After rumors of new food spread through NatsTown the last week, I was intrigued by the “Thai Dog” mentioned as one of the new food options at Nationals Park. I generally try to avoid eating at the stadium to save what’s left of my figure, but I was hungry yesterday, so made an exception. Plus, since my doctor told me to take Prilosec daily, I’m finding I can tolerate foods that were previously off limits (such as hot dogs and Spaghettios). So when Mr. Chatter went off to forage for food and beer, I asked him to stop by the former Teddy’s BBQ and pick me up a Thai dog.
I love Thai food – it ranks way up there among my top cuisines. So I was curious what a Thai dog would entail. Peanuts on top? Lemongrass? Some pad thai on a dog? I really wanted to know where that food concept (ha! had to throw that in again) was going.
Mr. Chatter returned to our seats beerless and foodless for himself, but dutifully brought me back a dog from the stand requested and french fries from another stand, because apparently they don’t do fries at the hot dog place. Instead of a Thai dog, he handed me a mac n cheese dog. Interesting!
I’m a Kraft Mac n Cheese junky, in case you didn’t know. These were bigger normal-sized elbow noodles, but the sauce looked similar. The whole thing was topped with bits of Fritos. Mr. Chatter was told they don’t have the Thai dog yet, but maybe next month. Not wanting to come back empty handed, he went for something else he figured I’d like.
It was definitely interesting and not as bizarre as I expected. I don’t think it would win Iron Chef or anything, but it was creative and the mac n cheese went ok with the dog. Best of all, I didn’t get heartburn from it.
Another amusing but unrelated concession note – I was standing at the top of the steps to my section waiting for a break in play to return to my seats when I heard a continuous crashing noise. Looking over, I managed to catch the tail end of a beer avalanche in this cooler. Oops? A mad rush ensued from witnesses demanding to buy the damaged and likely explosive beer at a discount! Play broke and I left, so I’m sure how that all played out.
