Ack! I have swallowed many a gnat and some flies but never a grasshopper. On Bike Forums, there's a very old thread somewhere about What's the Biggest Bug You Ever Swallowed on Your Bike?
Protein. I try to think of it as protein.
"My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved;I have been given much and I have given something in return...Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and an adventure." O. Sacks