PrintQuestion of the Day: What do you eat at the ballpark?
Baseball season is under way. What's your favorite thing to eat in the stands?
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32 Comments:
The traditional hot dog with mustard and a beer.
Colorado Jim at 9:18AM on 04/05/07
cracker jacks!
Stacy at 9:22AM on 04/05/07
cracker jacks!
Stacy at 9:23AM on 04/05/07
Crackerjacks (but I eat them at hockey games, not baseball)!
BaHa at 9:39AM on 04/05/07
This is a bit of a digression, but I really love cracker jacks too, and wanted to know if anyone else had noticed that the ratio of popcorn to peanuts has changed drastically in the past 15 years or so. Where have all my peanuts gone??
jbrach at 9:48AM on 04/05/07
You aren't really a fan of them if you don't call them by their proper name, "Cracker Jack" -- no S.
For me, it's all about the hot dogs. Ballparks are the only place I love a good dawg. The high volume they go through practically guarantees freshness, and the whole ballgame experience adds so much to it. Add a beer and I'm all set.
DonNunn at 10:02AM on 04/05/07
1. Hot dogs with onions, a bit of relish & ketchup and a ton of mustard.
2. Soft pretzels with mustard.
3. Peanuts in the shell.
4. Sunflower Seeds.
5. Beer, beer & more beer.
I don't make it to many ball games, so when I do I make the most of it!
2qrs at 10:23AM on 04/05/07
Fenway Franks!
megnut at 10:51AM on 04/05/07
Definitely hot dogs and beer. I've never been but I heard that the Giants (San Fran) ball park has garlic fries. The new Yankees stadium should think about having new variety of yummy eats.
funchic at 11:17AM on 04/05/07
Ballpark food is such a ripoff that I smuggle in burritos from Pancho Villa in San Francisco. The food at PacBell Park (I refuse to call the stadium anything else, and yes, Candlestick is still Candlestick) is actually pretty good, garlic fries included.
MLT at 11:25AM on 04/05/07
A "dollar dog" from Citizens Bank Park with kraut and mustard, peanuts in the shell and a Yuengling.
segalbraith at 11:55AM on 04/05/07
Shea lets you take food into the park, so we stop at the local bagel place on the way. Citibank Park, where the Long Island Ducks play, won't allow outside food, but has a good sausage with peppers, and Blue Point on tap.
jscheck at 12:01PM on 04/05/07
Garlic fries and a beer when at a SF Giants game.
Alaina Browne at 12:40PM on 04/05/07
Baseball season? I don't watch the game...I am a canadian after all. For me during the hockey season it would have to be a nice tray of poutine...so bad for you - but so good!!!
Lilartist at 1:23PM on 04/05/07
Hot dog with ketchup, warm peanuts and beer.
mel at 1:27PM on 04/05/07
Garlic fries and a nice microbrew on tap!
Diz at 1:39PM on 04/05/07
some of the best crab cakes i had when living in baltimore were from camden yard.
french tart at 1:43PM on 04/05/07
Beer... Hotdog w/ Relish and onion....Beer.... cotton Candy...Beer.
Alm25 at 2:46PM on 04/05/07
A dawg with mustard and a local beer. Cracker Jack for dessert.
ride&cook at 3:34PM on 04/05/07
Baseball season...I don't watch it. I'm a true Canadian - it's all about hockey. And when my little brother is on the ice, it's all about getting a nice serving of poutine...incredibly fattening...but amazingly good! You can never have enough.
Lilartist at 3:45PM on 04/05/07
Garlic fries... the smell holds court over the entire 3rd base side of the ballpark up here in Seattle. There's also sushi, "shishkaberries" (strawberries dipped in white &/or dark chocolate on a skewer), pulled pork sandwiches, Ivar's fish & chips, and kettle korn all eager to make their way into my belly between innings. And beer. Tasty, cold, microbrewed, and highly overpriced beer. Go M's.
Beth M. at 3:57PM on 04/05/07
Pacbell indeed - Inning 1 peanuts with a Steam, Inning 2 more of the same. Inning 3 or 4 hot dog with mustard,& onions with a Steam. Rest of the game, seeds with coors light(s). Tix always on the aisle so my beer filled belly relief trips, don't interfere with the neighbors watching the game.
Garlic Fries are good the first couple of times you have them. When they introduced them at Candlestick...you could smell them getting off the bus to the park, nearly a mile away & with that whilstling wind! A litte overwhelming & annoying after a while
Kim Nyland at 4:29PM on 04/05/07
I have to have a dog and a beer. If I go to Camden Yards I'll usually grab a sandwich from Boog's BBQ beyond the outfield wall as well.
I have, however, adopted the Gateway Grizzlies of the Independent League as my favorite team not named The Philadelphia Phillies. They're the ones that are serving Deep Fried White Castles.
Hungover Gourmet at 5:46PM on 04/05/07
Dollar dog at a Phillies game - total essence of summer. Last summer I had garlic fries at a Giants game... although delicious, I could taste garlic for the next 3 days and vowed never to have them again.
Elise at 8:47PM on 04/05/07
@Hungover Gourmet: The Grizzlies also do the bacon cheeseburger on Krispy Kreme "bun." Perhaps the only team hoping to kill its fans and thereby reduce attendance.
I with 2qrs. I don't make it to games that often, so when I do, it's a dog, peanuts, beer, nachos...
Adam Kuban at 9:41PM on 04/05/07
Adam... they also serve "a 1/5 pound Farmland 8 inch All Beef Black Angus Hot Dog, topped with two strips of freshly cooked bacon, 1 oz. Sautéed Onions, 1 oz. Sautéed Sauerkraut and ½ oz. Cheddar Cheese Sauce, all on a fresh baked bun" and The “Swiss Brat” "a Landshire Bratwurst with a slice of Swiss cheese in the middle of it. 1oz. of Sautéed Sauerkraut is served on top."
Road trip!!!
Hungover Gourmet at 10:45PM on 04/05/07
Beer, smuggled in. usally you can get the deli guy to wrap up a few cans so it looks like a hero.
Sancho231 at 1:41AM on 04/06/07
As an English reader who's never been to a baseball game (yet!), I've never heard of Crackerjack. Could someone explain?
zee at 3:15AM on 04/06/07
ohmygosh! I can't believe no one mentioned bratwurst! It wouldn't be ball season without a brat!
savvy at 9:52AM on 04/06/07
Zee, I give you the Crackerjack song: "Candy-coated popcorn, peanuts, and a prize. That's what you get in Crackerjack."
The prizes used to be fun, plastic toys and such but now they are temporary tatoos. Liability laws, I suppose. Sigh.
BaHa at 11:11AM on 04/06/07
The stuff the serve at ball parks, other sporting events or concerts doesn't qualify as food, to my mind.
And, as a Canadian all I can say about poutine is hurl!
tgchi at 8:51PM on 04/07/07
Thanks, BaHa. I look forward to my first ballgame - but will probably pass on the Crackerjack!
zee at 2:39PM on 04/08/07