Here's my story about the Baltimore food tour the folks from Delaware North, the new Camden Yards vendors, took on a chilly Tuesday afternoon. I saw a few "It's the crab cake, stupid" comments under the article itself.
Look, these guys have heard of crab cakes. There will be crab cakes at Camden Yards. They also know that most ballpark customers have probably had a crab cake before. They also know that people will only pay and wait so long for a freshly prepared premium crab cake, and that guests on the suite level will likely pay more and wait longer for a freshly prepared premium crab cake.
The idea that the creative search for a unique, stadium-only food-item begins and ends with a crab cake is not so productive.
The photo of Delaware North president Rick Abramson chatting with
owner Marc Attman
in the Kibbitzer Room is mine (hence the red eye). Abramson met a lot of charmers on his tour of Baltimore, but Attman wasn't trying to charm him.