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TOASTED GRASSHOPPERS!!!!
They're serving them at Safeco Field in Seattle during Mariners games this season. $4 a cup. Would you crunch on these babies?
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/19102331/seattle-mariners-serve-toasted-grasshoppers-safeco-field
TDale313
(7,820 posts)GP6971
(31,165 posts)although I've heard they're delicious.
Lochloosa
(16,065 posts)unblock
(52,248 posts)Tasted like crunchy chicken but nothing special.
Much more interesting to talk about than to actually eat.
Docreed2003
(16,862 posts)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)...chickens, cows, pigs, fish are all extinct and each one I eat gets Snowflake Donnie a year in prison.
Ohioblue22
(1,430 posts)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
I was about to say, "That's great, more for you," but you threw in a twist at the end there.
Aristus
(66,381 posts)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)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)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)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.)
True Dough
(17,305 posts)They're not doing much better without you!
duncang
(1,907 posts)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.
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)I usually don't eat at a game. Sometimes, it's stuff I bring in.
rurallib
(62,421 posts)or - well you know
VOX
(22,976 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Nice to see them targeting their multicultural fan base.
True Dough
(17,305 posts)They are selling like hotcakes, forcing Safeco field to put some measures in place to make them last:
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