MyNorthwest: For the past seven years, at the start of baseball season, Seattle media are invited to Safeco Field to try the new menu items curated by Seattle Chef Ethan Stowell. And this year was no different. Chef Stowell says it’s the first year they’ve invited a bunch of local restaurants to serve food at the stadium.
“We’ve got Great State Burger coming in,” Stowell said. “We’ve got Poquitos Mexican food coming in. We’ve got Ballard Pizza Company, we’ve got Bramling Cross and Dynamite Chicken coming in, Uptown China.”
Hamburgers, hot dogs, fries and peanuts are still best sellers, but Stowell and the Mariners love pushing the envelope. This year they’re introducing “Seattle wings,” which are actually fried oysters drizzled with hot sauce and Poquitos gives you the option of topping your tacos with crispy fried grasshoppers. Read more
they must be so proud
Seattle is doomed. Flee now before it gets a direct hit by the SMOD (Sweet Meteor Of Death).
Though I think SF is higher on the list.
Baseball is hotdogs, beer, peanuts and crackerjack. These people are beyond nuts!
If the stinking Mariners can’t play any better soon maybe we should call them The Grasshoppers. I used to call them The Manures. GO DODGERS!
Grasshoppers and oysters, eh? Helluva casserole there! Only in Seattle . . .
Boogers and bugs.
There is only one reason to eat bugs:
You will starve to death if you don’t
Other options reek of hubris and a haughty nature
And the boogers probably taste better than the bugs, ask a kid.
I’ll take the oysters san hot sauce. Hot sauce is not a Seattle staple among natives. We’re all Scandahoovian, for heaven’s sake! Hot sauce? That’s a southern introduction. Grasshoppers? It’s a foodie thing. Think kale.
(I live in Seattle’s great past. 😉 )
At a super bowl party this year a buddy brought sour cream and onion flavored crickets, bbq mealworms and some other flavored bug. I tried them all, you wouldn’t know they were bugs if you didn’t look at them.
I road my Harley thru N M a few years ago, that state has to be grasshopper capital of the world. Someone can get rich mining those slimey insects and selling them to the libertards.
I like both, yeah, I know, surprise.
Hope they don’t get their oysters from Seattle.
Being raised on oysters I was thrilled when spending time there for work I discovered they had huge oysters cheap. Cheap should have been a warning shot heard.
They positively sucked when shucked
Tried them fried, broiled, in a stew and the worst, raw.
Ick, yuck, gag and spew.
No wonder people don’t like oysters.
How about GRUBS and SUGAR ANTS to attract the Australian bushman fans?
Ticket prices: it all started with Curt Flood St. Louis Cardinals: google it and you’ll learn how collective bargaining started in sports.
Doc, speaking of sugar ants, I bet the stadium has ’em. But I’ll never go there to find out – voted no on the stupid thing years ago and refuse to set foot in publicly funded, pro-sports arenas.
Seattle is to be avoided at all costs.
@OpenTheDoor — Seattle, per se, doesn’t farm oysters. Those great big oyster monsters to which you refer are the common Pacific oysters and they are found mostly in the peninsula regions of Puget Sound. But they’re like zuccuni, you don’t have to wait and eat them when they’re five pound monsters. You eat them when they are young and they are amazingly tasty. One of the world’s smallest and priciest oysters comes from the mud flats of Budd inlet in Olympia, sixty miles south of Seattle. Hence, the Olympia oyster, a delicacy. The Puget Sound and many bay regions of WA are home to world class oysters. We even have an Oyster Olympics in Seattle, put on by Elliot’s restaurant. Pay $50 or so bucks and you can nosh on dozens of varieties and wash them down with local beers, wines and bubbly all night long. Love dem little oysters.
…raw, naturally. It’s like eating the sea. Oooooo.
(Now I want a plate of freshly shucked oysters and some mignonette.)
As long as it isn’t a geoduck (gooey duck). Have you ever noticed that geoducks look like giant flaccid penises? I’m not a big fan of oysters but that’s probably because I live on the wrong side of Wash. state for fresh seafood. I’ll eat salmon anytime.
@Abby, if you say so, just don’t try and convince me Dungeness crabs are as good as callinectes sapidus, tran: tasty beautiful swimmer, Atlantic Blue Crabs, the best no matter their size.
I would like to point out, they have tried to import the eastern oyster to the Pacific but nobody has ever tried to grow Pacific oysters here, just sayin’.
I have a qt. of good eastern oysters in the freezer, see what you did.
As a kid I loved oysters and would always order them when our family went out to dinner. Then as a teenager I worked as an oyster picker hauling 60 lb. tubs of oysters on the mudflats then loading them onto a barge. Ever since then I’ve hated oysters.
They just might go well with the fried, boiled or sauteed human body parts that PBS is currently shilling!
@OpenTheDoor — Oh, I see how it is. Regional oyster and crab snobbery! lol
Dungeness is too rich for me, I can only eat a little of it. But Alaska King! Tie a crab bib on me and melt a pound of butter!! Never had eastern crab before, but I’ll take your word for it. Eastern oysters? No, I don’t think so. I like the wild, cold waters of the Pacific. 😉
Pacific oysters won’t grow in the east. That’s why they call them Pacific oysters. lol! They’re good, but a lot of neophytes eat them when they’re too big. So many others out here to choose from if you don’t like their taste. I like them right on the beach with an oyster knife and a jar of cocktail sauce. Great on the bbq, too. (You can’t take the oyster shells off the beach.)
Those giant Pacific oysters make great chowder – if you can’t stomach eating them raw or sauteed.
I ordered GRASSHOPPERS! These are goddamn
katydids DAMMIT!