Secret Stadium Sauce is a

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popular at

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baseball games in

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. Originally developed for use at

Milwaukee County Stadium Milwaukee County Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Opened in 1953 Milwaukee Braves season, 1953, it was primarily a baseball park for Major League Baseball's Milwaukee Braves and later the Milwaukee Brewers. It was also ...

, it is still served on

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and brats at its replacement,

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. It is a product of Delaware North Companies Sportservice and is sold in 18-ounce bottles at grocery stores throughout Wisconsin.

Origins

It was created in the early 1970s by former Delaware North Companies Sportservice President Rick Abramson, then a vendor at County Stadium, during a game when he ran short of other condiments. The sauce gained popularity in the 1980s when baseball broadcaster Bob Costas expressed his love for the sauce on bratwurst at Brewer games and mentioned how he and fellow broadcaster

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traded broadcasting duties during games so they could eat brats with the sauce during the broadcasts. In addition to being used as a condiment, the bottle's label also includes a recipe for consumers to use the sauce as a marinade. The flavor has inspired comparisons, from "a combination of barbecue sauce and sauerkraut juice" to "a mix of clam juice and sweetened tomato sauce".

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personality Adam Richman has described the taste as a "mix between chili sauce, cocktail sauce, barbecue sauce, and ketchup."

References

External links

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''USA Today'', "10 great places to relish fine stadium fare"

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20070203101502/http://www.delawarenorth.com/NewsRoom/media/DNC_news/Final_Delaware.pdf Sportservice internal publication, featuring article on Abramson
"Hot Dogs as America" article from "Baseball as America" exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History

"Spice it Up", ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel''
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