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The Snack That Changed Baseball Forever
Though they’re a few generations removed from the dish that inspired them, ballpark nachos have an undeniable appeal. Paired with an ice-cold beer and the crack of a wooden bat, this combination of tortilla chips; liquid, neon-orange cheese; and pickled jalapeños is a quintessential part of the live-baseball experience. And it all began at Arlington Stadium, then the home of the Texas Rangers, fifty years ago this week. Three decades after being invented in Piedras Negras, Mexico, in 1943, nachos had become ubiquitous across Texas, including in San Antonio, where Frank Liberto, a self-described “bald peanut peddler,” saw them on the menu of a downtown restaurant. Ever the salesman, Liberto got the idea to create a version of the dish that could be served quickly, efficiently,…The post The Snack That Changed Baseball Forever appeared first on Texas Monthly.