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Hormel will no longer be supplying hot dogs for the Twins. Terrible news. (Thanks to Over The Baggy for pointing this out.)

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All will be forgiven if they start selling Hebrew National.

by RandBall's Stu on Feb 24, 2010 11:29 AM EST reply actions  

They are hot dogs...

… from OUT OF STATE. (Stu, how could you?)

by Jon Marthaler on Feb 24, 2010 11:37 AM EST up reply actions  

They Answer to a Higher Authority, if I remember the advert correctly.

by RandBall's Stu on Feb 24, 2010 11:50 AM EST up reply actions  

That was meant as a reply to Jesse’s query about Hebrew National’s kosher bona fides. Sorry, Jon. I know how strongly you feel about the question of ONE OF US-ness, and shouldn’t have been so callous as to suggest an out-of-state hot dog. I assume they’ll go with another in-state option…isn’t Schweigert local?

by RandBall's Stu on Feb 24, 2010 11:56 AM EST up reply actions  

Spam Dog?

"Pinch-bunters don't have a ton of value, even with the Twins"

by Steven Ellingson on Feb 24, 2010 10:55 PM EST up reply actions  

Read Sinclair Lewis' muckraking about the turn of the (last) century meat industry

Might be in The Jungle. That will cure (sic) any despair you feel over the loss of hotdogs.

by Old Twins Cap on Feb 24, 2010 11:32 AM EST reply actions  

This has nothing to do with Dome Dogs

Did Hormel own the trademark on that or something?

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by natetheskate on Feb 24, 2010 12:01 PM EST up reply actions  

Well...

Hormel probably doesn’t own the trademark (which may not exist, actually – I don’t know that I’ve seen an® or TM by it), but since they actually make the Dome Dogs, even if they kept the name, the actual product would likely be different.

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by BeefMaster on Feb 24, 2010 12:06 PM EST up reply actions  

Upton Sinclair?

Pretty sure you mean Upton Sinclair? I don’t remember any gross hot dogs in Main Street or Babbit. :)

by lalama on Feb 24, 2010 12:02 PM EST up reply actions  

+1 for accuracy...

…but I gotta cut OTC some slack since I’ve made the same mistake before

by archie2227 on Feb 24, 2010 12:47 PM EST up reply actions  

me too

I know I have, too – that’s why I noticed it. I also spelled Babbitt wrong, so -1 for accuracy.

by lalama on Feb 24, 2010 1:01 PM EST up reply actions  

I stand corrected

Embarrassing for a former English teacher. Still, the body is a temple and it should not be violated by anything made by Hormel.

by Old Twins Cap on Feb 24, 2010 3:42 PM EST up reply actions  

Last year it was the Rally Malt Cups...

…and this year it’s Dome Dogs. What is this world coming to?

-Flip

by Flip27 on Feb 24, 2010 11:45 AM EST reply actions  

Hot dogs are for kids

What kind of bratwurst and polish sausage are they selling?

by DJL44 on Feb 24, 2010 11:46 AM EST reply actions  

Kramarczuk’s from NE Mpls is providing them, I believe. Which is awesome.

by RandBall's Stu on Feb 24, 2010 11:54 AM EST up reply actions  

I'll take a Kramarczuk dog over a dome dog any day

The only redeeming quality to Dome Dogs is the sheer volume of odorless, tasteless meat-like substance they manage to extrude into one package. The only innovation there is having a larger aperture on the meat extrusion machine. The so-called meat is grown in china by prison labor, sent through a giant meat shredding machine, and shipped to the US in bulk.

The dogs we will now be able to get will have real meat inside real skins, hand made by real people who live in N.E. Minneapolis from local beef. They’ll taste and smell like real beef, not like whatever condiments you are obliged to slather on them to get them to taste like anything at all.

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by cmathewson on Feb 24, 2010 11:57 AM EST reply actions   1 recs

+1

Great place that’s supplied me for many a brat barbeque.

by Luke in MN on Feb 24, 2010 1:17 PM EST up reply actions  

DOME DOGS SUCKED

There, I said it. It is true. It was part of the WORST menu in all baseball stadiums.

Kramarczuk’s sausages are SOOO much better in every way.

Good riddance dome dogs.

by rencito on Feb 26, 2010 9:23 AM EST up reply actions  

Hormel is a terrible company

Just watch the Academy Award winning documentary American Dream, available on Netflix. Also, there’s no reason why the Dome Dog can’t continue without Hormel—they were providing both the “all beef” dome dog and the mystery meat regular hot dogs. Not that hard to find another supplier.

Along those lines, I’d love to see Thousand Hills Cattle Company from Canon Falls, MN provide hot dogs to the Twins. Humanely raised, grass-fed beef at reasonable prices. Maybe it’s a stretch to hope for this, but Target Corp. did recently announce they were only going to sell wild caught Alaska salmon in their stores from now on (as opposed to less sustainable and less delicious farm raised and Atlantic caught salmon)

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by natetheskate on Feb 24, 2010 11:58 AM EST reply actions  

+1

Small local operations with sustainable processes from breeding to feeding to eating.

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by cmathewson on Feb 24, 2010 12:32 PM EST up reply actions  

Good documentary

American Dream should be subtitled “How to Destroy Your Own Union”. I felt bad for the P9 but they helped make their own disaster.

by DJL44 on Feb 24, 2010 2:09 PM EST up reply actions  

yummm hot dogs

I would love to see hot dogs supplied from local small-scale producers – Thousand Hills, Lorenzo’s, that one really great place on 52 about 10 miles north of Cannon Falls…I’m sure there are tons of great hot dogs out there. They could just rotate through a few varieties.

by lalama on Feb 24, 2010 12:04 PM EST reply actions  

kramarczuk's

Here’s the RandBall article about what they’re providing for Target Field. Don’t read it if you’re hungry.

by RandBall's Stu on Feb 24, 2010 12:08 PM EST reply actions  

Dome Dogs

That’s why they were so cheap at Twinsfest. Imagine, all these “dome dogs” sitting in some fridge since the end of the playoffs, finally emerging as 2-fer-1s at Twinsfest.

ACtually, the real truth is that hot dogs won’t be a part of the new stadium, due to the recent outcry that people can “choke” on them. Baseball and “choke” and two words that don’t mix!

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by rosterman on Feb 24, 2010 12:16 PM EST reply actions  

Hahaha...gross...

…I wasn’t even there, and I’m sort of glad…pretty sure I’d have wolfed down cheap Dome Dogs…

by Jesse on Feb 24, 2010 12:18 PM EST up reply actions  

I've eaten Dome Dogs at Gopher baseball in Feb/March before.

You have to close your eyes and force yourself to not think about how long they’ve been sitting there.

by Jon Marthaler on Feb 24, 2010 12:24 PM EST up reply actions  

I assume by

I assume by “Dome Dogs” you are referring to the Hormel ‘Jumbo Dogs’ concessions guys rolled around with. Technically, Dome Dogs were a bigger production you could only get up at the booths in the concourse.

Jumbo Dogs, I’ll miss thee. Biggest. Hot Dogs. Ever.

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by AdamOnFirst on Feb 24, 2010 12:53 PM EST reply actions  

*sheds single tear

When you are at the game
come visit Hormel’s ‘Row of Fame.’
If your’e in a lucky seat
you’ll win a Hormel hot dog treat!

Great for lunch, great for dinner,
you will be a wiener winner!

In the Hormel Row of Fame!

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~ Billy Beane

by AdamOnFirst on Feb 24, 2010 12:56 PM EST reply actions   1 recs

+1

My little brother used to love that jingle.

by John Veldhuis on Feb 24, 2010 12:57 PM EST up reply actions  

I liked......

how the Twins camera guy would come down to the row and everyone would hold their weiner in the air and wave it at the camera!

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by rosterman on Feb 24, 2010 2:12 PM EST up reply actions  

RAOTFL!!!!! LMAO!

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by Percy Harvin My Fav! on Feb 24, 2010 7:18 PM EST up reply actions  

Hahaha!

Totally rec’d! I hope that comment turns green!

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by less cowbell, more 'neau on Feb 25, 2010 1:32 AM EST up reply actions  

Didn't that tradition start....

at the end of ‘Teen Wolf’? Kid in bleachers behind the father shaking his weiner for all to see.

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by By Allen's Mullet on Feb 24, 2010 3:33 PM EST up reply actions  

+1

I’ll miss that but I looking forward to hearing about the start of new traditions for the Twins…

by caluofmn on Feb 24, 2010 2:35 PM EST up reply actions  

Suggestion for new tradition:

Beating the bejesus out of other baseball teams.

by Luke in MN on Feb 24, 2010 2:50 PM EST up reply actions   1 recs

what a novel idea!

RonGarde: Target Field is going to be exactly like Progressive Field, except you'll have a chance to die of frostbite in the middle of July

by fischean on Feb 24, 2010 3:53 PM EST up reply actions  

twinkie town

land of 10,000 novel ideas and 1 old one…

by caluofmn on Feb 24, 2010 4:30 PM EST up reply actions  

I missed that by one row once

Bitter disappointment, it was.

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by BeefMaster on Feb 24, 2010 3:58 PM EST up reply actions  

Hear, hear!

That’s assuming that they really do go all-out and provide real fresh-breaded cheese curds, not the mass-produced kind that you get at a grocery store or fast food place. They said “State Fair style”, so I’m optimistic.

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by BeefMaster on Feb 24, 2010 3:57 PM EST up reply actions  

If they are actually state fair-style cheese curds

I think getting rid of Dome Dogs is totally worth it.

RonGarde: Target Field is going to be exactly like Progressive Field, except you'll have a chance to die of frostbite in the middle of July

by fischean on Feb 24, 2010 3:58 PM EST up reply actions  

They better be

State fair cheese curds at Target Field would be the best acquisition of the off-season. Sorry, Thome, JJ and O-Dawg.

by ckb on Feb 24, 2010 4:34 PM EST up reply actions  

maybe

state fair cheese curds can replace sunflower seeds in the dugout?

by caluofmn on Feb 24, 2010 5:16 PM EST up reply actions  

Cheese curds in dugout...

equals morbidly obese Jose Mijares.

by DJL44 on Feb 24, 2010 6:00 PM EST up reply actions  

HAHAHA!

Mayor McCheese cant resist the curds!

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by Percy Harvin My Fav! on Feb 24, 2010 7:19 PM EST up reply actions  

OMG!

my future self sent me this picture of Joe Mauer if cheese curds are allowed in the dugout!

We can’t let him become a Blackhawks fan!

Ha Ha

by caluofmn on Feb 24, 2010 9:54 PM EST up reply actions  

I still hope we get Punto Pups

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by less cowbell, more 'neau on Feb 25, 2010 1:33 AM EST reply actions  

No more Hormel Dogs?

I can see why the would not want to call it a Dome Dog anymore seeing as how we now have a kick ass undomed stadium. But there needs to be hot dogs of some type at the game. Even if they are sub par like the ones you may get a Timberwolves game. This also gives Bert one more thing to complain about. I think his diet consists of Dome Dogs and Coors light all summer.

RIP Dome Dog we will miss you

by Ryan Conway on Feb 25, 2010 10:48 AM EST reply actions  

Kramarczuk's

The Twins could not have made a better choice than to get Kramarczuk’s sausages. The only ones that are better in town are the ones you can get at The Wedge.

by rencito on Feb 26, 2010 9:29 AM EST reply actions  

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