To the editor: As a 74-year-old with few pleasures left in life, I used to go to Dodger Stadium for the only real function of throwing warning to the wind and indulging within the delicacy of a Farmer John sizzling canine smothered with mustard and onions. However no extra. Workers author James Rainey is completely appropriate when he writes that “followers have been grumbling since Farmer John stopped supplying the group’s signature sizzling canines again in 2021” (“Dodger Canine style bleh. So what stadium meals choices gained’t break the financial institution?,” Oct. 16). It’s me; I’ve been grumbling since 2021.
The brand new sizzling canines are horrible. You couldn’t pay Joey Chestnut to eat one. Farmer John sizzling canines, in the meantime, are the filet mignon of the recent canine world and have been synonymous with the Dodger group since 1958. I had my first one at Dodger Stadium in 1966, when Don Drysdale was on the mound. The Farmer John sizzling canines have a singular style, taste and texture that I at all times appeared ahead to throughout my visits to the stadium.
The brand new vendor has by no means been capable of attain these heights. It’s surprising that the Dodgers are keen to pay their gamers this 12 months roughly $321 million and so they simply couldn’t deliver themselves to chop a take care of Farmer John. Carry again Farmer John; till then, I’ll root for the Dodgers at house.
Lawrence Awbrey, Woodland Hills
