Though I'm not the one keeping vermin as pets.

One of my coworkers scavenges bits of apple core and banana for her Hissing Cockroaches. The other day, I was eating a satsuma mandarin. She said
"Oh, hey Jane, can I give some of the peel to the roaches?"
"Um... I... ate it."
"No, no, the peel."
"Yeah, I ate that."
"The peel?"
"Yeeeahh."

Thus go my efforts to not seem unduly strange: undermined. By me.