The world record for live cockroaches eaten in 60 seconds

The world record for live cockroaches eaten in 60 seconds

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fact of the Day, Day day, day, day.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
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the Day theme aaking of food.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
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you saving that for Lada? Does anyone else have an
Instagram saved tab? And it's just all the rest of
his tray One day when they just totally give up. Yeah,
and they're like, yeah, thousand calories for one more mouthfuls whatever?

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Whatever? Have you weigh with me?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Day abeat us a trip to Yeah, there's an important distinction.
He's dropped something. And today's Fact of the Day about
food records.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
It's from two thousand and one.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
British man called Ken Edwards broke the world record by
eating thirty six live cockroaches and sixty seconds sixty second.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
That's one minute won every two seconds.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
And you want to want this because I always think
I'll just swallow it whole, swallow it down.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
But with a live bug you wouldn't want to do that.
Are they live.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
And also you're thinking your average west Auckland cockroach, which
as far as I know around New Zealand, fairly large cockroach.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, i'm them overseas, Like was it on the Fiji?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
We saw them and they were giantormous on the on
the Fiji Islands there were some and they were massive.
The cockroach you have to eat thirty two of No,
how many did he eat? Gotta go back to that
little bit. Sixty did Yeah, he ate thirty six live
cockroaches and sixty six sixty seconds.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Okay. The one you have to eat is the famous
medagascon hisky that's as long as your fingers, yeah, like
three inches. Yeah, like it looks like that sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Timon and Pomber would be stoked to find under a
logs that's a haua matata.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, it'd burst in your mouth and then they'd eat them.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Although I will say the original animated Lion King made
eating bugs look pretty good, Like the slurping and the
crunching and the stuff. It made me think I could
live on bugs. But that's the that's Approachin of the future,
I could have the button flour they make, you know,
they make that.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, I've hit the crickets. Yeah, I had some deep
fried crickets and it's fun. Yeah. So this is done.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Now you'll never beat this record because it's eating a
live animal. Oh and those upon, Now that was two
thousand and one when this happened, and that's big frown upon.
Okay frown upon. So thirty six live Madagascar madagascon his cockroaches,
yuck and sixty seconds is the record for today's Fact

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of the Day.