What on earth is it?
A wine-bottle stopper shaped like a cockroach. The insect sits above a silicone plug that fits into a bottle opening.
PHOTO UNAVAILABLEOne guest found the wine.
An alarmingly realistic cockroach is, on closer inspection, a silicone wine stopper.
It may look like a punchline. Look closer: what it does, why it caught our eye, and who would actually enjoy it.
A wine-bottle stopper shaped like a cockroach. The insect sits above a silicone plug that fits into a bottle opening.
Press the stopper into an opened wine bottle, then pull it back out by the roach when you are ready to pour again.
A roach near a glass usually ends the party. Here the same jolt of recognition turns into the reveal that it is protecting the unfinished bottle.
Hosts with an appetite for practical jokes and friends who can tolerate one brief, very convincing kitchen panic.
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