Bacon-wrapped Hot Dog And Garlic Fries (ENG)

March ... spring time ... but above all: spring training! Winter is finally over, baseball season begins.

Let’s do then a quick tour among ballparks around the world, from United States to Italy to find out what you can eat at the game.

Baseball is after all closely linked to a healthy diet: you just need to make a list of every food that you find in a ballpark and you know exactly what to avoid to stay healthy. Baseball food is in fact fat, contains lots of calories and little nutrients and it’s usually accompanied by sugary drinks.

Eating behavior is though made of daily habits not of isolated events, so I guess that, once a year, we are allowed to a bacon - wrapped hot dog with garlic fries while watching the Giants at AT&T Park in San Francisco (and by the way: Let’s go Giants!).

If you prefer to avoid red meat, recently added by the WHO among the cancer – causing foods, you can just go to St. Louis to see a Cardinals game and have a breaded chicken waffles sandwich.

For a more Latin flavor is not necessary to drive to Mexico, but you can just stop in Denver at Coors Field, the home of the Colorado Rockies for a "taco dog" where the "dog" itself is chorizo. Another Mexican food is represented by nachos, which can be found on a stick in Milwaukee. Baseball games rarely lasts less than a couple of hours and stretching a bit between innings is part of the Game: so you can enjoy Milwaukee Brewers "nacho on a stick” while walking around Miller Park."

A healthier version of baseball food is made by fish sandwiches: fish is in fact a great source of Omega 3. At Fenway Park, the home of the Boston Red Sox, there are different restaurants and stands where you can eat lobster roll.

Finally: dessert! The Texas Rangers Fried S’mOreo: a marshmallow breaded in graham cracker crust that is deep fried, placed between two deep-fried battered Oreos, placed on a skewer, and drizzled with chocolate sauce. OMG! Does this even exists?

To digest everything and make sure we don’t miss the last inevitable ingredient for a very bad diet, we just need to make a quick trip to Philadelphia where they serve hard liquor at Phillies home games.

I have though to admit that, after all this food, “piada e zuzézza” (kind of sausage’s tortilla) at Gianni Falchi, home of the Fortitudo Baseball, is in my opinion the best baseball food ever! ... and since in Italy there is no smoking ban inside the ballpark, if you're really lucky, you can enjoy your piada in a cloud of smoke coming form the guy sitting next to you.

So we listed all the ingredients for a wrong and very unhealthy lifestyle: fat food, red meat, alcohol and tobacco.

There is only one more thing to be said: 

the only and true baseball food remains Cracker Jack as it is in Take Me Out to the Ball Game song

Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd;
Just buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,
I don't care if I never get back.
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don't win, it's a shame.
For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out,
At the old ball game.

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