Stadium food
The Food Chain
BBC
4.7 • 545 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Which food do you associate with your favourite sport?
Pie and chips at an English football match, biriyanis at the cricket in Pakistan or grilling meat in the parking lot outside an American football game – there are some tasty traditions which go hand-in-hand with sport across the world.
Ruth Alexander hears how a traditional rice dish can bring two rival nations together over a game of cricket, and how a disappointing sausage roll before a football game led one man on a country-wide quest for better food for fans.
Over a pile of warming chips on a frosty night in South Manchester, Ruth discovers how getting the food right off the pitch might help a team’s fortune improve on the pitch.
If you would like to get in touch with the show, please email: thefoodchain@bbc.co.uk
Presenter: Ruth Alexander
Producer: Hannah Bewley
Additional reporting: Ben Derico
(Image: a box of chips with gravy and curry sauce held beside a football pitch. Credit: BBC)
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| 0:33.0 | This is the day of the Sydney for the speaking's national in- income picture between Ulterium and Stoke City. |
| 0:42.0 | On a cold, wintry night in the north-west of England, |
| 0:45.1 | Alteringham Football Club are hosting Stoke City under 21s. |
| 0:49.3 | We're not here for the football, though. |
| 0:51.4 | We're here for the food. |
| 0:54.5 | I must say that looks good, what is it? |
| 0:56.5 | It's very, very good. It's meat, potato pie, chips and I think it's a chicken macarnie sauce. |
| 1:04.4 | It's very, very nice. |
| 1:05.7 | This is the food chain from the BBC World Service with me, Ruth Alexander. |
| 1:10.1 | And this week we're looking at the business, culture and future of food at sports |
| 1:14.9 | stadiums around the world. |
| 1:16.9 | And you're washing it down with a pint of lager? |
| 1:18.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.5 | Lovely. |
| 1:20.4 | So you're obviously here for the football big time. |
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