2.3 million pounds of your favorite baseball snack will lose
The quintessential baseball snack is likely to ruin this year because of coronavirus.
Monday, the Major League Baseball Group announced that it would beimpose a season of their own from July 24th, July 24th. If the union is distinguished from all health protocols,there can be up to 60 games to hope. However, it is very unlikelyFans will be allowed to look in stagesWhich means that suppliers will have no one to sell food to. In fact, the most classic snack snack during a baseball match may go directly to the trash.
The New York TimesReports that most of the 2.3 million pounds of integrated peanuts are currently deteriorating in cold storage. While the propagation of the coronavirus nantail in the United States caused theMLB to cancel all spring training games On March 12, farmers had already harvested peanuts for the season in October.
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"We are essentially left by holding peanuts," Tom Nolan, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Hampton Farms, saidNYT.For the context, Hampton Farms, which is based in North Carolina, is responsible for roasting and packaging the majority of peanut bags sold in stadiums.
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Now, farmers face the challenge of what to do with all peanuts than stagesalready paid for. The snack, which is usually 4 to 5 dollars with a bag, is a little more popular among the minor leagues, with about 8% of the 40 million spectators who buy a bag. As a comparison, about 6% of the spectators purchase a bag of peanuts in majors.
The peanuts of the ball ball, which are much more difficult to grow than those used to doPeanut Butter, will probably perish this year. Dan Ward, a farmer in Clarkton, North Carolina gaveNyt Overview of the complex process of growing this particular type of peanut: "You have to plant them in a loose floor with enough sand, so that the hull is brilliant," he said. "I like they shine in the bag."
With no one pronouncing the ball game this summer, millions of peanut pounds may be thrown because they will not be as delicious if they are stored for another year, when fans will be able to return to all safety at the stadium.