At Miller Park, more sausages than hot dogs are sold
02.07.2008 05:02
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The hot dog is king in America’s ballparks, but brats and other sausages rule at Miller Park. The Milwaukee Brewers’ Miller Park is the only baseball stadium that sells more sausages than hot dogs, according to a national survey. That comes as no surprise to Tom Olson, the general manager of Sportservice, the Milwaukee Brewers’ concessionaire at Miller Park. “That’s true,” Olson said. “We have the brats, the Polish, the Italian and the chorizo. That’s four against one. At most ballparks, if you go, you only see the hot dogs and the kosher dogs and it ends at that.” The survey by the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council indicates that, nationwide, the hot dog remains fans’ favorite stadium fare. The group’s survey, conducted in June, shows 63% of those surveyed chose the hot dog as their favorite food. Peanuts ranked a distant second with 18%, followed by pizza, cotton candy and Cracker Jack. Wrigley Field and Yankee Stadium tied for first as home to the best stadium hot dog. Miller Park finished fifth, the council said. Fenway Park was second, Detroit’s Comerica Park took third and Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles ranked fourth. A total of 625 randomly selected sports fans were surveyed online by Opinion Dynamics, a Massachusetts market research firm. The margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage points. This year, Miller Park expects to sell approximately 350,000 hot dogs and 775,000 other sausages, which includes the brat, the Polish and the Italian. “The brat with kraut is their signature, as you are probably aware,” said Tom Super, a spokesman for the hot dog and sausage council. Yes we are, Tom. As with most other major-league parks, when a lengthy home stand is coming up, Sportservice’s Olson orders sausages by the skid. “We are never out of product,” he said. “If we think we need 50,000, I’ll order 70,000. We have large enough coolers on hand.” The council estimates that Americans will eat 7 billion hot dogs during the peak season, which runs from Memorial Day to Labor Day. And since part of Super’s job is to come up with the silliest statistic imaginable to illustrate the reach the hot dog has, chew on this: “For 2008, if you took every hot dog sold at all major league ballparks, laid end to end, it would round the bases 41,667 times,” Super said. “Enough to stretch from Nationals Park in D.C. to AT&T Park in San Francisco.” Here’s a look at what a sausage costs at Miller Park: Hot dogs: $3 Brats: $4.25 Polish: $4.25 Italian: $4.25 On the Web National Hot Dog & Sausage Council: www.hot-dog.org/
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