I had the opportunity to go to opening day at Yankee Stadium this year and it was a near perfect day. I say near perfect because Michael Pineda had a no no going through 6 innings, the weather was perfect, and I was ten rows back from home plate, dead center. Plus I was with my brother and sans my children and the wife. Doesn’t get much better than that. Only one thing would have made that a perfect day: A Carl’s Steak. I got on a line that I could have sworn was for Carl’s and it wasn’t. I wound up getting a sub par steak sandwich that didn’t compare to Carl’s. Turns out Carl’s was right near my section and I’m a moron. Why do I bring this up? Because at least I wasn’t eating insects, which apparently Seattle Mariners fans are going crazy for.
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)
Guess I’ll have to try one.
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