Slow Day at HARO: Meagan Eats a Grasshopper.
What happens on a slow day at the HARO HQ…
Thanks to Grasshopper.com for sending us the Grasshoppers.
Slow Day at HARO – Meagan eats a Grasshopper for fun. from Peter Shankman on Vimeo.
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June 10th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Where is the video? You’re killing me. Or is my browser insufficient in some way?
June 10th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
It just popped up. Never mind.
June 10th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Gotta say it. Meagan is hot.
June 10th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
OK – I’m sending Megan $50!! And Peter, after your “stint” in the Navy, you should also offer hazardous duty pay!!
June 10th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
P.S. I did not add that smiley emoticon thingy-would know how if I tried!
June 10th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Props to you Meagan! No way I could do that, even for $50 bucks. I just learned to eat sushi a few weeks ago… grasshoppers are a bit out there.
June 10th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
LMFAOOO! This is great- i love HARO lolol. We use grasshopper since it was gotvmail…I may stay with them forever just cuz of this video hahahahahaha!
June 10th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Those are really good!!! We used to give them out at tradeshows we attended to get attention.
Nothing like a good chocolate covered grasshopper. Live ones are even better but take a little more care to get them down quickly.
Great video.
June 10th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
I love your necklace, Meagan. Is that a silver leaf?
June 10th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Peter – You should give Megan $500.00 for turning that grasshopper-eating excercise from ‘pop it in your mouth’ to a five minute ordeal!
June 10th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
So, Peter, have YOU eaten one of these chocolate-covered grasshoppers from Grasshopper.com????
June 11th, 2009 at 5:51 am
This was great! Certainly made me laugh early in the morning! I think I would have done it too….
June 11th, 2009 at 6:15 am
Okay, that was hilarious. I do hope, for Megan’s sake, that you never ever have another slow day!
June 11th, 2009 at 6:29 am
Ok Meagan,
There’s a saying we say in Jamaica, GAL,YOUR GOOD! LOL
I totally support the foo chain from te ground up, and chocolate makes everything taste wonderful buttttttttttttttttttt but in light of the fact that I have several heating elements lovely spices, mucho liquids, great vino to cook with….. HELL to the NO, as I live in urban NY. LMAO! NOw trapped like reality show Survivor strong maybe… and I did say maybe…LOL I agree with Linda.. $500.00..LOL MAngia
June 11th, 2009 at 6:35 am
Meagan and I now have something in common! I ate a fried grasshopper in 9th grade biology for extra credit (I did well on written exams but when it came to dissection, my teacher says I should be a butcher
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June 11th, 2009 at 6:43 am
Meagan and I have something in common! I once “had” to eat a fried grasshopper for extra credit in Freshman Biology.
June 11th, 2009 at 6:58 am
Thanks for sharing – now my day seems so much better!
June 11th, 2009 at 7:02 am
Peter;
I would strongly suggest that Meagan stay away from large vats of chocolate or the grasshopper’s relatives may want to get even!
June 11th, 2009 at 7:09 am
Meagan, I am so impressed; I couldn’t do it! Peter, you should be ashamed that you did not partake with her!
June 11th, 2009 at 7:16 am
You are on Fear Factor Shankman style. You go girl!
June 11th, 2009 at 7:18 am
the best part is that Seal is singing Killer! How appropriate for the grasshopper eater… even though she technically did not kill it. question – would you eat another one?
June 11th, 2009 at 7:30 am
Hey you two – I saw a bit of poor Megan’s toes and I would love to do a toe reading for her and for you if you are up to it. From that quick flash of toes I can tell you all about Megan. Send me pics of your feet, flat on the ground, and I will tell you a few things about you and what those toes are telling the world. I have a new workbook coming out as soon as I find a publisher for it. Hope to see those toes soon.
June 11th, 2009 at 7:33 am
Saw a flash of Megan’s toes and I would love to volunteer a toe reading for that brave girl. Email pics of toes and I will email her a great reading. Yours too if you are brave enough!
June 11th, 2009 at 7:34 am
Okay, I hate to say it, but I hope today is another slow day at HARO! That was well worth the watch. Thank you, Meagan, for humoring your employer.
June 11th, 2009 at 7:49 am
Meagan – I would have done it all in one fell swoop and used the Cheerios in the background as a chaser! BTW, Peter – love the view from HQ!
June 11th, 2009 at 8:03 am
Speaking on behalf of assistants everywhere…Meagan needs a raise!
June 11th, 2009 at 8:05 am
Wow, Peter. You *must* have younger siblings, because only a sadistic big brother would get such joy out of tormenting someone into eating a bug! “What sound does a grasshopper make? *kkkcch-kkkch-kkkch*” Evil man!
But Meagan, go you! (I’d ask for a raise! lol)
June 11th, 2009 at 8:06 am
LOVE the extreme close up of the partially-coated ghopper…little bit of bait and switch though–the email didn’t mention ‘chocolate’!
Still, many kudos Meagan!
June 11th, 2009 at 8:20 am
Congrats Meagan! Perhaps you are destined to a shot on “I work for a Wacko, Get me out of here!”
June 11th, 2009 at 8:26 am
Ever since I learned that consuming sugar is the dietary equivalent of committing suicide, I have avoided sugar like the plague. So now, instead of eating sugar, I eat chocolate instead. Meagan’s experience has proven once again that the old saying rings true — “Thank God for chocolate!”
June 11th, 2009 at 8:37 am
Meagan, you’re a good woman, but really, 50 bucks???? That was worth soooo much more!
June 11th, 2009 at 8:44 am
I can’t figure out why this is grosser than eating cows, chickens, or pigs, but it just is.
June 11th, 2009 at 8:58 am
Uhm, Peter, you know that HARO job thing I applied for a couple of days ago? I, uhm…may not be a good fit for your insect-eating workplace culture. So…never mind. Yeah. I…uhm…please…lose my resume. Please! Aaaaaaack!
June 11th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Here in Maryland we devour soft-shelled crabs. Once you’ve bitten into a whole crab, something like a little ol’ chocolate covered grasshopper just seems like an after dinner mint!
June 11th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Meagan, you are one brave woman! Peter, you are getting an awful lot of publicity with this…you know, advertising costs money…I think you need to pay Meagan $50 per comment!
June 11th, 2009 at 9:55 am
I agree with Linda & Leesa…Megan, you were totally brave!
June 11th, 2009 at 10:20 am
Peter! Pay that woman more so she doesn’t have to eat bugs to earn $50!
Meagan, you are a great sport! I love your office fun, guys. Really, I agree with Walking in My Sleep. Up the ante next time, Meagan!!
June 11th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Peter, you’re mean! You enjoyed that far too much. Meagan, you rock.
June 11th, 2009 at 10:45 am
May the sun start to shine very soon in NYC and may the HARO office get REALLY busy… for Meagan’s sake!
June 11th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Eww – at least there was chocolate involved. I don’t know why running in place makes the gross less gross, but it makes sense
Megan, you get The Bravest HAROer Ever award. Our office agrees we’d rather jump from a plane than eat a grasshopper!
June 11th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Peter, don’t kill me. I LOVE Seal (the singer, not the next Meagan snack). But when the video first starts, the background music seriously sounds like swanky ’80s porn….(not that I’d know, Mom)
June 11th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Meagan, you are the coolest. I ate one for the Fox TV morning show here in Phoenix once when I was still an assignment editor. Sometimes you will do almost anything for your employer. Almost.
June 11th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Peter – Back in the day, I was on a business trip to Botswana, South Africa, and at the buffalo meat steakhouse we went to, our appetizer was grasshoppers – grilled and served with or without sauce. The big deal about it was that they had ‘lots of protein’. So we all tried ‘em – they were fine. The unsauced ones were chewy like cardboard, and the saucey ones were a bit overwhelmed by the sauce. So I had another unsauced one. Then promptly started to get sauced myself.
June 11th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Peter,
What’s next?…. Lizzard and onion?
June 11th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Meagan:
He’s not paying you enough to eat grasshoppers!
June 11th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Meagan, you are amazing! I think Peter should give you a big bonus for being such a good sport.
Peter, next time you get a fun food sponsor (monkey brains, anyone?) I think Meagan should video you eating it…
June 11th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
OMG!!!! I can’t believe you ate that for $50.00!!!! What a trooper you are! And, Peter, you crack me up! Thanks for the laugh to both of you!
June 11th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
LOL…. thanks!
June 12th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Oh wow, that’s sooo creepy. Congratulations Meagan, I don’t think I would ever be able to do that. Peter, wow…this is what happens on a slow day.
June 15th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
I’ll eat chocolate-covered-just-about-anything!
June 18th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
that must have been really delicious….lol
June 21st, 2009 at 10:41 am
Alas poor Meagan, you’ve fallen under his spell. You are a better woman than I am.
Peter, I’ll pay you $100 to eat one – slowly, bit by bit, crunch by crunch….morsel by morsel….
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