5 wildest food items from MLB stadiums

1. Toasted Grasshoppers — T-Mobile Park (Seattle Mariners)

There is only one team in baseball that has never been to a World Series and it is the same franchise tucked away in the Pacific Northwest that has not been the postseason in 20 years. So what in Planet Earth are those Seattle Mariners doing in those concessions stands? Well, they have resorted to eating bugs, as in they toast grasshoppers and give them to humans to eat as food.

There is not enough Lawry’s seasoned salt or Tony Chachere’s to convince me that I am not eating a bug while I watch the Mariners be lost at sea on the baseball diamond once again. When you have lost your North Star, you resort to eating toasted insects.

I want to believe there is a die-hard Mariners fan who has convinced himself that if he eats a cup o’bugs once a game for 81 Seattle home games, his sacrifice for the team will help the M’s get back into the postseason. Several years later, he has developed an affinity for consuming all sorts of insects and arachnids. All the while, the Mariners are still chasing the elusive 2001 MLB season.

Overall, the common thread in all this is you can give me a pizza slice bigger than my face and I will eat it. You can put more meat on a burger than in Ron Swanson’s meat tornado burrito and I will eat that as well. However, putting foods in containers that is not reserved for them is wrong, just like putting Froot Loops on a hot dog, bull testicles on a po’boy and grasshoppers in your mouth.

Baseball stadium food is amazing, but most of us don’t have the palates of one Andrew Zimmern.