Growing up in Canada, I never saw a real, live cockroach until my first trip to Mexico. Now that we live in Japan, they are very common (and BIG too). The first time we had one in the house, my wife was so freaked out, she was standing on the couch, screaming. I tried to catch it but as soon as I got close, it took flight and flew across to the other side of the room, all the while my wife is screaming, "OHMYGOD!THEYGOTWINGS!OHMYGOD!"

Never found one in my coffee cup though. The closest I've come is a co-worker sadly informing me that we would no longer be eating a restaurant we used to go to all the time for lunch because apparently, the week before, they had been there for lunch and got served a cockroach in their kim chi -- the restaurant didn't even have the courtesy to apologize.