Today, I took the lid off my slow cooker to serve up a casserole that had been 12 hours in the making. A cockroach took the opportunity to dive in. My husband and I are now eating toast, while the delicious smell of casserole taunts us from the trash. FML
MsMedea tells us more.
MsMedea 26
Hi, OP here, to answer your question, the slow cooker was sitting on the bench, underneath a shelf in our kitchen. As I took the lid off, the roach came from above, literally jumping into the pot! So I definitely did not see it before I took the lid off!
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1dvs_bstd 41
Here's a cockroach trivia for you, OP. When you see a cockroach, it is most certainly not alone. Who you gonna call?! The exterminators. You should call the exterminators.
jayennachristine 23
Aren't you a tad bit concerned that there are **** roaches in your house??
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Comments (111)
yamuri 17
Roach suicide, apart from ruining the casserole, I wish all roaches would do this.
slackerjoe 22
the steam probably burnt the roach and caused it to lose its footing. Thus falling into your dinner. you should have just took out the spoon full surrounding it and ate your dinner. if it was boiling, it was hot enough to kill the germs.
Colon_Man 17
5 second rule works in reverse, too! Something falling into food instead of food falling into something.
tonedef456 8
Hey, extra protein.
LeavenSilva 27
Despite having the ability to survive a nuclear apocalypse, that poor cockroach was taken down by an unfortunate casserole incident. Seems like a waste of perfectly good nuclear survivability to me.
cbroady0529 9
Not gonna lie, if the casserole was pretty solid I would have fished it out, removed the area around it, and called it a day. If it was soupy I wouldn't have though :/
lulinator 40
I'm with you on that. Five second rule applies here.
MsMedea 26
The casserole was very saucey! My first thought was to fish it out, then we watched as the roach slipped slowly below the surface. At that point, a salvage effort was futile!
whitnayfortooh 29
it's just a bug. if they were swarming in it I'd understand but it was just one. I'd eat it anyway.
EcoAirWarrior 7
I wonder if the cockroach survived, possible considering they're insects that outlived the dinosaurs and lived through the ice age unscathed and even thrive in the urban jungle; the major metropolitan cities that humans dwell in.They'll probably still exist long after humans are extinct.
mds9986 24
Who cares? It's just one bug. That's what our immune systems are for, and it's not like it was cooked into the food, it just dived in right after it was done.
pandor_fml 24
After having squished many roaches and see those gross yellow gooey insides ooze out, there is absolutely no way I would play bug roulette with that casserole. Fishing it out is one thing, but that is entirely another!
alitairi 18
well duh. fish it out and eat the damn casserole. ESPECIALLY one that took 12 hours to make.
worldclassrager 41
Now do you have an exterminator coming soon so you can have a casserole in the future?
Dthsapprntc 23
Am I the only one that pictured the roach climbing up on the edge of the slow cooker, standing up on it's back legs and then executing a perfect swan dive into the casserole?
LoZelda123 20
Not anymore ^^
MsMedea 26
To help with the visual, it jumped from a shelf above the bench. I am pretty sure I saw it complete a double somersault in the pike position as it tumbled in slow motion right before my eyes!
Colon_Man 17
With it's little swimming cap on.
lilacgold 16
I'd have fished out the cockroach, plated up the casserole and just given it a good couple of minutes' zap in the microwave to deal with germs. No bug is going to stand between me and 12 hours' worth of cooking!
hippodankamus 22
Couldn't you have just scraped out the part where the cockroach jumped in? It's a shame you threw that whole casserole that you worked so hard on away just because a bug jumped in it. And you should call an exterminator.