I’ve voluntarily eaten insects on a handful of occasions, but only when the situation was right. Like at The Explorer’s Club in NYC where they served us tarantulas and crickets. Or at a Dos Equis gala where insects and rattlesnakes were served as appetizers. At a ballgame, though? Fuck that. When I’m at a baseball game I’m eating hot dogs, peanuts, and/or nachos…not necessarily in that order.
Seattle Mariners fans are living outside of the (Cracker Jack) box this season and are opting to eat a literal shit ton of insects.
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.” (Via ESPN)
There’s no fucking way they can sustain these sales for an entire season. Frankly, I see no possible way to make a crunchy grasshopper tasty. This is a novelty snack, nothing more. We don’t live in a world where eating grasshoppers are actually enjoyable. It’s just something new to do, and I’ll remain hopeful that Mariners fans will come to their sense by the end of the MLB season.
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