Ballclubs offer eating clubs
Posted on March 8, 2008
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America is growing, but not necessarily in the Teddy Roosevelt, empire-building manner.
The country is growing at the waistline — all of us at once, it seems. Studies show that 60 percent of Americans are overweight; one-third of our kids are fat, too. That’ll happen when you allow phys. ed. programs to fall victim to budget cuts.
Major League Baseball teams aren’t helping matters any with their disturbing trend of adding all-you-can-eat sections in their stadiums. As reported in this terrific write-up in Friday’s USA Today, at least 13 of the 30 teams will be offering all-you-can-eat seats this season.
This is the part I found most disconcerting:
Ron Ranieri, general manager of concessionaire Aramark at Atlanta’s Turner Field, calculates that a typical all-you-can-eat customer downed: 3.35 hot dogs; one 20-ounce soda; one 7.9-ounce bag of peanuts; one 3-ounce order of nachos and 32 ounces of popcorn.
That’s what the average person is eating in these sections. Many others undoubtedly are inhaling food on a much larger scale — though a scale is obviously not much on their minds.
I can only imagine what those bathrooms look like after a game.
As if these teams aren’t acting irresponsibly enough, some of them — such as the Braves — include beer for a higher price. So provided you don’t wreck while driving home drunk, you’ll end up dying of a heart attack from all the fat you just consumed.
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Two pounds of popcorn. Ouch. And I think everybody had one hot dog, but Kobayashi stopped in for an inning and threw the curve off.
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