Lindy Davidson

As is fitting for the season, the Lunchroom Bandit decided to review her two favorite concession stands.  Unfortunately, I haven’t had much concession stand experience lately, but with 3 small boys, I’m sure those days are just around the corner.  However, I do remember two of my favorite concession stand experiences.  One was in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where the concession stand was more like a walk-up cafeteria.  You could get a quarter of a chicken for 75 cents.  This was at a youth-league baseball game.  They had fresh bread and soup and all kinds of homemade food.  It was a welcome change from plastic cheese nachos and stale popcorn.  My other fondest concession stand memory was in my home town of Paducah, Kentucky where my father coached a baseball team.  When I was a kid, Jim and Peggy ran the concession stand and Peggy made burgers on a griddle in the back.  My sister and I called them “Peggy Burgers.”  They were smooshed flat and probably grade C meat, but we thought they were the BEST!  After Peggy and Jim retired from the lucrative business of selling concessions at youth baseball games, my mom had to take it over.  In addition to being “team mom”, our mom, the coach’s wife, and the statistician, she also got the privilege of running the concession stand.  Peggy burgers were no more.  My mom made hot dogs in a crock pot and stopped the sale of bubble gum because she had stepped in it and sat in it too many times.  (As a school teacher, she had a natural disdain for Super Bubble.)  My mom had no love for the sales of concessions, and it showed (sorry Mom, I know you’re one of the three people who actually read my blog).  On the upside, my sister and I got to work in the concession stand, which we considered great fun, almost as much fun as eating a Peggy Burger.

–L.D.

At tea ball they have: hotdogs, candy pizza, boiled peanuts, hamburgers, and soda. At soccer they have . . . tea, air heads, and hot chocolate. Those two concessions are my favorite food stands. The End.

–L.B.