{"id":234386,"date":"2026-04-04T02:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/234386\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T02:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:22:08","slug":"did-you-know-ballpark-nachos-made-their-debut-in-north-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/234386\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know ballpark nachos made their debut in North Texas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/rangers\/onsi\/news\/how-to-watch-rangers-home-opener-vs-reds-tv-channel-live-stream-radio\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Opening Day for the Texas Rangers<\/a> at Globe Life Field in Arlington.<\/p>\n<p>One of the joys of attending a game in person is the food \u2014 we&#8217;re talking hot dogs, beer and of course, ballpark nachos. <\/p>\n<p>The spicy, cheesy game-time snack made its debut right here in North Texas 50 years ago at Arlington Stadium, the former home of the Texas Rangers. <\/p>\n<p>Amy McCarthy wrote about the story behind the invention of ballpark nachos in her piece for Texas Monthly titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/food\/fifty-years-of-ballpark-nachos-texas-rangers\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;The Snack That Changed Baseball Forever.&#8221;<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>She recently spoke to KERA&#8217;s Miranda Suarez and Ron Corning about how Frank Liberto came up with his idea and why ballpark nachos are now a staple at stadiums across the country. <\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the conversation by clicking the &#8216;listen&#8217; button above. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday is Opening Day for the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Field in Arlington. One of the joys&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-234386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}