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 to last them throughout this weekend and are imposing a per game order limit for the rest of the season.
Team spokesperson 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.