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Do any of you buy food at football matches? I ask as a friend of mine went to watch Accy Stanley play Port Vale last Saturday. She told me she paid a massive 6 quid for a hot dog!She said it was just a thin sausage on a finger tea cake. Yes, I know that's how hot dogs are supposed to be but she also said the seller had run out of fried onions and all the condiment bottles were empty! Six quid when you can buy 6 'smart price' tinned hot dogs for 70p and a packet of 10 finger tea cakes for about a quid in supermarkets!
For some reason Google keeps posting photos and prices of footy ground food. It's mainly things like pie, peas and gravey. Some prices are astronomical but many are quite reasonable
eg 4 quid.
Can't say any of it makes me want to buy a portion.
PaulSB
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Do any of you buy food at football matches? I ask as a friend of mine went to watch Accy Stanley play Port Vale last Saturday. She told me she paid a massive 6 quid for a hot dog!
On the very rare occasion I'm hungry at a lunchtime KO. At most a portion of chips once a season. I'm aware it's expensive but no more so than at a cinema.
Two reasons I don't buy the food. It's a style of food I don't enjoy and I would have a nagging doubt about hygiene and food standards.
AndyRM
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A lot of them are fake/wrongly posted by rival fans as a wind up. There's one which frequently does the rounds of a hot dog from St. James' Park, where that isn't even an option.
Clubs should keep it simple IMO: pie and bovril.
PaulSB
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A bad night for Rovers with a 1 - 2 defeat at QPR. We missed a huge opportunity with a sloppy performance and terrible defending for the winner.
The manager was clearly very disappointed in the result and the team. I worry we will lose Eustace in the summer.
The manager was clearly very disappointed in the result and the team. I worry we will lose Eustace in the summer.
Really? I am too naive.
AndyRM
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Yep, it's usually pretty funny but some fans who take football entirely too seriously get very upset about it, which itself is very funny.
We're lucky at Rugby Park as our pie offering is from a local and award winning baker, Brownings. Even when our b*stard of a former owner pulled a total d!ck move and took out some legal thing preventing them from calling it a "Killie Pie" they stuck with us. It's routinely voted the best pie in Scotland, though I believe that title is inexplicably with Ross County this season.
As much as I love them, their association is somewhat tainted due to our miserable efforts against Connahs Quay Nomads in Europe a few seasons ago. Me and my old man got the last pies in the Frank Beattie and sat down to enjoy them, about 5 minutes after the second half had kicked off. Unfortunately they had scored and thus began a miserable spiral of being papped out of European qualification by a part time side, sacking a manager who had us solidly in fifth and sliding embarrassingly down the league before being relegated with a whimper in the playoff.
It was a good pie though.
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AndyRM
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Do any of you buy food at football matches? I ask as a friend of mine went to watch Accy Stanley play Port Vale last Saturday. She told me she paid a massive 6 quid for a hot dog!
She'll be horrified when she discovers that it's possible to cook food more cheaply at home than it is to go out to a restaurant...
Chislenko
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The pies are that expensive people are resorting to stealing them.
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AndyRM
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That's really poor. North Shields' ground, The Daren Persson Stadium (AKA The Morgue) was recently targeted by vandals who took offense to the turnstiles for some mindless reason. They also damaged part of the exterior of the bar.
No signs of looking to break in or anything, just damage for the sake of it.
If people realised how much effort goes into the running of a non league club I'd hope they'd think twice about being so stupid, but probably not.
AndyRM
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I wonder if Arteta will try and blame the ball again for Arsenal's defeat this evening?
Accy cyclist
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I haven't been to an away match for must be 6 or 7 years, when I used to take my own food, or just not bother as I can go the whole day on very little. I think most grounds do bag checks now, so it's harder to sneak your own food in, making you buy the stuff they sell in the ground. When Accy played Liverpool at Anfield the other week you were only allowed to take an A5 size bag into the ground, which they searched according to their website. Years ago at Accy Stanley I'd take a whole home made pre microwaved meal (beef casserole type stuff) wrapped in tinfoil, so it was just the right temperature come half time when I'd eat it, a flask of coffee or if I wasn't driving or cycling there I'd pour a few pints of beer into a plastic bottle which the stewards didn't mind as it wasn't a glass container. Nowadays they check your bag for food and alcohol and coffee/tea flasks aren't allowed now as they're classed as 'possible projectiles'.
HMS_Dave
Grand Old Lady
I'd just take my own food for cost and hygiene worry reasons. I haven't been to an away match for must be 6 or 7 years, when I used to take my own food, or just not bother as I can go the whole day on very little. I think most grounds do bag checks now, so it's harder to sneak your own food in, making you buy the stuff they sell in the ground. When Accy played Liverpool at Anfield the other week you were only allowed to take an A5 size bag into the ground, which they searched according to their website. Years ago at Accy Stanley I'd take a whole home made pre microwaved meal (beef casserole type stuff) wrapped in tinfoil, so it was just the right temperature come half time when I'd eat it, a flask of coffee or if I wasn't driving or cycling there I'd pour a few pints of beer into a plastic bottle which the stewards didn't mind as it wasn't a glass container. Nowadays they check your bag for food and alcohol and coffee/tea flasks aren't allowed now as they're classed as 'possible projectiles'.
Jeez...
For the sake of a couple of hours i'd rather wait it out than take a microwave meal in with me. Having to stand up, sit down, stand up, sit down to let people past on the seat rows at half time, whilst trying to awkwardly eat would drive me mad! I'd rather just bugger off to the queues to buy one of Walsall's award winning (probably) Balti Pies...
Accy cyclist
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Most times I'd take a hot meal was when I was a steward at Accy for 5 years, eating the meal in my 10 minute break. If I wasn't stewarding that match I'd stand with a few friends on the not very busy terrace, so I could eat it in peace.
HMS_Dave
Grand Old Lady
Most times I'd take a hot meal was when I was a steward at Accy for 5 years, eating the meal in my 10 minute break. If I wasn't stewarding that match I'd stand with a few friends on the not very busy terrace, so I could eat it in peace.
Ahh. That's much easier when you have 32 fans.
