Posted on 05/21/2013 7:53:03 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
...can anyone(more "Seasoned" Citizens) tell me what brand(s) of Hot Dogs were sold @ both the New York Polo Ground(NY Giants) and Ebbets Field(Brooklyn Dodgers) AND can they still be obtained?
You - my friend - have too much time on your hands.
Get a hobby.
The name will come to me sometime. It is on the tip of my tongue.
Guessing...
Nathan’s?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/opinion/15kriegel.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
He has a hobby...he’s collecting hotdogs.
There was a billboard at the Polo Grounds(during the Mets time there) advertising Hebrew National hotdogs.
I doubt that any tasty foods from our childhood . . . 50’s and 60’s, are still available. Sure, the brand name still exists, but chemicals and additives have changed it so that it is no longer the same.
I noticed that around the 70’s or so, the slogan “New and Improved” actually meant “Changed and Cheapened”.
Yankee Dogs
...would actualy appeal to us now at our age.
I used to eat sugar sandwiches.......
Ran into the “new and improved” label on my favorite breakfast cereal yesterday...yup, it went from an 18 oz to a 15 oz box at the same price....new and improved profit item I guess.
It would almost certainly be either Nathan’s or Hebrew National.
mmmm . . . sugar sammwiches! oh, and mayonaise too!
So that’s where I got my diabetes!
I didnt read down through the whole thing, but according to this Harry M. Stevens provided the Ebetts Field dogs.
http://www.baseball-fever.com/archive/index.php/t-46196.html
The best hot dogs ever, from my earlier days, were Schickhaus, made in New Jersey like many yummy things:
Wenning Foods, supply Schickhaus dogs to Max’s in Long Branch, NJ
732-222-3085, they will ship 40 dog box 10lbs
I have one, “nostagia” and reading REALLY ancient history.
I can’t help you with New York, but at Dodger Stadium, the hot dogs were first provided by John Morrell & Company, which had a meat packing facility in Los Angeles, and later by Clougherty Packing, whose products were sold under the brand name Farmer John. I believe their facility was in Vernon or thereabouts. This company later merged with Hormel, which still uses the Farmer John brand name and still makes the Dodger Dogs you can get at Dodger Stadium.
I doubt that these were sold at Ebbets Field, though. More likely a 100% beef hot dog.
Harry M. Stevens
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