Tell the Inquirer about the best and weirdest food you’ve brought into Citizens Bank Park
Citizens Bank Park allows spectators to bring their own food inside for Phillies games. We want to know what foods you're bringing in — and if they hold up for all nine innings.
Why pay $54.99 for a box of tiny hot dogs and baby beers for the nine-nine-nine challenge at a Phillies game when you can bring your own full-sized hot dogs?
Citizens Bank Park allows spectators to bring in pretty much whatever food they want for a Phillies game, so long as its sealed and fits inside a stadium-approved 12″ by 6″ by 12″ clear bag.
It’s a hack that has allowed baseball fans to skate around sky high prices for food, but it’s also expanded the the types of things we’d consider suitable for a night at the ballpark.
At the Inquirer, we want to know: What’s the best — or most unhinged — food you’ve brought inside Citizens Bank Park, and how’d it hold up?
Yes, you can bring in your favorite cheesesteaks or hoagie, or as many hot dogs as your heart desires, but that’s small-time thinking for the Phillies fans who have successfully smuggled in whole rotisserie chickens, sushi, bags of spaghetti, and a whole birthday cake, with varying degrees of success.
(Liquids are more of a challenge, since only sealed bottles of water are allowed. But if you found a way to bring soup—please tell us.)
Fill out the form below to tell us your favorite Citizens Bank Park food hack. And if your ballpark snack is included in future articles, an Inquirer reporter may follow up.