When I was in Thailand a couple of months back I had the opportunity to consume some protein-laden food. In both Thailand and Cambodia there are many street vendors which sell food such as beetles, roaches, spiders, worms, and so on. Here you see my hand holding a few roasted six-legged creatures which I am about to consume in Bangkok.
In Texas, everything is a little bit bigger. If you look at our rats, they are as big as cats in the midwest; our cockroaches are around the size of mice in the west coast. Some of them fly. I have travelled all around the world, and I have seen cockroaches in every country, but Texas definitely has the biggest. The second-biggest are in northern Mexico, just south of the Texas border. I have used products such as roach bombs, but they don't work on Texas cockroaches who walk away not even fazed (just insulted) by the nuclear bombardment they were supposed to receive.
Since I got back, I have noticed number of cockroaches in my apartment. I store very close to no food in apartment, so I can only assume they have consumed the crumbs of my white trash neighbors, and come into my apartment on suicide mission. I look at it from a food-chain point of view; the cockroaches consume crumbs which my neighbors left out (or, perhaps more precisely, they consume smaller insects which consumed crumbs or even smaller insects, etc, ad infinitum… or something), and are eaten by animals which I eat. If you think about it, the cockroach is actually a pretty economical animal, admirable for his frugality.
I ate six-legged critters in Thailand, so I want to figure out how to eat Texas cockroaches also. I believe that by eating noodles in conjunction with Texas cockroaches, that I will have balanced diet. The roaches just walk into my door carrying plenty of nutrients from my neighbors, for free. Killing Texas cockroaches is a bit of a challenge. I put roach spray on them, and it just agitates them a bit. Plus, if I roasted them, it wouldn't kill the chemicals, only the biological excess. Smashing them is the only way to kill them, but then you can't eat them. So I need to figure out how to collect and kill the roaches frugally, so I can eat them.
Anybody have any good recipes?
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You and Trent from The Simple Dollar should do a buddy blog 'a la Tango and Cash or Laurel and Hardy.
He always has family-friendly, safe posts that always use the word "Deeply" and talk of a happy children-filled future, while your posts are about being frugal to travel the world and sleep with women. Both frugal, but to a VERY different goal. You two could be a comedy team...or play good cop, bad cop.
Keep up the good work, Frugal Bachelor, your voice is needed on the internet.
You could catch them in Havaheart traps and drop them into boiling water. Or you could just eat beans which are pretty cheap and don't have the health risks associated with eating scavengers. You should also look into catching stray animals like pigeons or your neighbor's cat. You could also pretend to be homeless in restaurants.
Try sticky tape on the floors where they walk - or even splurge for the ones that are suppose to catch mice "humanely" in the sticky gum-like stuff. They wouldn't be going anywhere then!
stick 'em live into a wok. that'll kill 'em quick without chemicals.
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