I just received an email from the only MLB team with a food or beverage theme, the Brewers, promoting a $1 hotdog day on September 2. It’s hardly the only special food day at a ML park this summer.

Even though there are only a month’s worth of games for most minor league teams, I’m sure there are come creative food and beverage specials remaining. As I’ve posted already several minor league teams adopt alternate identities throughout the season, and most are food related. As it stands, there are five affiliated minor league teams with serious food connections and the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs regularly stress bacon even though an iron pig has nothing to do with food.

A couple local, independent league teams have a lot of fun with their team names. The Milwaukee Milkmen have several unique dairy promotions and items for sale, but the very local, Chicago Dogs do an even better job. Folks outside of Greater Chicago assume that the Dogs in question are of the four-leg variety and not the revered, iconic Chicago hotdog. While Squeeze, the primary mascot is supposed to represent mustard, it’s really a fuzzy yellow blob (hardly attractive), and Ketchup, is more of a squeezable ketchup bottle with mask and trench coat-because he is a villain in the world of Chicago dogs. The big promotion, however, revolves around the Rally Pickle and a rally pickle bobblehead. I’ve only learned of the rally pickle, but I love it.

The Brewers had their own slightly psychotic and arrhythmic Rally Rabbit, and the Angels had their rabid and not so cute Rally Monkey, but neither inspired hotdog sales.