Oct. 30, 2025 7 AM PT
To the editor: As a 74-year-old with few pleasures left in life, I used to go to Dodger Stadium for the only real goal of throwing warning to the wind and indulging within the delicacy of a Farmer John scorching canine smothered with mustard and onions. However no extra. Workers author James Rainey is totally appropriate when he writes that “followers have been grumbling since Farmer John stopped supplying the staff’s signature scorching canine again in 2021” (“Dodger Dogs taste bleh. So what stadium food options won’t break the bank?,” Oct. 16). It’s me; I’ve been grumbling since 2021.
The brand new scorching canine are horrible. You couldn’t pay Joey Chestnut to eat one. Farmer John scorching canine, in the meantime, are the filet mignon of the recent canine world and have been synonymous with the Dodger group since 1958. I had my first one at Dodger Stadium in 1966, when Don Drysdale was on the mound. The Farmer John scorching canine have a singular style, taste and texture that I all the time regarded ahead to throughout my visits to the stadium.
The brand new vendor has by no means been capable of attain these heights. It’s surprising that the Dodgers are keen to pay their gamers this yr roughly $321 million and so they simply couldn’t carry themselves to chop a cope with Farmer John. Deliver again Farmer John; till then, I’ll root for the Dodgers at dwelling.
Lawrence Awbrey, Woodland Hills
