Ben's chili Bowl

[spidernat]

Maybe it's a generational "thing" but I don't understand going to the stadium for cuisine and craft beer.   All that stuff is decoration.

I keep promising myself I'm going to check out Shake Shack sometime (those chips they serve look scrumptious)...but those queues are just a bit much.

They don't have chips but they serve fries.    Avoid the cheese fries. They were nothing more than ore ida golden crinkles with poop cheese melted on top.

Their shakes are average too. But I tried the smokeshack with the cherry peppers. It was quite good.

[tomterp]

They don't have chips but they serve fries.   

"Chips" is British for "fries".     
 
 You know Old Chelsea, he's incorrigible.

I was once standing in line at McDonalds in Windsor, England, 100 yards from the main entrance of the castle, and watched an older guy take a bag of fries back to the counter to complain.  "These chips is cold, they is"  he said.   I wanted to go over and shake him up and let him know that 1) those are french fries, not chips, and 2) they isn't cold, they ARE cold.

 

[spidernat]

  wpa is going to rip you for being the grammar nazi.

And yeah I realize that Madonna I mean Old Chlesea is incorrigible. I was just messing with him.

[mitlen]

For me it's not a generational thing, it's a price thing.  I just can't bring myself to pay $8.00 or $8.50 for a beer.  I get a couple of $5.00 beers at the scoreboard walk before the game and that's it.

I stop at the Loft then the $5 beers.   LOL     After that  ....   ummmmm I can't remember.

[spidernat]

What are the $5 beers?

[mitlen]

What are the $5 beers?

I think they're Miller Lite draft at the scoreboard.   It's crowded with lots of folks from Yuppietucky.

[spidernat]

OK. That's where hammonds hangs out.    Pass on draft beer.

[tomterp]

What are the $5 beers?

Before games over at the Scoreboard Walk bar.  If you're hanging at the Loft it's not a bad walk over and back, though mid-season last year they stopped selling Stella at that price, from then on had Miller Lite only.   

[Baseball is Life]

Before games over at the Scoreboard Walk bar.  If you're hanging at the Loft it's not a bad walk over and back, though mid-season last year they stopped selling Stella at that price, from then on had Miller Lite only.   

$5 until the first pitch.

[spidernat]

though mid-season last year they stopped selling Stella at that price,     

WHAT! That's a fabulous deal if they still had it. Stella is $9 during games. Will probably go up this season. 

Anyway, I thought the hike from the Loft to the Miller Scoreboard Walk involved a ton of stairways.

[lastobjective]

IMO 5 Guys > Shake Shack

Yes. The burgers are fine but I'd rather have a 5 Guys. Not like I go to either vary often, however.

Anyways, bringing your own food to the park is the way to go... never have to give up my seat 

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Didn't the Scoreboard have real cheap Pilsner Urquell cans for a while last year?

[mitlen]

Anyway, I thought the hike from the Loft to the Miller Scoreboard Walk involved a ton of stairways.

They're on the same concourse level I believe.

[PowerBoater69]

Didn't the Scoreboard have real cheap Pilsner Urquell cans for a while last year?

That was a couple years ago.

[blue911]

Didn't the Scoreboard have real cheap Pilsner Urquell cans for a while last year?

Sometimes, but it was a home stand by home stand decision, so usually no.

[tomterp]

WHAT! That's a fabulous deal if they still had it. Stella is $9 during games. Will probably go up this season. 

Anyway, I thought the hike from the Loft to the Miller Scoreboard Walk involved a ton of stairways.

It's on the same level as the Loft.

Upon further reflection, it may have been Pilsner Urquell they had for $5.  By the time I'm into the $5 beers I've already laid the base down with the Porch Dogfish Heads.   

[Baseball is Life]

It was Urguell, Miller, Miller Lite, and Coors Lite, IIRC.

[PowerBoater69]

It was Urguell, Miller, Miller Lite, and Coors Lite, IIRC.

What the hell is Urguell?

[wpa2629]

WHAT! That's a fabulous deal if they still had it. Stella is $9 during games. Will probably go up this season. 

NO NOT STELLA!!

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

They really need to do prairie oysters at Taste of the Majors when the Cardinals are back.  Or Mississippi hagfish on a bun. 

[JCA-CrystalCity]

You can get Prairie Oysters at Coors Field.

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

That makes sense.  My first encounter with that seminal delicacy was in Jackson, WY, where they were known as "rocky mountain oysters"...

You can get Prairie Oysters at Coors Field.

[Baseball is Life]

The fish tacos at Petco Park in San Diego and the Chicago dogs at Wrigley are hard to beat.

[GburgNatsFan]

Urquell, and it's good. Pilsener style.
 

What the hell is Urguell?

[axman]

Maybe it's a generational "thing" but I don't understand going to the stadium for cuisine and craft beer.   All that stuff is decoration.

I like to drink a beer at the game, and prefer to drink a beer that I like.  But I DO hate having to hunt for it.  Last year I checked the menu for the delivery to your seat and saw good beer on the list, so no more hunting.