MA Baseball Team Launches World’s Most Expensive Hot Dog with Truffles & Caviar… Recession? What Recession?
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on July 24, 2011
Expensive truffle, valued at $500, was the main ingredient in a recent cooking challenge on Gordon Ramsay's 'MasterChef' TV competition - now truffles are included with a ballpark hot dog
This past week on Gordon Ramsay’s MasterChef television show, the reality-show-chef-wanna-be’s were challenged to create a sensuous dish with a black truffle lump that reportedly cost $500.
Each lump. Five hundred smackeroos. More than $5,000 in truffles in all for this one cooking challenge.
The fact that the pricey fungal lumps looked much like poochie-poo didn’t stifle the contestants’ Michelin-starred kitchen creativity.
Now a Massachusetts baseball team is upping the truffle ante with its “most expensive hot dog in the world” — the McMullen Dog.
No economic recession in Massachusetts, eh?
Reported by The Telegraph, For $80, a dollop of truffles and caviar make the world’s most expensive hot dog:
It’s one of America’s most popular sporting traditions – an afternoon at the ball park with a cold beer and a hot dog.
Now a Massachusetts baseball team has elevated the experience to a lesson in haute cuisine.
The Brockton Rox have introduced what they claim is the world’s most expensive hot dog to stadium kiosks, an $80 feast made from ingredients rarely seen on a fast-food menu.
The club’s McMullen Dog, named for Atlantic City chef Ryan McMullen who came up with the idea, features a half-pound all-beef sausage rolled in truffle oil, coated with the dust of pulverised porcini mushrooms and topped with white truffle shavings.
The bread roll is buckwheat blini, hand crafted by one of Cape Cod’s most exclusive bakeries. And in place of the more familiar ketchup and mustard, fans can choose a creme fraiche dressing with a dollop of caviar and salmon roe.
Sander Stotland, the club’s director of food and beverage, insists that the hot dogs will still deliver an authentic ballpark taste because the sausages are deep-fried.
“It’s a cross of the redneck meets the rich and famous,” he told The Enterprise, Brockton’s local newspaper.
The new hot dog, being introduced at Saturday’s game against the Newark Bears to coincide with National Hot Dog Day, already has one confirmed order – a Japanese television producer who heard about the venture in the week and promised to send a camera crew.
Anthony Weiner jokes were intentionally avoided.
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