Blogging My Life...Clearly, I was not the only one to receive these chocolate grass hoppers from grasshopper.com today. I was not able to eat them, because grasshoppers are not kosher, but the RustyBrickers wanted to try them out.
Here is a video of them chowing down on the grasshoppers:
Here are pictures of the grasshopper with the chocolate cracked off:
A still image - just before eating them:
Packaging on the bottom left...
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that is so gross
thank god u cant eat them
Posted by: GRASSHOPERS | May 12, 2009 3:47 PM
I was curious to find out exactly why grasshoppers aren't kosher, so I looked it up online and found a bunch of pages saying that they are kosher. Here is one of them: http://www.bluethread.com/kashrut/grasshopper-YES.html
Now I'm just confused, because other people say that they aren't kosher.
Posted by: Adam Snider | May 13, 2009 3:28 PM
maybe they are... i just assumed not...
Posted by: Barry Schwartz | May 13, 2009 3:34 PM
Most grasshoppers are indeed not kosher. However, there is a species of kosher grasshopper that most Jews do not eat because they have lost the tradition as to which they are. Certain Yeminite jews still do eat the 'Chagav'.
Posted by: israelbro | May 13, 2009 4:20 PM
Thanks IsraelBro, glad you cleared things up.
Posted by: Barry Schwartz | May 13, 2009 4:28 PM
Nah, I received it too but [shakes head] no way I'm eating those. In fact, it'll be a while before I don't associate chocolate with this stuff :D
Posted by: Ruud Hein | May 13, 2009 4:36 PM
I googled "chocolate grasshoppers" after I received a package via FedEx and just came across your post. Eeeewww! I'm so glad I haven't opened my package. And now I don't intend to! Let me know if you experienced any gastrointestinal distress. :-)
@CarriBugbee
Posted by: Carri Bugbee | May 18, 2009 2:02 AM