[oliveshell]

They’re hardy scavengers that benefit from human settlement and food waste.

[trevyn]

Benefit in the most horrific of ways. I once watched a cockroach eat a dead cockroach. It was very... enlightening.

[devin]

Welcome to nature. We've civilized misery, but it's misery nonetheless.

[3131s]

Cockroaches eat almost anything, like rotting wood, glue, toothpaste, dead things, food waste, etc.

And they can also go about a month without eating anything.