Here's a look at food served inside MLB stadiums — including a 26-inch burrito

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From a caller 125th day anniversary barroom milkshake successful Chicago to 2-foot-long burritos successful Texas, MLB stadiums are offering up overmuch much than conscionable the games this season.

Hours earlier the Texas Rangers instrumentality the field, cook Cris Vasquez and his squad of 180 cooks occurrence up 8 kitchens dispersed crossed Globe Life Stadium to statesman cooking up 42,000 meals. The location specialty: BBQ brisket and pulled pork, smoked successful house.

The Rangers helped to usher successful an epoch of viral large summons nutrient items with their 24-inch boomstick blistery canine backmost successful 2012. They inactive merchantability much than 100 astatine each location game.

"People similar to eat. They privation to spot thing different, a ballpark, not conscionable accepted nachos, blistery dogs. They privation to spot thing more, truthful each twelvemonth we person to travel up with thing fun, thing wild," Vasquez said.

This year, they're selling a 26-inch burrito, packed with astir 3.5 pounds of taco meat, rice, achromatic beans and food – costing $36.

"I didn't deliberation it's gonna beryllium this big, but I'm large and it sounded good," Mary Ellen Sorrell said laughing.

screenshot-2025-05-08-at-12-34-54-pm.png The Boomstick Burrito is simply a monolithic 26-inch flour tortilla filled with rice, beans, seasoned taco meat, Rico's Nacho Cheese, pico de gallo, lettuce and sour cream. Served successful 4 shareable portions astatine the Texas Rangers' games. Delaware North

Signature dishes astatine ballparks

Stadium concessions are large business. Fans walk an mean of astir $75 connected nutrient and drinks astatine an MLB crippled with teams uncovering request for peculiar premium offerings.

"You lone travel to the crippled each erstwhile successful a while, right? So mightiness arsenic good spell big," said Reid Walker, who ordered the archetypal boomstick blistery dog. 

Lou Piuggi is the caput cook astatine Delaware North that provides nutrient work to 10 large league parks. He said signature dishes support fans engaged.

Big summons nutrient items that are caller this play see the "lob dog" for San Diego Padres fans: a blistery canine topped with grilled lobster, Milwaukee Brewers fans tin drawback a brat formation astatine a crippled and the Cleveland Guardians person done their ain twist connected a cheesesteak blistery dog.

Last season, the Chicago White Sox finished connected the shot tract with the league's worst record, but their biggest location tally was the campfire milkshake. This season, the squad is celebrating 125 years with a day barroom milkshake. The ballpark's paper volition besides diagnostic the El Diablo Korean canine with mozzarella wrapped successful Flamin' Hot Cheetos and a peculiar sauce, letting fans get a sensation they won't soon forget. 

screenshot-2025-05-08-at-12-40-58-pm.png The Home Run Stack astatine the Atlanta Braves stadium is simply a towering indulgence featuring 3 slices of toasted brioche layered with 2 CAB beef patties, ample slabs of Hungarian candied bacon and smoked brisket. Topped with tangy pickled bulb slaw, Carolina aureate BBQ condiment and Coca-Cola BBQ sauce, past crowned with crispy jumbo bulb rings. Served with a broadside of aureate gallic fries. Delaware North

Kris Van Cleave

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Emmy Award-winning writer Kris Van Cleave is the elder proscription analogous for CBS News based successful Phoenix, Arizona, wherever helium besides serves arsenic a nationalist analogous reporting for each CBS News broadcasts and platforms.

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