12.50 Euro for the hotdog "deal" in croke park

[tyssam5]

So what do you get for the E12.50??

[Donagh]

Was my da just a cnut?

No, your sister is too soft in that the kids constantly try it on.

[Hound]

Apart from anything else, the hot dogs at Croke Park are possibly the most horrible tasting things I've ever eaten in my life.

I had a burger last weekend there (€5.25), and it was definitely more horrible than the hot dog I had the previous time.

[deiseach]

Is there some problem with that G? If you take children out to a shopping centre do you buy them everything they want? 

Children love the novelty of buying hot dogs at a match. There's nothing novel about going to a shopping centre - although there might be in your Dickensian world view

I paid £6.50 for a meal deal at Wembley recently which wasn't too bad. Certainly makes €12 look steep

[Jim_Murphy_74]

It must be a Celtic Tiger thing that people are embarrassed to bring sandwiches to a match anymore.

Anytime I travelled with the auld lad to an away game, two lots were brought.  You ate out of the boot when you parked up and brought the tin-foiled wrapped sambos and fizzy orange to the game.  If it was an All-Ireland the auld lad would get Mars bars at half-time.   Apart from that you didn't ask.

I do the same these days(which raised eye-brows last time in Croker) and the kids are happy with that.  

/Jim.

[pintsofguinness]

Is there some problem with that G? If you take children out to a shopping centre do you buy them everything they want? 

Children love the novelty of buying hot dogs at a match. There's nothing novel about going to a shopping centre - although there might be in your Dickensian world view

I paid £6.50 for a meal deal at Wembley recently which wasn't too bad. Certainly makes €12 look steep

Not the ones I know, all I know is if I bring the nephews to a shop and listened to them it would cost me a fortune, however I simply tell them they're not getting any shit toys that will break before their home and don't even think about craving at me and it works fine, they dont.  Same with hotdogs in Croke park.  12 euro is a rip off but it's mad to suggest people have no choice, it's not Croke Parks problem if someone can't control their kids or can't watch a game without the need to eat and is too good to bring something in with them.

[rrhf]

I had to buy 4 of them  - 48 euro wasnt too bad - this is the bankrupt South after all. 

[bcarrier]

Deal was ...

Large hot dog
Bottle of coke
Bag of crisps ( i think)
Maynards wine gums



Fair play to you Jim.

[irunthev]

No kids myself but just had friends staying last night who have three kids all under the age of six. How do they cope? Total respect to anyone with kids. The place was like a bomb site after they had left. The kids were only awake in the house for about 4 hours and I have just spent the last four hours cleaning up after them.

[Gaffer]

This has turned interesting and into another debate, it seems. When I was a kid, my da took me to loads of matches, all over the country. Club games, county games. Some not even involving my own club or county. Thinking back, I would have passed a fair few ice cream vans, shops etc but never asked for anything as I knew the answer would be no. Some kids my age used to bring their hurls for a puck about on the sideline. I remember asking my da could I bring my hurl and he said "No, you're there to watch the match". I said to my sister that I would bring my nephews to the Ulster final and she said "No, after 10 minutes they'd have you tortured looking for the shop etc" (which is probably true). I don't understand this?

Was my da just a cnut?

Your da was just like most das at that time. Thats the way it should still be but unfortunately its not .

[irunthev]

This has turned interesting and into another debate, it seems. When I was a kid, my da took me to loads of matches, all over the country. Club games, county games. Some not even involving my own club or county. Thinking back, I would have passed a fair few ice cream vans, shops etc but never asked for anything as I knew the answer would be no. Some kids my age used to bring their hurls for a puck about on the sideline. I remember asking my da could I bring my hurl and he said "No, you're there to watch the match". I said to my sister that I would bring my nephews to the Ulster final and she said "No, after 10 minutes they'd have you tortured looking for the shop etc" (which is probably true). I don't understand this?

Was my da just a cnut?

Your da was just like most das at that time. Thats the way it should still be but unfortunately its not .

I'm sure Freud would come up with some crap about the parents of today resenting the fact that their parents denied them so many treats and now we lavish stuff on our kids to make up for the shortcomings of our own childhood. He probably would have thrown something in too about wanting to ride some queer one too when we were three and a half...... he seemed to manage to get around to that for most topics.

[deiseach]

This has turned interesting and into another debate, it seems. When I was a kid, my da took me to loads of matches, all over the country. Club games, county games. Some not even involving my own club or county. Thinking back, I would have passed a fair few ice cream vans, shops etc but never asked for anything as I knew the answer would be no. Some kids my age used to bring their hurls for a puck about on the sideline. I remember asking my da could I bring my hurl and he said "No, you're there to watch the match". I said to my sister that I would bring my nephews to the Ulster final and she said "No, after 10 minutes they'd have you tortured looking for the shop etc" (which is probably true). I don't understand this?

Was my da just a cnut?

Not buying you anything doesn't make him a cnut. Not letting you have a puckaround though . . .

[Gnevin]

I pity people with kids who have no real option when it comes to this .

They have no option but to buy a 12 euro hotdog?

Have you ever been around kids before? Do you know annoying and persistent they can be.

Yes, and you tell them no, or bring them in some sweets and tell them they'll get a hot dog on the way home! 

Great problem solved so. You just you write a book on how to be the world's best parent .

Is there some problem with that G? If you take children out to a shopping centre do you buy them everything they want? 

Id say the children would be more interested in sweets than hotdogs anyway.

Of course not but I was making a point about pester power until Dr P(hil)OG the worlds great parent told me how it's done

[pintsofguinness]

I was never allowed to pester my parents, my nephews arent allowed to pester their parents, why are croke park responsible when children rule their parents lives?

[Tony Baloney]

I'm forced at gunpoint to agree with Pints. If you feel you have no option but to buy kids a 12.50 hotdog meal then there is a problem. Not with the hotdog vendors - they're chancing their arm, not with the kids - they're just being kids, but with you.