Bubbas.