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1. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: April 15, 2014 at 01:50 PM (#4686445)This is the universal longing of all men of good breeding.
He had a hat made of nacho chips, with cheese poured in the top (IIRC).
This looks delicious, although I assume the chips near the bottom would be a soggy mess. That's my only real issue with nachos - if you get them with the cheese on the side, so you can control your cheese distribution and avoid the oversaturated, limp chip problem, then they're terrific.
So you are saying that a Sombrero is probably the best way to have a nacho hat.
Whenever I see the word nacho in print, or hear the word spoken, my mind immediately springs forward to thoughts about proper breeding.
And grooming,
For us kids who grew up in the 1950's, or BN (before nachos) we felt the same way about Spam.
Still do.
"Spam, spam, spam, eggs and spam"!
I can say with certainty that Spachos would be the vilest thing on the planet.
My own weakness at Padres games is the Phil's BBQ which is just heavenly. If it wasn't already my #1 choice at games before, it distanced itself from other concession stands here because they use Phil's actual employees...and not the stadium concession employees who are...not sure how to describe it.
Let's put it this way - so far this year, at every Padres game I've been to (like half a dozen) -if you order food at a regular concession stand, you know - a hot dog, a burger, whatever - the time to get your food - not starting from having to wait in a long line, but the time between actually ordering the food and actually receiving the food - has often been almost half an hour. That's inexcusable. I've talked to several other people and they have experienced the same thing. The concession stands are horribly disorganized. I ordered a slider, watched the guy grill the meat, pull it off the grill...then it was another 20 minutes before the buns and fixings showed up - by which time the meat, of course, was cold. Abysmal. Imagine standing in line for almost half an hour with people asking you "Excuse me, are you in line?" To which all you can reply is "No, just STILL waiting for my order".
It took my wife 15 minutes just to get a glass of wine. It's really bad this year. I don't know why it would take so much longer than past years, but it seems to be the way it is.
So I'm becoming a regular Phil's BBQ customer as, at least when I get food there, I'm ordering, paying for and receiving food all within 5 minutes, which is as it should be.
Now that I think of it - question for Primates in other cities - the Padres have gone electronic this year. I no longer have to bring tickets to the game, I just have a card they scan to let me in the games. Have any other teams done this? Are we ahead of or behind the curve in other cities?
Depends on how many fingers are in, um, the hat. I've never seen one of these creations so I don't know what all is in the hat or how large it is but I wouldn't be shocked if the actual food part of this cost between 1 to 2 dollars. The hat itself is probably several times more expensive than the actual food that is in it. After those things I don't really know the other costs. Labor, taxes, lease agreements, utilities, licensing, so on and so on.
They range in size, from Otis Nixon up to Kevin Mench. The Mench is only recommended for the heartiest of eaters.
What's the cost of the cheap, crap batting helmet these days? Is it cheaper to buy the helmet and the nachos without helmet or are you reducing the marginal cost of the nachos (or helmet)? Or does this helmet not even meet cheap, crap batting helmet standard these days? How much for nachos in a game-used batting helmet?
We don't have the overhead view but those nachos don't seem to be swimming in cheesy, salsa-y, goo-y, greasy goodness -- it looks like a helmet full of cardboard corn chips and some jalapensos.
Let Mr Bonds ask his own questions
I love the limp soggy cheese-soaked chips. I go out of my way to stick a few chips in there to soften up while I eat some crispy ones.
Just for fun, I looked up the wholesale costs I could get on these crappy products for my restaurants.
A #10 can of nacho cheese sauce costs about $8 - so 4 ounces of it would be something like 30 cents. A pound of tortilla chips is about $1.80. Not sure how much they fit into the helmet, maybe 4-6 ounces? A #10 can of sliced jalapenos is about $7 - this is maybe 10 cents per portion. And Aramark or Sodexo or whoever the monstrous company is that controls the concessions at Yankee Stadium gets better prices than I do.
No idea on the helmet, sadly.
By far, my most-missed facet of Milwaukee County Stadium is the helmet stand. They used to sell every plastic batting helmet in MLB for the same $5 it cost a decade-and-a-half earlier. It was a rotisserie league tradition every year to go to the Brewers game and buy the team batting helmet of the player who was the most pleasant surprise on your team. When the new stadium opened up, it was all Brewers helmets all the time.
I rather enjoyed being the only guy in Wisconsin in 1999 wearing a Pirates batting helmet in tribute to Ed Sprague.
And I'm going to guess they weren't $5 either.
What always amused me was buying pop at a fast food restaurant. You know how they always fill your cup to the brim with ice to give you the least amount of pop possible? Of cup, ice, and pop the pop is by far the cheapest and the ice is the most expensive.
Yeah, but the point is to make you finish the soda more quickly so that you'll then keep ordering refills. But anyway, don't many or most fast food restaurants these days just sell you cups that you can fill yourself however you wish?
I use a glass pie plate for one, which holds the heat well so the nachos stay hot until you are finished.
I usually start with organic corn chips, then add grated medium cheddar or Monterrey Jack cheese, chopped cooked chicken breast that I season with ground cumin, s&p, lime juice and either smoked paprika or some kind of ground, smoked chile like Ancho, New Mexico, Chipotle, and/or Negro.
Then add some chopped fresh green onions, jalapenos and tomato, and put in a 400° oven for 10 minutes or so.
I serve them with sour cream, homemade salsa and homemade guacamole.
A nutritious and delicious meal!
I sometimes use chili or seasoned steak strips instead of chicken.
Boy, ain't that the truth. Everything in that city got more expensive when Miller Park opened up. It's still cheap by Chicago standards, but it used to be like the old Lewis Black joke: "Apparently, you people in Wisconsin have some sort of federal grant for drinking... Even with the cost of the plane ticket, it's cheaper to drink here than in New York."
the market dynamic worked against the end user experience.
sigh
But...not $20 nachos.
The worst concession, sadly because it should be the best, is almost always the hot dog, unless it's dollar dog night. They steam the dog, wrap it up and stick it in a warmer, so you're almost always getting a soggy, lukewarm dog. Even famed ones like Dodger Dogs. Is there any park that makes a real (grilled, within at least the last 5 minutes) hot dog anymore?
I've got a couple of those -- well, they held Icees, not ice cream -- from old Ray Winder Field in Little Rock in the '90s. Every now & then I try to get one of my cats to wear one, to no avail.
Or maybe they just don't like the Cards or Marlins.
Certain stands at Dodger Stadium have grilled Dodger Dogs. I doubt it's within 5 minutes, though.
I will agree that at certain stadiums, Nachos are the best value. Years ago, an old pal and I would make a trip to the Oakland Coliseum to see the Broncos-Raiders game (we're from southern ca) and the nachos were the best value on the menu.
Dairy Queen has been doing the soft serve in batting helmets since at least the very 80's. Don't know if they did it before then as I wasn't kid before that.
Moe,
It's really worse than past years? I've taken in games at Petco sporadically since the stadium opened and it has always seemed like the "regular" concession stands are awful.
Before I go again, how is the Stone thing at Petco?* It always upset when I made my way down there that Stone wasn't represented all that well at the park. What about Hodad's at Petco? I know the one in OB is freaking awesome beyond belief.
* Totally realize that you gotta serve the BMC (Bud, Miller, Coors) stuff but it seemed like Petco was woefully short on the craft offerings last time I was down there. No Karl Strauss (Red Trolley Ale is still a favorite) and even finding a Stone IPA was tough.
There is no way I'd pay $20 for nachos if it didn't come with at least guacamole, beans, sour cream, protein of some kind, and salsa. It always blows my mind that people will spend 8 dollars or more for fried corn tortillas, processed cheese like goop, and few slices of pickled peppers..
I actually had a terrific hot dog for dinner last night from a place called Burger Meister. They split the dog and grilled it, and also grilled the bun. Probably the best hot dog I've had in years.
(My dining companion was not at all impressed by the burger. Maybe they should change their name to Weiner Meister.)
Ohhhhh, THAT's where I got all those. I knew I got some from Wrigley, but I couldn't for the life of me remember where all the other ones came from, since as a kid I'd only been to Wrigley and Milwaukee County.
I'm in Rochester now. Hot dog ("hots")-specific restaurants are a thing here.
You have to be a real ####### pig to eat a batting helmet full of soft serve ice cream.
That's pretty much how you do half-smokes as well. Really tastey.
So does that make is Schroedinger's joke or the Heisenberg uncertainty joke?
Damn you and your garbage plate proximity. I haven't had one in probably 15 years, and it's a fond, fond memory.
Is Gitsis still around?
There is a whole craft beer stand now on the main level (first base side, if I remember correctly). They have lots of local offerings so I'm sure you'll find one to your liking.
They have a Hodad's at Petco now, on the second level - I've been there once and it was ok. It's not going to be as good as the original restaurant in Ocean Beach (what is?), but it's ok. Good for a change of pace every now and then.
The regular concessions are just completely screwed up now. They've gone from bad to worse. One thing that's interesting - Randy Jones BBQ used to be in the "Park at the Park" but he moved into the main concourse with multiple stands which is what allowed Phil's BBQ to come into the "Park at the Park". I don't know how RJ's going to keep that going for two reasons:
1)Phil's BBQ is way way way better than RJ's so if I'm in the mood for BBQ I'm not going to RJs
2)RJ's stands are some of the ones getting the most complaints now about abysmally bad service
This remains incredible. I know consumers/sports fans put up with a lot of crap, but is there no one complaining about this? No talk at all about it in the area?
But, aside from occasionally getting a double at no extra charge from the cocktail stand (gotta ask nicely), it's still the best value (except on the value deck where you get a tiny cardboard box with the cheese directly on the (top layer of) chips for just $1 less).
What exactly is the demographic they're targeting with these things?
That does sound like a "no one goes there anymore, it's too crowded" type of situation.
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