Chocolate/cockroaches

Is it true that chocolate has some parts of cockroaches in it, because somebody told me that once but im not sure if I should believe them?

I think what they were referring to is that the food and drug administration allows a small percentage (very miniscule in fact) of foriegn matter to be present in food.

what they allow is harmless to us- although to know the possibilities , to some may be a discusting thought.

I have never heard of roaches being an actual ingredient in our everyday run of the mill chocolate- a possible 'accidental' or 'incidental' ingredient- but never on purpose or by design.

in some parts of the world, insects (including cockroaches) are an important - and NUTRITIOUS staple to peoples diet.

we eat insect relatives all of the time - most crustaceans are related to insects (shrimp, lobster, crabs, crawfish) the main difference being they live in an aquatic environment.

My father-in-law worked at a fairly famous candy plant and he said that there is actually a large amount of crushed cockroach in the chocolate we eat. He said that the reason people are allergic to chocolate is not because of the cocoa bean, but because of the cockroaches that thrive off the bean. When the beans are ground up the cockroaches that eat the bean (and lay eggs in the bean) are ground up right along with the chocolate. He may be pulling my leg, but it was a pretty convincing story. I still have trouble eating chocolate.

ew, that sounds gross.

I hope not...I'm eating chocolate right now.

Actually, I've heard of this awful place where they sell things like caramelized scorpions, chocolate-coated bacon as well as chocolate-coated cockroaches. Some people seem to have developed a taste for them, but those kinds of people probably have toxicated tastebuds. Yuk...

oh god I hope not, I dont think I would ever eat chocolate again!!!