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April 6, 2009

Lobster corn dogs and more at Oriole Park

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Sometimes an e-mail will just make me laugh out loud, like one I got recently from Andy, which said in part:

Will ya just look at the 2nd to last new menu item at Oriole Park this season?  Lobster corn dogs?  It's bad enough we have to watch the team play but to be subjected to that too?  Sheesh!

I went to Aramark's Web site to check out the complete food offerings and found these: ...

NEW and INNOVATIVE menu items, offerings and promotions

• Monster nachos
• Blazin’ Cajun burger
• Chicken mole burrito
• Buffalo tossed chicken tenders
• Buffalo chicken bites
• Chicken tacos
• All-You-Can-Eat seats

Funny, I don't think I could eat even one seat. Bada-bing!

CLUB LEVEL and SUITE menu items and offerings

• Maryland-style jumbo lump crab cakes
• Maryland crab soup
• Fruit and yogurt parfait
• Tomato and basil salad
• Daily chef’s table in club level and at Pastimes Café
• Local farm-raised rotisserie half chicken with green beans and fresh-baked cornbread
• Homemade, gourmet cupcakes
• Fresh fruit cobbler
• Lobster corn dogs
• Steamed shrimp

I thought the following figures were kind of interesting, especially the ratio of hot dogs to hamburgers. Although considering the weather, this list is probably overly optimistic.

On OPENING DAY, fans are expected to consume

9,200 Hot Dogs
4,500 Pounds of French Fries
3,700 Soft Pretzels
2,600 Orders of Chicken Tenders
1,800 Bags of Peanuts
1,400 Sausage and Pepper Sandwiches
1,300 Orders of Nachos
700 Hamburgers
650 Slices of Pizza
650 Bags of Cotton Candy
375 Bags of Cracker Jack
100 Bags of Popcorn
40 Gallons of Ice Cream

1,400 Bottles of Water
1,500 Gallons of Soda
18,000 Pounds of Ice Used

(Amy Davis/Sun photographer)

Posted by Elizabeth Large at 11:00 AM | | Comments (14)
        

Comments

I don't know about lobster corn dogs, but I'd sure like it if we had All You Can Eat seats.

What, exactly, is lobster corn?

good zing in there
but what is the quantity of beer to be consumed?

Bucky,
The All You Can Eat Seats are in the outfield club level. For one price you can eat and drink all you want, but not beer.

Oh, and Kyle Orton???

Rob - I've been in the All You Can Seat section at...uh...an AL East stadium not named Camden. I thought it was a good deal. It was for me, anyway.

Yeah, we traded Jeff George for two #1 picks and they threw in a quarterback to sweeten the deal.

Once we got to sit in the club seats where you have wait staff, but not AYCE. The food was overpriced and terrible but I did like having my beverages brought right to me instead of passed down the line of drunks sitting beside me. And, it's air conditioned up there!

For a baseball fan such as myself (I use the binoculars to see if there's anyone I know in the stands) these seats are as close to heaven as it gets!

The food at Camden Yards is terrible and has even managed to get worse in the past few years if that's even possible. I wish they would do something about it but I doubt that will happen until attendance starts going up.

I also wish that Angelos would give up on telling the ushers to make people stick to their assigned seats for the poorly attended games. I think it's a little ridiculous to kick a family with young children out of field box level seats that are clearly unattended in the fifth inning on a night where the crowd can't even fill the lower deck. There's nothing sadder than seeing a kid who lights up at being so close to the players have the happiness drain out of his face when an usher boots the family back to the upper deck.

No figures on how much fruit and yogurt parfait they expect to serve, I see. Uh huh.


One thing you can count on from aramark, it will always cost more than it sounds good!

All-You-Can-Eat seats?

What does a seat taste like?

How many can one person eat?

Joyce,
You sat in the good club level seats. The last few sections of the club level, out in left are not good seats and are priced cheaper than the seats where you were.

To get people to sit there, they started the AYCE thing.

Bucky,
At this other stadium, was it at 161st Street and River Avenue?

Jeff George. LOL! Good one!

was it at 161st Street and River Avenue?

It was, but don't get the wrong idea. It was a "before it's torn down" trip, not a pilgrimage. I saw the last three innings of the O's smacking the Evil Empire last evening and it warmed the cockles of my usually cold heart.

I understand. I have been there once before too, it was like 10 years ago.

I enjoyed yesterday's game immensely, glad ESPN had it on.

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Richard Gorelick was appointed The Baltimore Sun's restaurant critic in September 2010. Before joining the paper staff fulltime, he contributed freelance criticism and features articles about food to area and regional publications. Along the way, he dispatched for short-distance trucking companies, shilled for cultural non-profits, and assisted in cognitive neurology research – never the subject, always the control.

He takes restaurants seriously but not himself, and his favorite restaurant is the one you love, too.
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