Eating at the game takes guts
As summer starts to come to an end, kids are getting ready to start back to school and all the baseball games are finally over, I now feel it?s safe to do a little complaining.
So, let me start out by saying, ?What?s up with ballpark food??
I spent almost every night this summer covering ball games, and rushing here and there, trying to cover as many ball games as possible, all I want is a decent hamburger or hot dog.
During the summer it is very hard for moms, dads and people like myself to sit down and eat a good meal. So we grab something at the ball parks while we watch our kids play ball. For some of us it is just something to hold us over until the ballgame is finished. But for a few of us, this is ?supper.?
Now I know the concession stands have to make money, but do they have to serve hamburgers that taste like plastic? Or do their hot dogs have to give you heartburn for two or three days?
I don?t know what?s in some of those hamburgers I have eaten over the summer ? and I don?t want to know. But the one thing I do know is I would rather pay an extra 25 or 50 cents to eat a good hamburger or hot dog than eat one of those cheap imitations.
And just how hard is it to cook popcorn? It seems every bag you get is burnt, or it has enough salt in it to dry your mouth out for days.
OK, I know the old trick: Put extra salt on the popcorn so you will sell more drinks. That?s fine, just don?t give me burnt corn.
Now I?m not saying all ballpark food is bad. But for the most part, it?s not that good, either.
Concession stands don?t have to serve chicken or steak. Just serve something we can eat that doesn?t leave a bad taste in our mouths.
I want to help support the programs through the sale of their concessions, and I have done so all summer. So if I?m willing to buy a hamburger or hot dog, give me a burger which is all meat.
If you?re going to serve food, at least try and make it as healthy as possible ? or at least as healthy as you can make a hamburger.
Some of you might say, ?Well, you don?t have to eat if you don?t like it.? You?re right, I don?t. But I can either try and support the programs and buy their food or I can turn my back, starve for a couple of hours and eat supper at 10 o?clock at night.
I?m not asking for the impossible here. It doesn?t cost that much more to buy fresh hamburger meat or buy hot dogs with real meat in them, instead of those things that have so much red dye in them they stain your teeth.
If you spend every night at the ball parks and have to eat your supper there, I?m sure some of you feel the same way I do. And one thing I have noticed this summer is you don?t see many of the people eating the food they?re selling at the park. This should be a sign to all of us. They know what?s in that hamburger or hotdog ? and it ain?t 100 percent real meat.
Now, some of this maybe a little exaggerated. I?m just trying to make a point if you?re going to sell food to hungry, desperate people, give them a real hamburger or hot dog. I know I sure would appreciate it.
Who knows? Maybe if the food was a little better, they would sell twice the amount they normally would. People might actually want to grab a burger at the ballpark if it?s a good one.
But if they?re going to sell the same old stomach busters, they should at least sell Rolaids, too!