Slate's Neal Pollack on the All You Can Eat Pavilion in Dodger Stadium
http://www.slate.com/id/2164464/fr/fl...
An excerpt:
Dodger management has obviously not geared the pavilion toward food yuppies like myself. Before many games last season I bought a tray of cheese, sausage, pâté, olives, and fruit from a gourmet store in Silver Lake. I took some ribbing in the stands, sure. But my food tasted a lot better than the crap they serve up at the stadium, and it cost me a lot less. The only stadium food I'll touch is a soft pretzel, a malt cup, and a bottle of water. I don't drink beer at the park, preferring the more legally risky but cost-effective strategy of intoxicating myself in the parking lot. And If I must consume sausage, I skip the flaccidly overrated Dodger Dog and get myself a solid bratwurst at the Gordon Biersch stand.
PaulF
May 09, 2007 08:48AM
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Is the Dodger Dog now "flaccid"???
When I lived in Los Angeles, they always had good "snap." And I remember as a kid, greatly enjoying using those weird (but effective) "onion grinding" boxes to get the onions on the dog. (Hound from WAY back.:)
In any case, Dodger Dogs were never match for the sausages at The Red Lion before a game.
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dodger dogs aren't that great to begin with, but the super dodger dog is more edible then the regular one.
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If intoxication is your only goal, why drink beer, must be cheaper to buy a bottle of booze - and it will get you there quicker, and you could smuggle it in easier than beer.
Sometimes its not about the quality of the food or the beer even (I can't believe I just said that), but the experience of watching the game with a dog and a beer or other ball park snacks. You could just stay home, eat your snack plate, drink the beer of your choice, sit in a comfortable chair, and get a better view of the game on the TV, but it just isn't the same is it.
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