Today, for my birthday, my brother gave me some of those fake 'Harry Potter' edible cockroaches. I ate one. It wasn't fake. FML
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On 05/23/2009 at 11:01pm - misc - by partygirlxxx - United States (Kentucky)
the cockroach is edible --- did you die from eating it? anything that does not harm you by eating it is considered 'edible.' and therefor not an FML, just a little healthy protein, though it may not have tasted very good.
I do believe the correct term is 'cockroach cluster'. I've eaten roast cockroach cakes before, and they weren't so bad. Raw? Projectile vomiting sounds like a good option.
#4 - On 05/24/2009 at 4:17am by Headcase
What did it taste like? I'd imagine it'd be awful, because they smell terrible when you crush them.
#7 - On 05/24/2009 at 4:19am by 8trickster8
ew.
I'm sure cockroaches are pretty nutritious though.
He was just being sweet, caring about your health.
aw.
#8 - On 05/24/2009 at 4:19am by emer_helena
How can you not tell that the cockroach was real ? even if it was alive or dead ?
this FML goes both ways .
FYL cause you ate a cockroach & cause your brother is apparently an ass , & YDI for not knowing what a real cockroach looks like .
Greatest question ever. Shortly followed by "Hey check if he dropped any good loot" :D
#108 - On 02/03/2010 at 3:38am by winterharte
hahah you ate a real cockroach on ur birthday!! uggh what an ass!!
i say for his b-day you bake a pie, and inside the pie you add dog crap :]
that bitch deserves it! after what he did to you
To the people saying YDI: Yeah, i agree the OP should know a real cockroach from a fake. But, then again, not all people have to go around worrying that someone is gonna set them up to eat real bugs, hence the OP's first thought not being, "Oh shit, this is real!" but instead thinking it was just a good fake.
Anyway, that sucks, but at least you got some nutrition!
#18 - On 05/24/2009 at 5:06am by lyssalicious
#18 - You said my words exactly.
Not everybody expects to be given bugs for their birthday.
Plus, Harry Potter's coming back into style again with the next movie and all. I wouldn't be too shocked if there's more Harry Potter themed FML soon.
The jelly bean pranks were awful enough.
#20 - On 05/24/2009 at 5:09am by redbluegreen
first happy birthday. second next time make sure its not real im pretty sure my 3 year old brother could tell the diffrence lol
D:
you couldn't even smell the difference?
surely it would smell like a nice treat and not dead vermin...
could the eggs be inside you?
That's just disgusting! YDI for even eating anything that resembles a roach! Yuk!
#26 - On 05/24/2009 at 6:05am by tWitt3rBuG
Your a dumb ass for not being able to taste the difference!
#28 - On 05/24/2009 at 6:13am by sun_worshiper
Harry Potter is awesome! This sounds like something I might do for fun, just eating real cockroaches because there are sweets alike those.
I'm pretty sure there's no such thing as a "Harry Potter Edible Cockroach". Biggest YDI ever.
#33 - On 05/24/2009 at 7:49am by fnool
if that really happened, that's absolutely foul. where did he find these roaches? were they full of raid?
#35 - On 05/24/2009 at 8:26am by fretforyerlatte
http://maisonceleste.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/cockroach-clusters-2.jpg
They look COMPLETELY different.
#36 - On 05/24/2009 at 8:36am by Pepperolls
thanks 36 i was wondering. wow yeah they don't look real at ALL.
if this really happened Y TOTALLY DI
#37 - On 05/24/2009 at 8:38am by fretforyerlatte
i want cockroach clusters!
like ones that you would purchase on the hogwarts express.
not ones found in the ground.
#38 - On 05/24/2009 at 8:50am by bridgetheartsyou
I'm pretty sure Harry Potter doesn't make fake cockroaches. They'd be MUCH more likely to make cockroach flavored jelly beans. YDI for believing the jerk who I can only assume you grew up with.
#40 - On 05/24/2009 at 9:28am by silvermoonstar3
If he said Harry Potter I would've eaten it! I'm that much of a geek.
#42 - On 05/24/2009 at 9:40am by theflamezbegin
Lol your brother gave you cockroaches as a present! Traaaaaaaaaaaamp
#44 - On 05/24/2009 at 9:51am by fuckzombies
you people are so fucking dumb. just because your not allowed to call fake doesnt mean these stories actually real dumb shits. nobody would ever mistake a real cockroach for a candy cockroach. fucking idiots
#45 - On 05/24/2009 at 9:58am by taylorchasewhite
To #33:
OF COURSE THERE IS! They make all kind of wacko, quick-selling stuff these days! Who the hell WOULDN'T buy those things. I once bought Harry Potter Gummy Worms that looked like real worms, Harry Potter Jelly Beans that were flavors consisting of barf, potion, dragon saliva, etc. and more!
#47 - On 05/24/2009 at 10:53am by happygoluckyhh
WHAT THE FUCK.
I wouldn't have eaten it either way, how can you eat something that looks so fucking repulsive?
#50 - On 05/24/2009 at 11:40am by iEuphorical
Considering a Cockroach Cluster is about 2.5 inches and an actual cockroach is anything from about 1 to 1.6 inches, YDI.
Also, for not spotting the antennae.
Sad times. :(
#52 - On 05/24/2009 at 12:07pm by OldCowsScareMax
And the Darwin award goes to...
Please.
NO ONE can't tell the difference between a real cockroach and a candy piece.
I'll have to remember this, if I never need to get revenge or break up with a bitch I'll whip up some chocolate dipped cockroaches and leave them at their doorstep.
#55 - On 05/24/2009 at 1:15pm by necromancerlord
ydi because you can't tell the difference between cockroaches and chocolate.
#56 - On 05/24/2009 at 1:20pm by pencilmustache
Yeah, because when I receive something unwrapped that looks like a cockroach, smells like a cockroach, and feels like a cockroach, my first reaction is to take a bite out of it.
YDI for being incapable of telling the difference between a cockroach shaped piece of chocolate and an actual cockroach.
Your brother deserves a medal.
You didn't notice that it wasn't even the same color as the candy? That it was hard instead of gummy to the touch? that the antennae were way to small to be reproduce that accurately in a cheap candy factory? same with the legs?
Arnt this Harry Potter cockroaches gummy ones? -f you didnt know the differance between a gummy roach and a dead REAL roach than you are the biggest idiot in the world and also a oxymoron
that's brothers for ya
but at least you got your protein! lol
#72 - On 05/24/2009 at 7:04pm by Luna_LoveIsGood
wow I just looked it up, and the harry potter cock roaches look NOTHING like real ones, they're casrtoonish and silly looking. I don't know how you couldn't tell the difference between candy and a dead bug. Where did he get dead cock roaches anyway? And didn't you notice that they weren't in a bag?
#73 - On 05/24/2009 at 7:39pm by charginasaur
ick! i don't even think the fake ones look good...I wonder if the brother collected a bunch of dead roaches and gave them as a gift, or if the OP found a dead roach laying on the ground and thought it was candy.
#74 - On 05/24/2009 at 7:42pm by dyingstart
Wtf. How stupid are you? Unless he wrapped the roaches in the plastic they come in, how the fuck could you be fooled by this?
Lol..haha that's epic.
Yet,how could you NOT know it was real?
:P
#77 - On 05/24/2009 at 10:34pm by DangerousBabee
I don't remember edible cockroaches in Harry Potter. I do remember frogs, though.... I'll just give you the benefit of the doubt.
sucks, I would've beat the shit out of my brother for that.
On the bright side, cockroaches are actually very nutritious and have the potential to be a widespread food source with more vitamins and less resource needs than beef. You could just claim to be ahead of the curve and starting a new trend!
#78 - On 05/24/2009 at 11:44pm by newbieattech
That's really gross. I prolly would have puked all over him.
#79 - On 05/25/2009 at 12:13am by Jessmess12
To everyone saying that OP should have known the difference, maybe they had never had the cockroach clusters before and had never seen them and therefore assumed that they looked like actual cockroaches. Before you people ever saw one, what would you expect something called "cockroach clusters" to look like? Anyone who says OP deserved this is an ignorant prick
i agree with someone way up there haha
FYL for your brother being and asshole and giving it to you on your birthday
YDI for falling for it.
it really isn't that hard why would you eat a fake cockroach?
GR0000SSSSSSS !
#84 - On 05/25/2009 at 2:30am by randOmlyahmazing
Cockroack cluster?!
Ha. I'd've gone for Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. :]
PWNED.
...besides, I thought those things were like really really small.
o.o They were in the movie, anyway.
#86 - On 05/25/2009 at 1:49pm by manoverboard
Wow... YDI. It's not hard to tell a candy cockroach from a real one. For example, the candy one is made of candy, and the real one is a dead fucking bug.
#87 - On 05/25/2009 at 3:54pm by missus_butter
Yeah, right. That's so FAKE. I've seen cockroach clusters, and they don't look enough like cockroaches tht you couldn't tell the difference.
cockroach win!
lol how is that actually possible though? how could a real cockroach get into the package in the first place?
#100 - On 06/17/2009 at 11:03pm by hockeyfan_30
I read those books... I remember some really weird candies but not cockroach ones XD
#110 - On 02/16/2010 at 9:57pm by ZombieKitteh
