Male Cockroaches
Is it true that all cockroaches are male? If so, is that why I can’t kill them in my microwave oven?
———- from John Janssen of Dallas, TX
If you want cockroaches that are really crisp and tasty, as well as dead, then you need to use a combination microwave and convection oven. Don’t bother using large doses of radioactivity, because cockroaches are immune to that sort of thing, though there are some cockroach fanciers who think a large dose of alpha rays does improve taste, imparting a ‘nutty’ flavor. There’s a female a capella group called ‘The Roaches’, but they aren’t true roaches, just women with a chip on their shoulder and a gripe against Louden Wainwright, Jr.
If you want cockroaches that are really crisp and tasty, as well as dead, then you need to use a combination microwave and convection oven. Don’t bother using large doses of radioactivity, because cockroaches are immune to that sort of thing, though there are some cockroach fanciers who think a large dose of alpha rays does improve taste, imparting a ‘nutty’ flavor. There’s a female a capella group called ‘The Roaches’, but they aren’t true roaches, just women with a chip on their shoulder and a gripe against Louden Wainwright, Jr.