Comments on: Chapurrines aka Grasshoppers

By: Josue Gomez

Josue Gomez — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:31:58 +0000

I love Chapurrines! but I think that the Mayans Chocolate covered grasshoppers are even better. I am a Mixtec from Oaxaca, so take my word for it, if you love chapurrines come to yucatan to get chocolate ones

By: Tyler Ingram

Tyler Ingram — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:16:11 +0000

I liked them. Took me a while to eat them and can’t remember if I ever finished them but I would say most people here wouldn’t try them when they saw what they were. I thought they were good

By: Tyson

Tyson — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:56:59 +0000

That’s Crazy! i was in Huatulco, Mexico just recently, and brought the exact same package back. I made some of my friends eat them, they said they were okay, but kinda tea tasting, then salty. Now i’m using them for a highschool project, and googled the “chapurrines” and found ur page, how ironic!

By: Carmen

Carmen — Wed, 02 May 2007 07:18:08 +0000

Hola!
I own a Restaurnt in Puerto Vallarta Mexico. We have been selling “Chapurrines” for over 2 years now. We have a lot of Cnadians and Americans that have tried them for the first time, and I am pleased to say more than 70 % of the people like them. “Chapurrines” is a trademark name for a very old product for the Southern region of Oaxaca. The actual name for crickets is chapulines. These guys came up with the idea to change the original deep fat fried version for a roasted one. This improves greatly the flavour and less fat content.
Here we prepare them in a taco , with freshly hand made soft corn tortillas, served with a green tomatillo and avocado salsa, also available by the jar to take seaed back to the US or CAN. When people comment how stange it is and makle a yuk! face I tell them it is just in their minds, and if they dont try it how would they know if they like it or not?

By: Tyler Ingram

Tyler Ingram — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:46:23 +0000

They aren’t bad. Especially when you get a full grasshopper to munch on. Think the biggest one in the package was roughly 2 inches in length!

By: John Chow

John Chow — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:20:15 +0000

OK, that is just wrong. But I will try it.