WEBVTT 00:00:02.540 --> 00:00:05.480 You're listening to the litter box a Detroit 00:00:05.480 --> 00:00:09.560 Tigers podcast with your hosts Chet West and 00:00:09.560 --> 00:00:14.900 Bill Patterson We got a new season upon us at 00:00:14.900 --> 00:00:18.440 Comerica Park and I want to know what you're 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:22.660 most excited to see with Tiger baseball at home 00:00:22.660 --> 00:00:27.460 this year Well chat, this is so easy. I am running 00:00:27.460 --> 00:00:31.699 not walking to section 336 to get myself a tiger 00:00:31.699 --> 00:00:37.880 tail It is a foot long corn dog that's hand battered, 00:00:37.979 --> 00:00:41.899 rolled in cheese powder, topped with Coney chili, 00:00:42.740 --> 00:00:44.979 not yellow mustard, Chet, but orange mustard. 00:00:44.979 --> 00:00:48.600 Explain what that is to me in diced onions. Go 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:51.920 figure. You didn't answer with, oh, Kevin McGonagall 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:54.920 or Justin Verlander taking the mound again or 00:00:54.920 --> 00:00:58.579 some great young player. It's a Tigerdale tail 00:00:58.579 --> 00:01:03.850 foot long corn dog. I love it. That looks incredible. 00:01:04.209 --> 00:01:08.030 Chet, I imagine my hands and face just being 00:01:08.030 --> 00:01:10.650 cheesy like a three year old having their first 00:01:10.650 --> 00:01:14.549 bag of Cheetos rolled in cheese powder. Mother 00:01:14.549 --> 00:01:18.150 of God. You know, they're really going over the 00:01:18.150 --> 00:01:21.849 top with a lot of these entrees. They have the 00:01:21.849 --> 00:01:24.629 ballpark. What do you think of a pierogi nacho, 00:01:24.709 --> 00:01:28.250 though, Bill? A potato and cheddar pierogi with 00:01:28.250 --> 00:01:33.090 hatch chili queso. Polish kielbasa crumbles. 00:01:33.450 --> 00:01:36.250 Caramelized onions and sauerkraut. Chet, I'm 00:01:36.250 --> 00:01:38.250 only doing that if it comes with a helmet that 00:01:38.250 --> 00:01:40.269 I can put on my kid after. Well, the picture 00:01:40.269 --> 00:01:42.510 I'm looking at shows a Detroit Tigers helmet 00:01:42.510 --> 00:01:46.750 housing this wonderful smorgasbord of what we 00:01:46.750 --> 00:01:50.469 call this, the Polish nacho, the pierogi nacho. 00:01:50.650 --> 00:01:55.189 I love it. And that is a bucket of stuff. I mean, 00:01:55.250 --> 00:01:57.629 you've got queso in there, but then you've got 00:01:57.629 --> 00:02:00.430 the kielbasa crumbles. Which who would have ever 00:02:00.430 --> 00:02:03.489 thought to put kielbasa crumbles. It's made anything. 00:02:03.489 --> 00:02:06.829 It's making my polish mouth water There's a little 00:02:06.829 --> 00:02:11.229 something in section 328. That's very much overshadowed 00:02:11.229 --> 00:02:16.270 by these two main items I this goes back to our 00:02:16.270 --> 00:02:19.789 March Madness food off Yeah, it's a smoked bone 00:02:19.789 --> 00:02:24.310 and short rib sandwich. Yep, and I give a ton 00:02:24.310 --> 00:02:28.300 of credit I need to try it. It's a small, slow 00:02:28.300 --> 00:02:31.780 smoked bone in short rib, a low taste slaw, which 00:02:31.780 --> 00:02:36.159 trust me, I want to try a low taste slaw. That's 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:38.319 the draw. That's the tipping point for me on 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:41.039 this one. I know. I know. That's the draw. A 00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:43.580 barbecue mayo on a Martin's potato roll, whatever. 00:02:44.099 --> 00:02:47.020 Low taste slaw. I almost might eat that by itself. 00:02:47.180 --> 00:02:49.580 Exactly. It sounds like a delicious side, but 00:02:49.580 --> 00:02:52.759 this goes back to ballpark barbecue chat. I don't 00:02:52.759 --> 00:02:55.199 think it's going to be that awesome. So I've 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:58.479 I was just about to say we discussed this in 00:02:58.479 --> 00:03:01.180 a previous episode. I believe it was San Diego 00:03:01.180 --> 00:03:03.580 has a has some sort of a barbecue item. They 00:03:03.580 --> 00:03:07.539 were flaunting as a new item. Do you do you really 00:03:07.539 --> 00:03:11.840 think that Detroit is doing barbecue well at 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:14.500 the ballpark? No, I had it last year with cousin 00:03:14.500 --> 00:03:18.819 Nick when we went to the Padres games and it 00:03:18.819 --> 00:03:21.039 was everything that I actually it's the only 00:03:21.039 --> 00:03:23.460 time I've had. ballpark barbecue probably in 00:03:23.460 --> 00:03:25.979 the last three seasons. And that's a lot of what 00:03:25.979 --> 00:03:31.300 I based my final four review off of it's I mean, 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:34.080 slow smoked meat needs to be slow smoked. What 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:36.659 it doesn't need to do is sit under a heat lamp 00:03:36.659 --> 00:03:40.500 and foil for When are they slow smoking that? 00:03:40.979 --> 00:03:43.639 Like in February and then just kind of leaving 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:46.759 it sitting around to age? It is a bone in. At 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:48.680 least it's not something that, well, let's hope 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:50.520 it's not something that's been stamped out by 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:53.219 some meat stamper that look like a short rib, 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:57.060 like a McRib type thing. Yeah. Do you have any 00:03:57.060 --> 00:04:00.620 love for the Sweet Heat Chicken Ranch at Breadless 00:04:00.620 --> 00:04:03.060 in section 140? No. Apparently this is another 00:04:03.060 --> 00:04:05.759 one of the local restaurant partners there. No. 00:04:05.900 --> 00:04:08.280 Slows Barbecue, more barbecue, trying to do more 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:09.780 barbecue. That's who we had. That's who we had. 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:12.460 I mean, it's all over the place, the barbecue. 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:15.159 Slows is delicious, but my recommendation would 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:17.879 be go before or after the game and get it from 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:20.680 the source. Don't bother with the stadium, because 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:23.019 I do think it's sitting in warming trays for 00:04:23.019 --> 00:04:26.990 too long. Can I throw a little bit of a curve 00:04:26.990 --> 00:04:30.389 ball at your place? Please do. Do you know the 00:04:30.389 --> 00:04:34.730 first team to have their own proprietary hot 00:04:34.730 --> 00:04:38.310 dog, of course, was our Detroit Tigers with the 00:04:38.310 --> 00:04:42.089 ballpark Frank. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But they have 00:04:42.089 --> 00:04:46.970 slowly infiltrated with all beef hot dogs only 00:04:46.970 --> 00:04:50.610 at the 100 level, but available at five different 00:04:50.610 --> 00:04:53.290 sections where ballpark Franks are available. 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:55.939 all three levels throughout the park, which I 00:04:55.939 --> 00:04:57.420 thought was interesting. So you've got a hunt 00:04:57.420 --> 00:05:00.519 for the all beef. So check. It's just interesting 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:03.160 how they label this on their website. Classic 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:05.639 ballpark fair. It goes all beef, hot dogs, ballpark, 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:11.139 Franks, brats, cracker, Jack, nachos. And then 00:05:11.139 --> 00:05:14.720 lo and behold, in more availability than anything 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:17.540 else that you'll find in the stadium. Our winner 00:05:17.540 --> 00:05:22.209 from March food madness shelled. Peanuts or peanuts 00:05:22.209 --> 00:05:24.949 in the shell? Peanuts in the shell, please. You 00:05:24.949 --> 00:05:27.750 corrected me on that many times. Peanuts in the 00:05:27.750 --> 00:05:31.610 shell. Chet, they are available pretty much everywhere 00:05:31.610 --> 00:05:37.949 you can get food or beverages anywhere within 00:05:37.949 --> 00:05:43.430 Co -America Park. Can I give you my oddest choice 00:05:43.430 --> 00:05:45.509 for this year? You had a question for me, though. 00:05:45.509 --> 00:05:47.569 Well, I got something that's popping up here. 00:05:47.610 --> 00:05:49.910 Go. I'm reading the Freep's review of all the 00:05:49.910 --> 00:05:52.110 new food this year, right? Yeah. And I'm scrolling 00:05:52.110 --> 00:05:54.430 down the list here and I get down to section 00:05:54.430 --> 00:05:58.550 119 at Taqueria El Rey. They have something called 00:05:58.550 --> 00:06:04.370 a grilled cheese sonoran dog. No joke. Bacon 00:06:04.370 --> 00:06:07.949 wrapped hot dog, beans pico de gallo, cojita 00:06:07.949 --> 00:06:13.370 cheese on top of a grilled cheese bun. A sonoran 00:06:13.370 --> 00:06:17.680 dog? Didn't we just talk about this thing in 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:20.120 Arizona? Is this gonna become a fad now where 00:06:20.120 --> 00:06:22.480 everybody's gonna have a Sonoran dog? Yes, but 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:24.420 it sounds like they're cheating put in on a grilled 00:06:24.420 --> 00:06:27.839 cheese It seems like they are. It's like they 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:29.980 said, you know, Arizona's got this really popular 00:06:29.980 --> 00:06:32.939 Sonoran dog. What can we do? Yeah, let's put 00:06:32.939 --> 00:06:35.759 it on grilled cheese Alright, so I'm gonna give 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:40.339 you the food that I would not eat. Okay Dubai 00:06:40.339 --> 00:06:43.699 chocolate strawberries does not sound like ballpark 00:06:43.699 --> 00:06:46.949 fare No, no, it doesn't. That's for people that 00:06:46.949 --> 00:06:48.930 are at the ballpark for the first time and probably 00:06:48.930 --> 00:06:50.769 never coming back. And they seem like, oh, those 00:06:50.769 --> 00:06:54.829 look lovely. And can I also mention if you don't 00:06:54.829 --> 00:06:57.290 want the Dubai chocolate, you can still get strawberries 00:06:57.290 --> 00:07:00.689 both on the 100 level and the 300 level. Strawberries 00:07:00.689 --> 00:07:02.529 at the ballpark just don't strike me as what 00:07:02.529 --> 00:07:05.310 I want to eat at the ballpark. I love strawberries. 00:07:05.329 --> 00:07:08.290 It's up there with like the barbecue meats and 00:07:08.290 --> 00:07:11.379 stuff. Like I just, I don't know. Is this like 00:07:11.379 --> 00:07:14.259 a taunt to Tom Brady? Cause he had to invest 00:07:14.259 --> 00:07:16.019 in the tigers. Cause you know, he's never had 00:07:16.019 --> 00:07:17.920 a strawberry. He's never had a strawberry. He's 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:19.459 never had a strawberry. Is it a strawberry and 00:07:19.459 --> 00:07:21.300 a tomato or something like that? He doesn't eat. 00:07:21.300 --> 00:07:23.279 It's just really weird. They do have a Guernsey 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:25.500 orange sherbet ice cream for you at the big cat 00:07:25.500 --> 00:07:27.699 court. Does that peak your interest? That's, 00:07:27.699 --> 00:07:29.759 that's probably right up there with a malt cup 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:34.100 in a lot of ways. An orange sherbet. You gotta 00:07:34.100 --> 00:07:36.019 love your own sherbet. I mean, it's a palette 00:07:36.019 --> 00:07:38.199 cleanser to say the least. All right. Here's 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:43.000 one for A little trivia for you. Chili cheese 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:46.079 fries are available at three. different locations, 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:50.579 yet a Coney dog is only available at two. So 00:07:50.579 --> 00:07:53.920 Coney dogs being diminished chat at the ballpark. 00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:56.360 I never thought it was really good ballpark fair. 00:07:56.459 --> 00:07:59.800 It's too messy. And can I ask, how do you eat 00:07:59.800 --> 00:08:02.100 your Coney? Are you a knife and fork guy or do 00:08:02.100 --> 00:08:04.399 you just try to shovel it in your pie hole and 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:06.800 really deal with the repercussions? It honestly 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:09.160 depends on who I'm with. If I'm with like the 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:11.120 guys, I'm probably jamming it in the pie hole 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:13.279 and it's a mess. Probably get a little stain 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:16.019 on the shirt. walk around with it with pride. 00:08:16.379 --> 00:08:19.300 If I'm with like my wife or people I want to 00:08:19.300 --> 00:08:22.560 look, you know, somewhat appealing to, I'm eating 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:25.199 it with a knife and fork because there's no way 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:27.720 I'm not dousing myself in some of that sweet 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:30.600 sauce or that chili cheese or the chili or something 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:33.320 like that. It's it's a knife and fork for me. 00:08:33.419 --> 00:08:35.879 Probably 50 50 depends. All right. Depends on 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:37.879 the mood. You see all the theme nights they're 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:40.500 having. Yeah. Did you dive into that? There's 00:08:40.500 --> 00:08:42.639 a Greek heritage, a father's day, Hispanic heritage 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:46.049 and Irish heritage night. Do they have a Polish 00:08:46.049 --> 00:08:48.590 heritage? They should if they don't. Do they 00:08:48.590 --> 00:08:50.370 have a Polish heritage? Well, it is. It's every 00:08:50.370 --> 00:08:52.669 day. It's every day. You've got the Perogianaccio. 00:08:52.669 --> 00:08:54.850 It's every day. They're celebrating every day 00:08:54.850 --> 00:08:57.750 with the Polish side of your nachos. Perogianaccio 00:08:57.750 --> 00:09:00.929 every day. So the one I'm really intrigued about, 00:09:00.990 --> 00:09:05.169 and I just want to do a joke, is that it's a 00:09:05.169 --> 00:09:08.490 true story, but it's funny. Chet and I used to 00:09:08.490 --> 00:09:10.929 take each other for our birthdays to a Cubs game, 00:09:10.929 --> 00:09:14.129 and we used to call it father's day. And it meant 00:09:14.129 --> 00:09:16.409 that the guy whose birthday it was got to order 00:09:16.409 --> 00:09:18.750 whatever he wanted. And, you know, the other 00:09:18.750 --> 00:09:21.250 guy paid the other guy paid. So it was like going 00:09:21.250 --> 00:09:22.870 to the ballpark with your dad, taking his son 00:09:22.870 --> 00:09:26.669 to the ballpark. And it was just a glorious day 00:09:26.669 --> 00:09:29.990 to watch Chet do a lot of food, a lot of food 00:09:29.990 --> 00:09:32.850 and a lot of indigestion afterwards. A lot of 00:09:32.850 --> 00:09:36.549 peanuts in the shell or shelled peanuts and All 00:09:36.549 --> 00:09:38.809 right, we're going to wrap this food one up and 00:09:38.809 --> 00:09:41.490 I have a question mark and I need a Detroit listener 00:09:41.490 --> 00:09:45.250 to get this one to us. At the 100 level, there 00:09:45.250 --> 00:09:48.990 is something called a snap dog with onions. Don't 00:09:48.990 --> 00:09:52.450 know what it is. A snap dog with onions. When 00:09:52.450 --> 00:09:55.169 you bite them, do they snap? Is there an enhanced 00:09:55.169 --> 00:09:58.970 casing around the meats? Is it a dog filled with 00:09:58.970 --> 00:10:01.710 onions or the onions on the top? Like, I would 00:10:01.710 --> 00:10:04.590 assume it's on the top. What happens if it's 00:10:04.590 --> 00:10:06.549 not? What happens if it's like encased meat with 00:10:06.549 --> 00:10:09.649 onion inside that snaps? Oh my word. They've 00:10:09.649 --> 00:10:11.830 stuffed it with onions. How long have the onions 00:10:11.830 --> 00:10:14.690 been in there? A lot of questions around the 00:10:14.690 --> 00:10:16.230 snack dog with onions. Probably as long as the 00:10:16.230 --> 00:10:18.429 malts have been frozen. The malt cups have been 00:10:18.429 --> 00:10:22.169 frozen. That's never dying. All right. Thank 00:10:22.169 --> 00:10:25.049 you for listening to the Detroit Tigers Litterbox. 00:10:25.230 --> 00:10:27.909 We are your hosts, Bill and Chet. Go Tigers. 00:10:28.149 --> 00:10:34.820 Go food. All right. That's gonna do it for this 00:10:34.820 --> 00:10:37.679 episode of the Litterbox, a Detroit Tigers podcast. 00:10:37.940 --> 00:10:40.240 Thanks for hanging out with us. We're Bill and 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:42.559 Chet. We'll be back soon with more Tigers Talk. 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:45.379 If you're enjoying the show, be sure to follow 00:10:45.379 --> 00:10:49.279 or subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:52.139 you get your podcasts. And hey, if you got a 00:10:52.139 --> 00:10:55.759 minute, leave us a quick review. Till next time, 00:10:56.019 --> 00:10:56.679 go Tigers.