Dodger Games Are Back and Better Than Ever: There’s a Plant-Based Dodger Dog

A brand new vegan model of the favored Dodger Canine is now out there on the Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Vegan meals model Subject Roast Grain Co. signed a multi-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers to function its new Signature Stadium Canine. Launched earlier this 12 months, the Signature Stadium Canine is produced from pea, brown rice, and fava bean protein and is double smoked utilizing maple hardwood wooden chips and a mixture of steam and dry warmth. Throughout dwelling video games, baseball followers can now order the Plant-Primarily based Dodger Canine, made with their alternative of toppings, at choose concessions and suites throughout the stadium. 

“Our followers are more and more on the lookout for high-quality and scrumptious plant-based choices, and we’re excited so as to add Subject Roast’s merchandise to our enhanced Dodger Stadium concession lineup,” Corey Norkin, Dodgers Vice President of International Partnerships, stated. 

The Dodger Stadium beforehand provided a wide range of plant-based choices, together with a scorching canine made with vegan Past Sausage. Nonetheless, this partnership is the primary time the LA Dodgers acknowledged a scorching canine because the Official Plant-Primarily based Dodger Canine.

“The Dodger Canine is without doubt one of the most iconic scorching canines in America, so we’re excited to supply a plant-based model that’s simply as crave-worthy,” Dan Curtin, President of Subject Roast’s father or mother firm Greenleaf Meals, stated. “Subject Roast is proud to associate with the Dodger group to convey the Signature Stadium Canine to Dodger Nation and we all know that it’s going to shortly amass its personal league of loyal followers.” 

Plant-based Dodger Canine for all

Along with Dodger Stadium, Subject Roast’s new plant-based scorching canine made its foodservice debut with two companions. In February, the vegan scorching canine made its debut on the menu at 19 take a look at areas of Wienerschnitzel—the world’s largest scorching canine chain—in California, Texas, and New Mexico as its first plant-based possibility. Subject Roast’s vegan scorching canine is featured as a part of three menu choices: Yard Veggie Canine (topped with dairy-based American cheese, a pickle spear, tomato, ketchup, and mustard); Barbeque Veggie Canine (served with barbecue sauce, a pickle spear, and onions), and Chicago Veggie Canine (topped with a pickle spear, tomato, sport peppers, onions, relish, mustard, and celery salt).

The buns Wienerschnitzel makes use of are free from animal merchandise which implies that The Yard Veggie Canine may be ordered vegan with out dairy-based cheese whereas the opposite two choices are vegan with out modifications. If the plant-based scorching canine proves in style, Wienerschnitzel will roll out the brand new choices to its 320 areas nationwide. 

In March, movie star chef Roy Choi additionally created his first vegan scorching canine possibility, known as The House Run, for his world-renowned Kogi Truck utilizing Subject Roast’s Signature Stadium Canine. The vegan scorching canine featured Choi’s signature Kogi slaw, cilantro-onion lime relish, salsas roja, verde, and naranja, roasted sesame seeds, and is smothered with melted Chao Creamery vegan cheese and is served on a toasted bun. Whereas the menu merchandise was restricted, Choi and Subject Roast signed a long-term partnership by which the chef will promote Subject Roast’s plant-based meats and cheeses to the culinary neighborhood. 

And for many who can’t make it out to a Dodgers recreation, Wienerschnitzel, or the Kogi truck, Subject Roast’s new Signature Stadium Canine turned stocked in shops this April. The plant-based scorching canines are offered in six-link packs alongside beef scorching canines at retailers nationwide. 

Vegan choices at baseball stadiums

The brand new Plant-Primarily based Dodger Canine is one in all many rising vegan choices at stadiums nationwide. Initially of the baseball season, Swedish vegan model Oatly introduced a partnership with MLB groups which can convey its hard-to-find soft serve to a number of stadiums. The oat milk-based vegan mushy serve can now be present in vanilla and chocolate flavors at Wrigley Subject in Chicago, IL (dwelling of the Chicago Cubs) and Globe Life Subject in Arlington, TX (dwelling of the Texas Rangers).

Globe Life Subject can be dwelling of an all-vegan meals cart that has been in operation since 2016. There, alongside burgers, wraps, and salads, followers can discover newly added vegan nachos that includes dairy-free queso made by Austin, TX-based model Credo Meals. 

Different stadiums additionally carry a wide range of vegan choices because of a plant-based makeover carried out in 2018 by foodservice supplier Aramark which added a number of new vegan and vegetarian choices at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, PA, Citizen Financial institution Park in Philadelphia, Citi Subject in New York Metropolis, NY, and Rogers Centre in Ontario, Canada. 

You may be taught extra about vegan choices at ballparks here.