"Blue" Rocks

"Blue" Rocks

Okay, now I have finally popped my KC posting cherry, I would like to
share an experience that I was fortunate enough to encounter yesterday.

My girlfriend plays softball for the college we attend and they are
responsible for certain fundraising. A local Single-A baseball team is
a common host for their fundraising. This has been my fourth year
volunteering here at the stadium.

Whenever we spend our time at the ballpark we always end up working
concession, however, there were five of us who had a "special"
project. We got to work the outdoor picnic pavillion. Not only was it
a humid one hundred degrees outside, and I happened to be on vacation
from work, but I got to stand over a hot grill. I started thinking to
myself, "This is fucking bullshit!"

The manager came over to us and explained our tasks. Maybe it was the
heat and shock that I was working on a day off, but I started to
fantasize this as a Top Chef quickfire challenge. Delusion began to
blur together with reality as he said we were about to get a rush of
200+ guests.

There was a steam table and salad bar set up next to my grill. The
other volunteers were to serve the food to the guests from the steam
table. This is when I found out that the hotdogs and hamburgers were
already cooked. He explained to me that there was no way possible that
I could cook off 200 hot dogs and 200 hamburgers. I was there an hour
before they showed up. Really? Well maybe he planned on having a
Canadian from W 2nd St. coming in and wanted to be prepared... I dont
know.

This is when I was told that I had to have food on the grill at all
times. He said that it was basically for show and that it didn't
matter if I burned anything, but throw it away and put more on the
grill.

First off, I hate to throw out food and I always try and use as much
of the product as possible. Secondly, I was told to keep the burgers
and dogs on the grill, knowing that they would burn or dry out no
matter how many times they were turned. This was the complete opposite
result of what I had been acheiving in my cooking career.

Since I had to have the food on the grill, I quickly brainstormed on
how I could waste less food. I realized that the hot dogs had been
cooked on a hot dog roller and that I could mark them on the grill,
then just switch them out.

At the end of the night there was half a hotel pan of burgers, baked
beans and pulled chicken. There was a full pan of pulled pork. We were
told to throw everything away. Like Fucking really? And we wonder why
our World sucks so bad. Ignorant people! Hence the "Blue" in Blue
Rocks. They are not only bad at baseball, but terrible with food waste
and cost.