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If you're going to a ball game, what's the likelihood you're going to eat these? (Original Post) True Dough Apr 2017 OP
Oh hell no! TDale313 Apr 2017 #1
Not me GP6971 Apr 2017 #2
I would try them. 4 bucks sounds like a steal at a ballgame ll Lochloosa Apr 2017 #3
! Kali Apr 2017 #7
I had cricket tacos in Mexico once. unblock Apr 2017 #4
Um...no.... Docreed2003 Apr 2017 #5
Only if... tekriter Apr 2017 #6
insects are a great food source absolutely filled with protein and the supply Ohioblue22 Apr 2017 #8
Aha! True Dough Apr 2017 #9
None whatsoever. Aristus Apr 2017 #10
Back in the 1970's customerserviceguy Apr 2017 #11
back in the day and being a poor OriginalGeek Apr 2017 #20
The amazing thing is it took them this long to add them to the menu jmowreader Apr 2017 #12
The Mariners are 1-4 so far this season True Dough Apr 2017 #13
Might duncang Apr 2017 #14
Zero sakabatou Apr 2017 #15
Uh - no - and the guy next to me better not eat them either rurallib Apr 2017 #16
No thank you. I'll stick with peanuts. VOX Apr 2017 #17
Fairly high if you are Mexican-American oberliner Apr 2017 #18
While the idea of eating toasted grasshoppers hasn't proved popular here at the DU True Dough Apr 2017 #19

unblock

(52,248 posts)
4. I had cricket tacos in Mexico once.
Fri Apr 7, 2017, 10:14 PM
Apr 2017

Tasted like crunchy chicken but nothing special.

Much more interesting to talk about than to actually eat.

Docreed2003

(16,862 posts)
5. Um...no....
Fri Apr 7, 2017, 10:16 PM
Apr 2017

Not that I'm inherently turned off by the dish. I have a thing about textures, it's the reason I hate celery. I realize it's totally irrational, but anything with significant texture turns my stomach. I'd imagine this would do the same!

tekriter

(827 posts)
6. Only if...
Fri Apr 7, 2017, 10:18 PM
Apr 2017

...chickens, cows, pigs, fish are all extinct and each one I eat gets Snowflake Donnie a year in prison.

 

Ohioblue22

(1,430 posts)
8. insects are a great food source absolutely filled with protein and the supply
Fri Apr 7, 2017, 11:29 PM
Apr 2017

Last edited Sat Apr 8, 2017, 10:36 AM - Edit history (1)

is almost inexhastable and we ought to be eating them. having said that it'll a cold starving day in hell before I eat one

Aristus

(66,381 posts)
10. None whatsoever.
Sat Apr 8, 2017, 01:15 AM
Apr 2017

A guy who owns one of the hot dogs stands at Safeco is an old schoolmate of mine going back to sixth grade. I'll buy from him, rather than eat that nsty stuff.

Some prognosticators insist that we'll all be eating insects in the years to come. But I disagree vehemently...

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
11. Back in the 1970's
Sat Apr 8, 2017, 02:35 AM
Apr 2017

Prognosticators said that the US would be on the metric system by 1980, looks like we stopped at the two liter soda bottle and the 100 millimeter cigarette.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
20. back in the day and being a poor
Fri Apr 14, 2017, 04:45 PM
Apr 2017

I always bought my weed by the gram.


But nowadays I refuse to drink any milliliters of beer. I want it by the pint. Or a forty.

jmowreader

(50,559 posts)
12. The amazing thing is it took them this long to add them to the menu
Sat Apr 8, 2017, 06:18 AM
Apr 2017

Many Asians enjoy eating these, and there are a lot of Asians in the Puget Sound region.

Which is why they can have mine. (I have sworn off going to Safeco Field, even though I love it there. The Mariners can be on a six-game winning streak...I walk into the house and they get stomped. The only explanation is that I'm a jinx.)

duncang

(1,907 posts)
14. Might
Sat Apr 8, 2017, 05:16 PM
Apr 2017

Always will try something at least once. I have had grasshoppers before. Just didn't care for the rear legs. They seem to be the most prickly. Just a warning as with a lot of the bugs. Make sure you have a tooth brush handy for afterward.

True Dough

(17,305 posts)
19. While the idea of eating toasted grasshoppers hasn't proved popular here at the DU
Fri Apr 14, 2017, 04:23 PM
Apr 2017

They are selling like hotcakes, forcing Safeco field to put some measures in place to make them last:

After surprisingly selling out of grasshoppers at a concession stand for the first three games of the season, the Seattle Mariners have called in an emergency order so that they last throughout this weekend. The team is also imposing a per-game order limit for the rest of the season.

Mariners spokeswoman Rebecca Hale told ESPN that the team sold 901 orders of the insects over the first three home games. The grasshoppers are toasted in a chili lime salt and come in a four-ounce cup for $4.

"We've sold roughly 18,000 grasshoppers," Hale said. "That's more than the restaurant [that runs the stand], Poquitos, sells in a year."


http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/19156119/seattle-mariners-selling-toasted-grasshoppers-concession-stand
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