Saturday, July 22, 2006

Why junk food must not be sold at America's Ball Parks and Arenas

Ok America, I am really ticked off at the way America's Ball Parks sell junk food to the fans. It encourages fans to eat like crap. Here we are at an "Athletic Event" and the customers are eating funnel cakes, ice cream, and all sorts of disgusting candies. I think that fans that eat that crap are ruining sports. How can you sell this junk at arenas? Nachos are utterly the worst food at arenas. Think about it, all that goopy "cheese" that you dump on your Nachos. It's disgusting. Here we have a father teaching his son the game of baseball (or some other productive sport), encouraging him to be "active", and at the same time, chugging down artery clogging cheese and chips down his throat with a 32 oz jug of beer to wash it down. How do the kids do the math? Do they think to themselves "Well, real athletes work out, play the game, and then go home to eat junk food"? I never did, and that is partly because my dad never ate that crap (at least not in front of me). He always brought salads, fat free milk, V8 juice, and bananas to the games. Ok, not really. He too chugs down a 44 oz. soda, grabs a hot dog, and "chills". Why not? What's stopping him? He's not in bad shape (he actually runs ultra-marathons), he's in better shape than 80 percent of the fans. Why can't he eat a little junk food? Every other fan is doing it, and in the process killing themselves. The point is, no matter who you are, when at a ball game, you eat the crappiest plate of food you can eat. Why? Because it's there. It's everywhere. It's all around the stadiums. What I suggest is to have some healthier foods at the games. You can still have the junk food, but come one, give a fan an option. What if your an athlete? Are you really excited about the two hot dog-two giant soda packages? I am, but why should you be? You can do better than me. If you want to dodge the cholesteral train, you should be able to. You should not be forced to ride the damn train. If you don't want to ride it, and yet still eat, you should be able to. They should have more salad bars, kill a few burger joints, and add a Subway (another kind of train) type place. Believe me, if you put out some healthier foods at stadiums, you'll set a better example for the kids, show them what "real athletes" eat, and get them hooked on healthy food. Believe me, people will buy the healthy foods. They will. They'll say hey, "I'm sick of the Charles Barkley diet", how about some healthier food. So, in closing, I hope that somebody out there will change the ways arenas think of food, and hopefully the next time I'm at a ballgame, I'll be able to have my V8 juice, with a market fresh sandwich. Even though I'll still go for the two hot dog-two soda package deluxe specialty deal (while I still can).

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