Oakland Coliseum--A day at the park
Summertime can always be associated with no school, warm weather, and also the plethora of baseball games. In the spirit of summertime, many of my friends and I attended a game at Oakland Coliseum against the Chicago White Sox. The stadium was crowded and as soon as I entered I could smell the familiar smell of hotdogs and beer mixed into one big melting pot, symbolizing one thing to my mind. "Here goes my workout in the morning...."
The one thing you have to remember is that in any sporting event you will be doing two things.
1. Gaining at least 2 pounds while you're there....healthy baseball food is an oxymoron
2. You will be paying more than you can imagine for items that generally cost pennies at grocery stores.
Therefore...I did a most sensible thing in attempting to take four cans of coke in so that I would be able to refill my cokes rather than spending an extra five dollars. However, security seemed to catch on to my scheme and confiscated my four stolen cans of coke from work.
The cool air was refreshing in the 8 dollar seats that we purchased in the third deck. By the third inning...we were beginning to hear our stomachs growl over the sounds of the loud spectator yelling "25! You suck!" My friend and I decided to make the run to get a Saags sausage, a signature item at the Coliseum. The line was long but we knew that it would be worth the wait. After getting to the front of the line and missing 2 innings, I proceeded to order one italian sausage with peppers. However, they seemed to run out of onions and peppers which completely defeats the purpose of saags signature dish. I figured at least I would be able to put my own condiments on it to make it a worthy meal. Each $5.50 sausage and $3.75 coke really did not make it a cheap meal.
Topped wtih onions, relish, mustard and catsup (i like using catsup), I knew that it would taste pretty good. I enjoyed the sausage as it was a little spicy but before I knew it, I had finished it. As much as I enjoyed my 6 dollar sausage, I didn't savor it enough to get the value of it.
I also had an opportunity to taste garlic fries that my friend got and was not impressed. Generally, garlic fries are doused with garlic and everytime you take one you just dip yourself in that stuff. Lightly salted, the garlic fries lacked the garlic and became ordinary fries.
Recommendations
If you eat beef...go on a Wednesday and go for $1 hot dogs. Get four. That makes it quality. If not, stick with the sausage and get the italian sausage. Definitely better than any of the other ones that I have tried on previous experiences. And for those who don't eat pork or beef, get the chicken parmesian...Anjali can tell you about that, she had one.
For Dessert I would get one of those cookie ice cream bars. Two cookies with vanilla ice cream in the middle...quite tasty. It's $3.75 but its worth it there.
Also bring snacks with you and buy one thing if you want to save money. It works really well.
Overall Rating
STARS- three/5
HEALTH- fat galore
Price- $$ ( its a baseball game c'mon)
GO OAKLAND A's THO.....awesome team..
suchit
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home