WE'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER CAN OF RAID

"We have 60 small rooms. There are 20 million cockroaches in each room. In total there are 1 billion cockroaches," farm manager Yin Diansong tells me.

(Thanks to Rick Day)

Comments

[cfjk]

And just think how worried we all have been thinking there was going to be a shortage.

[man tom]

I am looking forward to seeing the upcoming documentary on the women of Chinese cockroach farm houses.

[Le Petomane]

If these were Japanese cockroaches, I believe we would all be in big trouble or have a huge new food source. Whatever...

[Lucky Jack]

Why I stick to hamburgers.

[Trew]

I’m not clicking on this, but math is wrong - 60 rooms with 20 million roaches in each gets only 120 million, not 1 billion.

[Rod Nunley]

I don't know that this is much of a solution. Strikes me that it's easier to get rid of tons of kitchen waste than the tons of cockroaches that'll result from eating the waste.

[Le Petomane]

Rod, It's only a matter of time until Burger King introduces the Big Bug Burger on an organic sesame seed bun with reconstituted lettuce and onion.

[Clankie]

So which motel is this again...?

[cfjk]

Tastes like chicken?

[Steverino]

If they were palmetto bugs, they would need only 30 rooms. Those suckers are BIG.

[Mad Hatter]

In Japan the saying is that for every cockroach you see, there are fifty more behind the wall, which perhaps accounts for the math discrepancy. Le Petomane did not show up yesterday so I had to kill the one I found outside by the communal recycling shed myself. But Raid is so yesterday. The elegant way is with a can of special spray that freezes the cockroach in its tracks at -85 degrees C.