Dodgers News: Gordon Ramsay Shares What He'd Change About the Dodger Dog
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay was at Dodger Stadium recently filming an episode of his show MasterChef and promote the new season of Next Level Chef. After a discussion about what food you need at a Super Bowl party, a reporter asked Ramsay what he would do to make Dodger Dogs even better.
Ramsay started by saying he's eaten his share of Dodger Dogs, and the rest of his answer was very pro-LA, possibly to the point of pandering.
"These fans are loyal, man. I'll say, I've eaten about 275 of those things, so I wouldn't change something that's not broken. So, don't mess with history. Otherwise, it'll come back and bite you on the [backside] ... literally ... or run out of your [backside] quickly."
The Dodgers did change the Dodger Dog recently, of course. In 2021, after nearly 60 years being supplied by Farmer John, the team switched to Papa Cantella's, a supplier based eight miles south of Dodger Stadium in Vernon.
Ramsay seems to be saying that messing with the Dodger Dog could cause gastrointestinal distress, but on an episode of The X-Files, Agent Mulder (played by David Duchovny) said Dodger Dogs gave him "swamp gas," but Duchovny is a Yankees fan, so we'll forgive that. On the other side of the pop culture scale, the character played by noted Dodger fan Jason Bateman in Hancock says Will Smith's Hancock character was like a Dodger Dog: "It's something people don't think they're gonna like, but then they try it, and they love it!"
No word on whether Ramsay likes the Papa Cantella's version of the Dodger Dog more or less than the Farmer John version, but the best thing about a Dodger Dog will always be that eating one means you're at Dodger Stadium.
