# Chocolate Covered Grasshoppers
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-grasshoppers/102025
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 5, 2002, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-grasshoppers/102025 "2002-04-05T17:01:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@Castaldi\_of\_the\_Mazzharat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Castaldi_of_the_Mazzharat)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2002, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-grasshoppers/102025/1 "2002-04-05T17:01:06Z")
Anyone ever eaten these? I just ordered some, found out who the TRUE adventurers at work are. š
Would you ever try one? They had chocolate covered ants and mealworms too, those sounded less appetizing that a cricket with its head, legs, and wings removed, roasted, enclosed in milk chocolate.
Mmmmmā¦
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2002, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-grasshoppers/102025/2 "2002-04-05T17:04:49Z")
I never had them with chocolate, but Iāve had grasshoppers pan-roasted and salted. Same with ants. They taste best with some lemongrass and chilis thrown in the mix. I recommend to wash down with cold beers. Maybe precede with same-said cold beers.
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### Author:  [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2002, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-grasshoppers/102025/3 "2002-04-05T18:18:10Z")
I am unexperienced in this area, yet intrigued. Where did you order from?
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2002, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-grasshoppers/102025/4 "2002-04-05T18:40:12Z")
Yeah, tell us where you ordered them, Iād like to try some of these treats. I donāt know if Iād eat the full-on whole grasshopper though, chocolate or not. That sounds like too much insect per chocolate, unless they are smaller 'hoppers than Iām used to from my childhood days.
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### Author:  [@Castaldi\_of\_the\_Mazzharat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Castaldi_of_the_Mazzharat)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2002, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-grasshoppers/102025/5 "2002-04-05T18:42:47Z")
Hereās where I got the chocolate covered grasshoppersā¦
[http://www.realcooltoys.com/choccovcricb.html](http://www.realcooltoys.com/choccovcricb.html)
Or here:
[http://www.realcooltoys.com/chocdipin.html](http://www.realcooltoys.com/chocdipin.html)
The second link is a grab bag, chocolate covered crickets and (ewww) chocolate covered mealworms.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2002, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-grasshoppers/102025/6 "2002-04-05T18:52:27Z")
OK, technically those are just crickets, and not grasshoppers. I could see eatcing crickets, especially with the legs and such removed.
Grasshoppers are another story. Those are big, ugly, leggy things that secrete that nasty tobacco-juice looking stuff. Thereās have to be a LOT of chocolate around a TINY grasshopper for me to eat that.
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### Author:  [@Castaldi\_of\_the\_Mazzharat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Castaldi_of_the_Mazzharat)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2002, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-grasshoppers/102025/7 "2002-04-05T18:54:55Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Revtim \*
> \*\*OK, technically those are just crickets, and not grasshoppers. I could see eatcing crickets, especially with the legs and such removed. \*\*
Oh, wow, youāre right! I never even noticed till nowā¦though grasshoppers are a good thing too, I loved those (small hoppers!) Go to google and do a search for āchocolate covered grasshoppers.ā Lotsa links!
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### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2002, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-grasshoppers/102025/8 "2002-04-05T19:24:13Z")
[This book](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1580080227/qid=1018034466/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-9170050-8019864) has everything you ever wanted to know about āman eating bugsā.
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### Author:  [@Castaldi\_of\_the\_Mazzharat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Castaldi_of_the_Mazzharat)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2002, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-grasshoppers/102025/9 "2002-04-05T19:46:11Z")
You know, I hear tarantula is pretty good. If you get the poison out, the meat supposedly tastes like chicken.
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### Author:  [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2002, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-grasshoppers/102025/10 "2002-04-05T20:19:49Z")
Iād eat 'em. I was convinced by the cook in _Lonesome Dove_ that theyād be good. After all, Iāve eaten snails, how bad can bugs be? But meal worms, Iām not sure. I saw what looked like maggots being fried up on a show on MTV one time. I would not eat a maggot, of that I have NO doubt.
But it doesnāt surprise me that it would be MTV where Iād see one consumed.:rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Castaldi\_of\_the\_Mazzharat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Castaldi_of_the_Mazzharat)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2002, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-grasshoppers/102025/11 "2002-04-05T20:23:15Z")
No, mealworms sound a bit too gross for me as well, donāt think I could handle those. Ugh.
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### Author:  [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2002, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-grasshoppers/102025/12 "2002-04-05T20:42:06Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by SteveK42 \*
> \*\*You know, I hear tarantula is pretty good. If you get the poison out, the meat supposedly tastes like chicken. \*\*
Everything supposidly tastes like chickenā¦ but why should it?
A tarantula is an insectā¦ not a bird!
Does fish taste like chicken? nopeā¦
Does beef/pork/lamb taste like chicken? nopeā¦
Does turkey/pigeon/pheasant taste like chicken?.. nope!
Sorry - this isnāt a flame, its just it seems everyone describes something they havenāt eaten, but heard that other people do, as probably ātasting like chickenā
You may of course be rightā¦ š
but, Iāve eaten Ostrich, Kangaroo, Snake, Shark, Crocodile, (and some very strange stuff I have no idea what it was in Thailandā¦) and none of it tasted like chicken!
Iāve yet to do bugs thoughā¦ š
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### Author:  [@Castaldi\_of\_the\_Mazzharat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Castaldi_of_the_Mazzharat)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2002, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-grasshoppers/102025/13 "2002-04-05T20:46:13Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Synnic \*
> \*\*
> Everything supposidly tastes like chickenā¦ but why should it?
> A tarantula is an insectā¦ not a bird!
> Does fish taste like chicken? nopeā¦
> Does beef/pork/lamb taste like chicken? nopeā¦
> Does turkey/pigeon/pheasant taste like chicken?.. nope!
> Sorry - this isnāt a flame, its just it seems everyone describes something they havenāt eaten, but heard that other people do, as probably ātasting like chickenā
> You may of course be rightā¦ š
> but, Iāve eaten Ostrich, Kangaroo, Snake, Shark, Crocodile, (and some very strange stuff I have no idea what it was in Thailandā¦) and none of it tasted like chicken!
> Iāve yet to do bugs thoughā¦ š \*\*
Yeah, so do those things taste like chicken, or does chicken taste like those things?
I know when I went to Korea for a month, there were a few places where I had chicken that DID NOT taste like chickenā¦hmmmā¦
Ostrich, Emu, those are red meat. Taste like beef!
Try [http://www.exoticmeats.com](http://www.exoticmeats.com). You can get everything from antelope to rattlesnake, kangaroo to snapping turtle.
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### Author:  [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2002, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-grasshoppers/102025/14 "2002-04-05T20:57:51Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by SteveK42 \*
> \*\*
>
> Yeah, so do those things taste like chicken, or does chicken taste like those things?
>
> I know when I went to Korea for a month, there were a few places where I had chicken that DID NOT taste like chickenā¦hmmmā¦
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> \*\*
š Well, the only thing Iāve eaten (and thats quite a few things) that tasted like chicken was chicken!
Maybe though - (if youāve had chicken that didnāt taste like chicken,) the things I ate were supposed to taste like chicken, but didnāt?
Although, I would rather hazzard a guess that what you thought was chicken, wasnt?
š
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### Author:  [@Castaldi\_of\_the\_Mazzharat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Castaldi_of_the_Mazzharat)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2002, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-grasshoppers/102025/15 "2002-04-05T21:01:04Z")
I try not to think about it, and I will continue to try not to unless I decide to become a bulimic. š