Rockies Make Top 10 List of Favorite, Most Unhealthy MLB Foods

Rockies Make Top 10 List of Favorite, Most Unhealthy MLB Foods
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Itā€™s been a season to forget already for the Colorado Rockies, who sit 11.5 games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West after 31 games with little to suggest a turnaround is on the horizon along the Front Range.  

Luckily for Colorado baseball fans, they can still call Coors Field home, as the 29-year-old stadium consistently earns top marks for its design and gameday aesthetic, which is why the club frequently ranks near the top of the MLB attendance rankings despite the franchise failing to reach the playoffs since 2018.  As you can tell, we'll take a brief break from our Colorado sports betting coverage to dive into everyone's second favorite topic: ballpark eats.

Coors Field is also home of a Colorado culinary fare thatā€™s anything but easy on the stomach, with Rocky Mountain oysters being on the menu inside the MLB ballpark since 1995. For those of you that are unaware of what Rocky Mountain oysters are, weā€™ll recommend you read up on them here on an empty stomach.  

With National Eat What You Want Day falling on May 11, BetColorado.com wanted to know what MLB ballpark has had the most outlandish, unhealthy concession items to date. To figure this out, we asked fans to submit their favorite unhealthy fare within Reddit.comā€™s subreddit r/mlb. We ranked the top 10 most unhinged, unhealthy, yet fan-favorite foods based on the number of upvotes a comment received.

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Top 10 Favorite Unhealthy Ballpark Concessions

Rank

Menu Item

Team

Upvotes

1

Mumbo Fried Chicken Sandwich

Washington Nationals

30

2

Pulled Pork BBQ Nachos

Tampa Bay Rays

14

3

Rocky Mountain Oysters

Colorado Rockies

11

T4

Churro Dog

Arizona Diamondbacks

8

T4

The Warehouse Dog

Baltimore Orioles

8

6

Slider Dog

Cleveland Guardians

6

7

Garlic Fries

San Francisco Giants

5

8

Rattlesnake Hot Dogs

Texas Rangers

4

9

Sweet Pretzel Bites

Tampa Bay Rays

3

10

The Beast

Milwaukee Brewers

2

BetColorado.com took a pause from reviewing Colorado sports betting apps to ask fans to submit their favorite unhealthy fare within Reddit.comā€™s subreddit r/mlb.

Where Coors Fieldā€™s Rocky Mountain Oysters Rank MLB Wide

Across the league, the Rockiesā€™ bull testicle dish gathered the third most upvotes on Reddit when it came to baseball fansā€™ favorite unhealthy ballpark concession items, with 11 upvotes, ranking behind the Washington Nationalsā€™ mambo fried chicken sandwich (30 upvotes) and the Tampa Bay Raysā€™ pulled pork BBQ nachos (14 upvotes).  

Leaguewide, the Rockiesā€™ stomach-churning fare beat out the Arizona Diamondbacksā€™ churro dogs and the Baltimore Oriolesā€™ warehouse dog (eight upvotes each), while the Cleveland Guardians slider dog (six upvotes), the San Francisco Giantsā€™ garlic fries (five upvotes) and the Texas Rangersā€™ rattlesnake hot dogs (four upvotes) were the next closest.  

Throw in sweet pretzel bites from the Rays (three upvotes) and the Milwaukee Brewersā€™ ā€œThe Beastā€ (two upvotes) and you have the full top 10 across the MLB, with baseball fans having a clear preference when it comes to the glutenous foods they love the most when they head to the nearest MLB ballpark in 2024.  

USA Today photo by Ron Chenoy.

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Christopher Boan

Christopher Boan has been covering sports and sports betting for more than seven years, including stops at ArizonaSports.com, the Tucson Weekly and the Green Valley News.

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