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The Sporkful

Reheat: Confessions of a Ballpark Food Vendor

The Sporkful

SiriusXM Podcasts

Arts

4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Sporkful, a former Shea Stadium food vendor tells Dan about the worst gig in the ballpark. Plus a North Carolina peanut man tells us how they get the salt inside the shell, and Mike Pesca from The Gist tells us how much free advertising Cracker Jack got from being included in "Take Me Out To The Ball Game".

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, Dan here.

0:03.3

Before we get to this week's reheat, quick reminder that if you haven't done this already,

0:06.5

please connect with our show in your podcasting app of choice.

0:09.5

Just go to the Sporkful page and Spotify or Apple Podcast or whatever it is and click

0:13.2

favorite follow heart whatever the thing is in your app connect with the show that we

0:17.3

won't miss future episodes we can hang out more go ahead you can do it right now

0:20.3

while you're listening thanks all right now this week we're reaching back into the deep freezer for a

0:25.4

reheat in honor of the middle of summer we are reheating an episode from 2015

0:29.1

about the ins and outs of ballpark food featuring a former ballpark food vendor, a peanut man, and much more.

0:36.0

Enjoy.

0:37.0

How big is Dublin, North Carolina?

0:39.0

If everybody's at home, we have about 315 people.

0:42.0

This is Nyle Brisson, president of peanut

0:46.2

processors in Dublin, North Carolina. Baseball season is underway and if someone

0:51.2

takes you out to the ball game they're probably going to ask them to buy you some peanuts and Cracker Jack.

0:55.4

So those are the foods we're going to talk about today.

0:57.4

Niles family has been in the peanut business for three generations.

1:01.0

I asked him to tell me the best way to eat a peanut in the shell.

1:04.8

To me it's between my front two teeth. I just turn it the right direction and put it in there

1:08.8

and put a little pressure on it and it pops right open.

1:11.6

So you put it so that the seam is lined up with your teeth?

1:14.6

That's correct.

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