In honor of baseball season, let's talk hot dogs

[jmowreader]

1) What’s your favorite stadium hot dog?

2) Describe the dogs sold at your nearest MLB park.

And to start out...

1) The Martinsville Hot Dog, sold in vast quantities every year at Martinsville Speedway. Steamed bun, bright-red hot dog, mustard, chili, slaw and onions.

2) T-Mobile Park in Seattle (which opened as Safeco Field) serves the worst hot dog in baseball. It’s unconstitutional to not sell hot dogs at ballparks, but T-Mobile Park has such a great food scene they don’t want people wasting their palates and stomach capacity on boring old hot dogs. Therefore, they sell you this boiled, bland wiener on a utility-grade bun and have a table over there with ketchup and mustard (and nothing else) to dress the thing with. They don’t even have cream cheese, which is an extremely popular hot dog condiment in Seattle. Don’t eat hot dogs at Mariners games. If you insist on eating a hot dog when you watch a Mariners game, the road between the Link station and the park has about eight food carts on it, all with hot dogs far superior (and cheaper) to the ones inside T-Mobile.

[Sneederbunk]

1. By the time I pay for tickets I cannot afford to eat or drink at the game.

[Lindsay]

2. I grew up in Cleveland,

where the standard was Sugardale Coney hot dogs with Bertman's Stadium mustard.

That was some many years ago, though.

[Ohiogal]

6. I remember those.

I believe you can still get one.

But check this out ....

https://www.mlb.com/cut4/a-look-at-the-hot-dogs-offered-at-progressive-field-during-the-world-series-c207

I guess I’m a hot dog purist. Don’t adulterate mine with Froot Loops, for God’s sake. And don’t charge me $10 for one,either.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

9. Yep! Old Municipal Stadium. My wife and I went to a game at Jacob's Field in the mid nineties. The

mustard freaked her out!

[Freddie]

3. I had a superb hot dog at a Marlins game

Foot-long, grilled (not boiled), one of the best hot dogs I ever had in my 60+ years. Beautiful indoor park, parking garage across the street, and they won that night.

[stopwastingmymoney]

4. Miller dogs

Served at the Oakland A’s stadium and grocery stores nearby

Very tasty, I never buy anything else

[brokephibroke]

5. Coors Field is not a great hot dog stadium

Btw, dodger dogs suck.

[MenloParque]

7. Oracle Park

I LOVE the Sheboygan brat at Oracle park. If you are in SF, do yourself a favor and get the Gilroy Garlic Fries. These have been a staple at SF Giants game since 1994. Of course, the San Francisco Giants were the very first park by YEARS to serve these SF Bay Area invention - down the road in San Jose. You can smell the garlic fries immediately when entering the park. No other park does the garlic fries as well...they are just poor imitators.

[TlalocW]

8. I don't go to a lot of stadium games unless I'm entertaining

But for a while in a KC suburb we had a great hot dog place started by a New York native with about twenty different types. I don't know how authentic to the various cities they were except for the Chicago dog which had a disparaging name attached to it (New York-Chicago throw down) like, "The Buttercup." For instance, the Boston one had beans. There was a Chihuahua dog that came in a tortilla. And even a couple dogs with peanut butter - the Thai Dog used a little bit of peanut butter in the sauce that went on it, and the Goofy Dog was just a regular hot dog with peanut butter on the bun. I tried them all over the better part of a year, saving the Goofy Dog for last, and it was actually pretty good.

TlalocW

[OriginalGeek]

10. Some of my best memories

eating hot dogs with my dad out in the bleachers at the old Arlington Stadium watching the Texas Rangers play (lose mostly but that's OK). I liked the ones from the steam box the guy would periodically bring by. That's all I really needed. Dad, the Rangers, and a red hot from a steam box.

Back then I only liked mustard but I'm far more adventurous now. Unfortunately there's no MLB park close enough to do it regularly. have had some decent dogs at some spring training/minor league parks though. But without Dad it ain't the same and none of my kids care anything about baseball.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

11. Mustard is important, too

Hot Dog discussions always remind me of this scene in "2010-The Year We Make Contact"

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