You're listening to the litter box a Detroit
Tigers podcast with your hosts Chet West and
Bill Patterson We got a new season upon us at
Comerica Park and I want to know what you're
most excited to see with Tiger baseball at home
this year Well chat, this is so easy. I am running
not walking to section 336 to get myself a tiger
tail It is a foot long corn dog that's hand battered,
rolled in cheese powder, topped with Coney chili,
not yellow mustard, Chet, but orange mustard.
Explain what that is to me in diced onions. Go
figure. You didn't answer with, oh, Kevin McGonagall
or Justin Verlander taking the mound again or
some great young player. It's a Tigerdale tail
foot long corn dog. I love it. That looks incredible.
Chet, I imagine my hands and face just being
cheesy like a three year old having their first
bag of Cheetos rolled in cheese powder. Mother
of God. You know, they're really going over the
top with a lot of these entrees. They have the
ballpark. What do you think of a pierogi nacho,
though, Bill? A potato and cheddar pierogi with
hatch chili queso. Polish kielbasa crumbles.
Caramelized onions and sauerkraut. Chet, I'm
only doing that if it comes with a helmet that
I can put on my kid after. Well, the picture
I'm looking at shows a Detroit Tigers helmet
housing this wonderful smorgasbord of what we
call this, the Polish nacho, the pierogi nacho.
I love it. And that is a bucket of stuff. I mean,
you've got queso in there, but then you've got
the kielbasa crumbles. Which who would have ever
thought to put kielbasa crumbles. It's made anything.
It's making my polish mouth water There's a little
something in section 328. That's very much overshadowed
by these two main items I this goes back to our
March Madness food off Yeah, it's a smoked bone
and short rib sandwich. Yep, and I give a ton
of credit I need to try it. It's a small, slow
smoked bone in short rib, a low taste slaw, which
trust me, I want to try a low taste slaw. That's
the draw. That's the tipping point for me on
this one. I know. I know. That's the draw. A
barbecue mayo on a Martin's potato roll, whatever.
Low taste slaw. I almost might eat that by itself.
Exactly. It sounds like a delicious side, but
this goes back to ballpark barbecue chat. I don't
think it's going to be that awesome. So I've
I was just about to say we discussed this in
a previous episode. I believe it was San Diego
has a has some sort of a barbecue item. They
were flaunting as a new item. Do you do you really
think that Detroit is doing barbecue well at
the ballpark? No, I had it last year with cousin
Nick when we went to the Padres games and it
was everything that I actually it's the only
time I've had. ballpark barbecue probably in
the last three seasons. And that's a lot of what
I based my final four review off of it's I mean,
slow smoked meat needs to be slow smoked. What
it doesn't need to do is sit under a heat lamp
and foil for When are they slow smoking that?
Like in February and then just kind of leaving
it sitting around to age? It is a bone in. At
least it's not something that, well, let's hope
it's not something that's been stamped out by
some meat stamper that look like a short rib,
like a McRib type thing. Yeah. Do you have any
love for the Sweet Heat Chicken Ranch at Breadless
in section 140? No. Apparently this is another
one of the local restaurant partners there. No.
Slows Barbecue, more barbecue, trying to do more
barbecue. That's who we had. That's who we had.
I mean, it's all over the place, the barbecue.
Slows is delicious, but my recommendation would
be go before or after the game and get it from
the source. Don't bother with the stadium, because
I do think it's sitting in warming trays for
too long. Can I throw a little bit of a curve
ball at your place? Please do. Do you know the
first team to have their own proprietary hot
dog, of course, was our Detroit Tigers with the
ballpark Frank. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But they have
slowly infiltrated with all beef hot dogs only
at the 100 level, but available at five different
sections where ballpark Franks are available.
all three levels throughout the park, which I
thought was interesting. So you've got a hunt
for the all beef. So check. It's just interesting
how they label this on their website. Classic
ballpark fair. It goes all beef, hot dogs, ballpark,
Franks, brats, cracker, Jack, nachos. And then
lo and behold, in more availability than anything
else that you'll find in the stadium. Our winner
from March food madness shelled. Peanuts or peanuts
in the shell? Peanuts in the shell, please. You
corrected me on that many times. Peanuts in the
shell. Chet, they are available pretty much everywhere
you can get food or beverages anywhere within
Co -America Park. Can I give you my oddest choice
for this year? You had a question for me, though.
Well, I got something that's popping up here.
Go. I'm reading the Freep's review of all the
new food this year, right? Yeah. And I'm scrolling
down the list here and I get down to section
119 at Taqueria El Rey. They have something called
a grilled cheese sonoran dog. No joke. Bacon
wrapped hot dog, beans pico de gallo, cojita
cheese on top of a grilled cheese bun. A sonoran
dog? Didn't we just talk about this thing in
Arizona? Is this gonna become a fad now where
everybody's gonna have a Sonoran dog? Yes, but
it sounds like they're cheating put in on a grilled
cheese It seems like they are. It's like they
said, you know, Arizona's got this really popular
Sonoran dog. What can we do? Yeah, let's put
it on grilled cheese Alright, so I'm gonna give
you the food that I would not eat. Okay Dubai
chocolate strawberries does not sound like ballpark
fare No, no, it doesn't. That's for people that
are at the ballpark for the first time and probably
never coming back. And they seem like, oh, those
look lovely. And can I also mention if you don't
want the Dubai chocolate, you can still get strawberries
both on the 100 level and the 300 level. Strawberries
at the ballpark just don't strike me as what
I want to eat at the ballpark. I love strawberries.
It's up there with like the barbecue meats and
stuff. Like I just, I don't know. Is this like
a taunt to Tom Brady? Cause he had to invest
in the tigers. Cause you know, he's never had
a strawberry. He's never had a strawberry. He's
never had a strawberry. Is it a strawberry and
a tomato or something like that? He doesn't eat.
It's just really weird. They do have a Guernsey
orange sherbet ice cream for you at the big cat
court. Does that peak your interest? That's,
that's probably right up there with a malt cup
in a lot of ways. An orange sherbet. You gotta
love your own sherbet. I mean, it's a palette
cleanser to say the least. All right. Here's
one for A little trivia for you. Chili cheese
fries are available at three. different locations,
yet a Coney dog is only available at two. So
Coney dogs being diminished chat at the ballpark.
I never thought it was really good ballpark fair.
It's too messy. And can I ask, how do you eat
your Coney? Are you a knife and fork guy or do
you just try to shovel it in your pie hole and
really deal with the repercussions? It honestly
depends on who I'm with. If I'm with like the
guys, I'm probably jamming it in the pie hole
and it's a mess. Probably get a little stain
on the shirt. walk around with it with pride.
If I'm with like my wife or people I want to
look, you know, somewhat appealing to, I'm eating
it with a knife and fork because there's no way
I'm not dousing myself in some of that sweet
sauce or that chili cheese or the chili or something
like that. It's it's a knife and fork for me.
Probably 50 50 depends. All right. Depends on
the mood. You see all the theme nights they're
having. Yeah. Did you dive into that? There's
a Greek heritage, a father's day, Hispanic heritage
and Irish heritage night. Do they have a Polish
heritage? They should if they don't. Do they
have a Polish heritage? Well, it is. It's every
day. It's every day. You've got the Perogianaccio.
It's every day. They're celebrating every day
with the Polish side of your nachos. Perogianaccio
every day. So the one I'm really intrigued about,
and I just want to do a joke, is that it's a
true story, but it's funny. Chet and I used to
take each other for our birthdays to a Cubs game,
and we used to call it father's day. And it meant
that the guy whose birthday it was got to order
whatever he wanted. And, you know, the other
guy paid the other guy paid. So it was like going
to the ballpark with your dad, taking his son
to the ballpark. And it was just a glorious day
to watch Chet do a lot of food, a lot of food
and a lot of indigestion afterwards. A lot of
peanuts in the shell or shelled peanuts and All
right, we're going to wrap this food one up and
I have a question mark and I need a Detroit listener
to get this one to us. At the 100 level, there
is something called a snap dog with onions. Don't
know what it is. A snap dog with onions. When
you bite them, do they snap? Is there an enhanced
casing around the meats? Is it a dog filled with
onions or the onions on the top? Like, I would
assume it's on the top. What happens if it's
not? What happens if it's like encased meat with
onion inside that snaps? Oh my word. They've
stuffed it with onions. How long have the onions
been in there? A lot of questions around the
snack dog with onions. Probably as long as the
malts have been frozen. The malt cups have been
frozen. That's never dying. All right. Thank
you for listening to the Detroit Tigers Litterbox.
We are your hosts, Bill and Chet. Go Tigers.
Go food. All right. That's gonna do it for this
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