He did it.

June 12, 2000 1:48 PM

He did it. He tried to find a way to weasel out, but he did it. The people have spoken, and Greg Knauss has taken his, um, medicine like a man.
posted by harmful (10 comments total)

OK, OK, I know, I know...
posted by harmful at 1:54 PM on June 12, 2000

I can't believe Greg didn't know about Typhoon, in Santa Monica (surely Adam's heard of it?).

I hear it's not half bad. He could have had that cricket stir-fried.
posted by mathowie at 2:19 PM on June 12, 2000

just one word - EEEWWWW! Being the total pussy that I am, I probably would've opted to hold up my end of the deal by eating a vw BUG shaped chocolate.

Greg, you are a braver man than I.
posted by thinkdink at 2:50 PM on June 12, 2000

You know, that completely skipped my mind. I've eaten at Typhoon before, and remembered seeing fried crickets on the appetizer list.

Though, let's face it: Greg's story would have been nowhere near as funny if he'd been able to order spring rolls right along side his bugs.
posted by RakDaddy at 2:58 PM on June 12, 2000

What about escargo? Aren't snails bugs? That would've been my easy way out.

Well, easier. I mean, eating a butter-drenched ball of soft, squishy, slimy, snail meat is easier than a crunchy, crackily, chilatenous cricket.

I'll be the cricket was cheaper though. :-)
posted by cCranium at 2:59 PM on June 12, 2000

i just hadn't expected "bug shooters." cooking it into oblivion would enable the "it tastes just like chicken" option, but a shooter! man, there's no way that will ever taste like chicken. eating bugs that way will put antennae on your head!
posted by heather at 6:46 PM on June 12, 2000

Oh, Greg... you are the *man*.

And you sound more and more like Dave Barry every day.

(That's a compliment, by the way.)
posted by baylink at 7:13 PM on June 12, 2000

Me, I would have had a burger and then lied my ass off about it. How would any of you know? Sure, I'd know...but I wouldn't care.
posted by Ezrael at 8:23 PM on June 12, 2000

Greg has integrity. He has integrity and he's honest. Uh, he has integrity, he's honest, and he ATE A BUG!!! I so wish I had been there. *THAT* would have been a photo op!
posted by CrazyUncleJoe at 8:59 PM on June 12, 2000

As far as I'm concerned, it was his own damn fault. He put bug on the list with full knowledge that it would be chosen as #1. He made his peanut butter and cricket sandwich, and he ate. I respect that aspect of it, at least.
posted by plinth at 2:44 PM on June 13, 2000