No really, do not eat cockroaches: Thai health department

By Jintamas Saksornchai, Staff Reporter

 

Photo: Dirk Schumacher / Pixabay

 

BANGKOK — In case there’s any doubt whether the cockroaches creeping into your home are edible, health officials weighed in Wednesday with a reminder: They’re not.

 

The Bureau of Non-Communicable Diseases today played down the nutritional value of the insects’ shiny brown bodies and hairy legs in a statement warning people against consuming them – at least those that emerge from sewer pipes.

 

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Lol...tell that to the bar girls you see having a snack before she wants to kiss you later on.

4 minutes ago, Sir Dude said:

Lol...tell that to the bar girls you see having a snack before she wants to kiss you later on.

I wouldnt want to kiss a bargirl even without her having eaten a cockroach

3 minutes ago, Sir Dude said:

Lol...tell that to the bar girls you see having a snack before she wants to kiss you later on.

But, but, they look so sexy with a little brown spiky leg stuck on their bottom lip.

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1 hour ago, sanemax said:

I wouldnt want to kiss a bargirl even without her having eaten a cockroach

Not on the lips anyway 

1 hour ago, Sir Dude said:

Lol...tell that to the bar girls you see having a snack before she wants to kiss you later on.

Could put up with me bok ham noi smelling of cockroaches

      The 'cockroaches' that you may see bargirls (and many other Thais) eating are not cockroaches at all.  They are water beetles and a very popular Thai food especially in Issan.

      Don't knock them until you've tried them, they are in fact surprisingly tasty.

           https://www.pattayaunlimited.com/giant-thai-bug-delicacy/

They do not eat them alive!Its fried before consumption.I tried more then twice,but I am not fan of it.

Well that ruins my night, I was considering an evening cockroach binge.  Saved by the bell.... ????

I showed this article to the family cats and they don't believe the health officials.

They said that chasing and "playing with" any cockroaches that invade the house is great fun and eventually a crunchy snack.

Edited December 13, 20187 yr by Juan B Tong

They should put these signs on Suwarnaphoom as well, now the tourists still don't know that they are inedible...

11 hours ago, salavan said:

Not on the lips anyway 

Which lips do you mean ?

The epitome of "Thainess": eating cockroaches...

Snap crackle pop has more than one meaning at breakfast time???? 

I tried fried grasshoppers along Walking Street one night, after more than a few brewskies, and found them quite tasty. THEN I tried them again sober, and they were STILL tasty! I thought to myself, "Y'know, they're like little cows. They run around eating grass all day, that can't be bad." Same thing with rats living out in the rice fields.

As I understand it the ones the girls eat are field cockroaches and they are edible. The ones in the cities are sewer cockroaches and should not be eaten. Either way, I pass.