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Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It would take more energy to digest the pickle than the pickle would provide.
One example that I like to use is this: would a cockroach eat it? Roaches eat everything from food crumbs to wallpaper paste. Anything with calories. Do you know something that roaches WON’T eat? Cucumbers.
So long as the pickles don’t have sugar in the brine, I would say you would likely starve to death.
tryptaminev@feddit.de 5 months ago
That is a poor metric. Pickles are salty and acidic as fuck. Covkroaches dont literally eat everything with calories.
geogle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
He mentioned that roaches wouldn’t eat cucumbers, not pickles.
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Nature has a way of providing an observable metric.
Let me correct my statement. Given no alternatives, cockroaches will eat anything without a caloric deficit. Hence my statement about wallpaper paste. A true infestation of cockraoches will eat anything that will sustain the intrusion. If there is no available “food” around, cockroaches will crawl over cucumbers to eat the paste holding the wallpaper to the wall.
So long as there is no additional sugar in the brine (hence calories), the roaches will not eat the pickles.