[raverbashing]

Interesting

It seems it can't really handle context, so 'cockroaches' may have been a mistranslation of 'cheap' in some contexts, as the 'it had stopped chestnut' may have simply been 'brazil nuts'

[aylons]

Most probably the OCR read "batata" (potato) as "barata" (cockroach).

[raverbashing]

Yeah, this is very likely as well, especially if the t was printed incorrectly