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agreed

I don't like hot dogs but they seem to be the best bang for your buck

or your nickel 

I am amazed what a hotdog can cost in a simple restaurant.  At MB Stadium here they are $1.50 each, which is rather amazing considering.

that price seems reasonable to me

Yeah, I saw the price and was shocked.  I had eaten ahead of the game, but I ordered one to make sure the price was accurate.  

Super Bowl: Why Mercedes-Benz Stadium's concession prices are so low (usatoday.com)
Super Bowl: Why Mercedes-Benz Stadium's concession prices are so low (usatoday.com)

I had not idea they were moving the port.  Looks like Galveston will be it.

I wonder why they decided to change docking location.

Winter '23 update on Battleship Texas.


https://youtu.be/uN8yPqVw7pM

I'd like to see them park it right next to the USS Lexington in Corpus Christi.

Beaumont is kinda lame, so that's my take on why this can't be a thing.  That city shouldn't have a cool battleship.

But as long as Baton Rouge keeps the U.S.S. Kidd, I'm okay.  If that take that away, that's multiple hours and trips of my childhood gone.

One of my stepsons was in Air Force JROTC in high school, and his group took a weekend trip to Baton Rouge to spend the night bunking on the Kidd.
Baton Rouge's Destroyer Kidd (DD-661) is a WWII Fletcher-class destroyer. It was named for the first U.S. Navy admiral to be killed in action. Admiral Isaac Kidd was killed aboard USS Arizona on 7 Dec 1941.
There have been two more Kidds. DDG-993 was the lead ship of a class of four guided-missile destroyers built for Iran. After the Iranian revolution of 1979 ended our friendly relationship with that country, we cancelled the order and kept them. One nickname for that group of four is the "Ayatollah" class because of the Iran connection. Another is the "Dead Admiral" class, because all four were named for admirals killed in WWII. They were designed with extra air conditioning and air filtration to handle the heat and dust of the Persian Gulf, so they spent a lot of their time in service in the Middle East. All four were sold to Taiwan in 2003. I landed an OH-58C aboard DDG-993 off of Grenada in Oct 1983 and took the exec and the ship's surgeon on an aerial tour of the island. Meanwhile, my copilot was hitting the ship's store for patches and other souvenirs.
Currently, USS Kidd (DDG-100), an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer commissioned in 2007, is serving proudly as part of Carrier Strike Group 1, headed up by USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70).