I'm sorry for bringing this up after lunch, but did you hear about the 32-year-old Florida man who died after winning a roach-eating contest?
It's weird. Last night I saw some AP images from the actual contest - with no word that he had walked out of the venue and died.
This morning I look at another post and see he collapsed and died just minutes later.
That's no way to go.
Nobody seems to know what happened to him. They await autopsy reports.
You may be thinking, "Well, he ate dozens of roaches."
This is perfectly acceptable in many parts of the world, though.
The man was playing along to win a python, the AP reported.
No other contestants became ill, and the AP quotes an entomologist at University of California as saying roaches are not unsafe to eat unless they become contaminated with bacteria or other pathogens.
He had never heard of someone dying after eating roaches and said they are not toxic.
Comments (12)
Add commentYuck!!!!
I am cringing right now. He did this to win a python? I am sorry that he died, but Seriously for a python!!!
Hmm
So does this mean the python now goes to the runner-up?
RAID !!!!!!
Any word if he was found on his back, with his feet and hands in the air? Seriously, I think this qualifies him as a contestant for the 2012 Darwin award.
Poor guy...
...he should have simply eaten the foods posted by Terri Power.
I'd much rather pass away after consuming mass quantities of bacon than eating even one roach. Unless, of course, it was a bacon flavored roach.
live vs dead?
the photo caption mentions that the bugs were alive when consumed . . . having watched a video of an eating contest before, could he have swallowed a few whole and therefore they would still be quite alive after leaving his mouth? Then I imagine then they could have either (1) crawled out of his stomach, up his esophagus, and into his lungs (2) eaten/scratched a hole in his stomach/intestines (3) crawled up into his sinuses from his throat.
This whole scenario makes me want to hurl . . .
Oh my goodness, that's a
Oh
my
goodness, that's a nightmare.
I've eaten
I've eaten chocolate covered ants and fried grasshoppers.....once and only once. I love sushi, but the fish is dead. I like my food dead before I eat it.
In addition, roaches make my skin crawl. They are creatures that feed off of moisture and filth (please, I don't need any scientists disputing my assessment ~ I'd never believe you). Eating live roaches is just disgusting.
So now I have to admit that if all of the other weird contestants did not get sick, then perhaps the winner's death was not related to the roaches. But, honey, it could not have helped.
Well
I'm guessing he forgot to wrap them in bacon and drizzle something over them.
Ugh
That's one hell of a last meal!
lets all try this
Stir Fried Cockroach
Ingredients:
4 or 5 cockroaches (recently frozen)
1 onion
1 red pepper
1 green pepper
1 tbs salt
1 tbs corn starch
4 tbs cooking oil
2 cups rice
Method:
1. Remove and discard the solid wing covering flaps and all legs of the cockroach.
2. Put the whole cockroaches into a pot of boiling oil and quickly fry for 15 seconds.
3. Heat a wok until hot. Add four spoons of oil and put all vegetables into it to stir fry for three minutes.
4. Put the half cooked cockroaches in to the wok and add salt and corn starch.
5. Serve on or with a bed of white rice
I hate rice tho.