One of the last meals I had at the hospital staff cafeteria was chicken and cauliflower. It was quite tasty and we were sitting there (about 6 radiographers and a few nurses) just talking and eating. On close inspection, I noted that the cauliflower did not in fact have a sprinkling of pepper on it, the tiny black specks were actually baby roaches!! You had to look very closely to see the antennae on them (in fact these roaches were so small that some people couldn't see that these were roaches even after I told them).
I then took great delight in visiting other tables and asking them if they liked the cauliflower. When they nodded and smiled, I told them they were roaches, not pepper. You should have seen their faces!
I'll say one thing: the roaches were quite tangy, that's probably why the pepper disguise worked so well.
Of course I had a little word with the catering manager about this. My subsequent investigation revealed bags of cauliflower that had been left out on the loading platform for two nights where they were obviously converted into love shacks by the local roach community.
Ironically the fact that there were so many specks on the cauliflower meant that nobody was the wiser. If there had been fewer specks (say ten or less per plate) the roaches would have been found earlier. Based on the amount of specks per square inch and the fact that we each ate at least one third of the meal, I estimate that we each ate at least thirty baby roaches that day.
