Get your veggie hot dog

July 22nd, 2008 | Posted by PostmanR

Tired of traditional hot dogs made from beef or pork? Want something new, interesting, totally tubular to the MAXXXX? Well if you frequent the veggie dog serving half of MLB ballparks, you can taste one of these veggie dogs made from meat analogue. YES!

Eight years into her mission, the 43-year-old actress and Duke graduate is halfway there, with Dodger Stadium among the first to sign on and Angel Stadium still a holdout. Fielder’s decision to give up meat has been a welcome shot in the arm to the cause, which has encountered pockets of hostile resistance.

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McCloy says she was equally dumbfounded when, during an appearance on a Denver radio station, her efforts were labeled un-American. Her only objective, she says, is to give fans a choice.

“I said, ‘How more American can you get?’ ” McCloy says of her Denver radio experience. “This is a nation of immigrants, this is a nation of diversity, this is a nation of opportunity, this is a nation of saying ‘yes’ to everybody. How are you threatened by a couple of people to your left at a baseball game choosing to eat something other than what you’re eating?”

This presents an interesting quandary: America is the land of freedom and opportunity, BUT it’s also the land where meat, gluttony and beer rule all. If you’re at an A’s game though, you’re straight: just go to the all-you-can-eat section and wolf down as many veggie dogs as you can.

Problem solved.