roach

The best answer Sutton offers is a statement by the preacher John Roach Stratton back in 1918.

Will crunchy parents be running to the pet stores for roach farms?

You are what you eat,” Roach writes, “but more than that, you are how you eat.

“Sure,” the one guy says, and passes over a roach (the end of a joint).

Each bowed his or her head, and Roach responded in turn with a warm, toothy smile.

The sun first sees the brook in the meadow where some roach swim under a bulging root of ash.

A flash of silver through the air, then a puff of wind, and a red-finned, black-backed roach of about 8-oz.

The Chub always liking their fly tied large, the Dace and Roach preferring theirs small.

Its stomach contained fragments of beetles and a large roach.

The Broads and rivers abound with bream and roach; and there are pike, perch, and eels.