nosh nook #137 - tuesday, september 22, 2009

stadium food? not so bad; in fact, many relish it (link)
09.21.09 - dallas morning news - by laurel laurentz

down in texas, if you're talking pro football, you're talking the dallas cowboys. sorry, houston, but you have a problem. your former team made it to a few conference championships, but your current team has yet to put together a winning season. the cowboys have been average at best recently, but they've won five super bowls & are "america's team." you're just the "texans." it's no contest, really. it'd tell you to put your hometown love behind the astros, but they've lost eight in a row & just fired manager cecil cooper yesterday. two weeks til the rockets preseason begins! oh wait. yao ming's out for the season. man. you houstonians can't catch a break, huh?

on sunday in dallas, the cowboys played their first game at their new stadium, an architectural behemoth that's the largest domed stadium in the world, capable of seating up to 111,000 people. since a live football game is even stupider without burgers & nachos & beers, the team has to be able to feed a ridiculous amount of cowboys fans for hours on end. according to the dallas morning news' laurel laurentz, a crowd of that size drinks/eats "about 7,000 gallons of soda; a ton (yup, 2,000 pounds) of nacho cheese; 40 tons of ice; and 7,500 pounds of beef for cowboys cheesesteak." there's even "the biggest beer cooler in texas," which holds "about a quarter-million bottles." i swear to god, they'd better have a legit recycling program at the stadium or i'll totally bust one of those stupid plastic bud light bottles over owner jerry jones' head.

laurel did the rounds at the stadium to find out "what's really good?" let me sum it up for you. ultimate nachos = great. bbq chicken sandwich = pretty decent, pretty good. truffled mac & cheese dishes = relished. angus burger = uncomplimentary reaction. chili cheese fries = really good. black angus burger = good. chili cheese fries #2 = really good. kobe burger = very good. philly sandwich = nothing but praise. green chili kobe burger = pretty good. pizza = good. bbq chicken sandwich #2 = good. seriously, cowboys fans. it's time to learn some adjectives. two-thirds of you described your football fare as "good." didn't you at least pick up one food adjective from one time texan melissa d’arabian on this past season of the next food network star? it only makes the fact that the cowboys blew the game on a last-second field goal that much worse.