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Sports teams are constantly dreaming up ways to enhance the almighty Fan Experience for people who attend a game in person, and offering unique items at the concession stands can be a great way to check that box. TCU is trying to do that by selling a purple corn dog at football games, although it somehow ignored the fact that the end product literally looks like a piece of poop.
Hot dogs, popcorn, and soft pretzels are some of the first items that spring to mind when it comes to the usual suspects you can usually pick from if you make the trek to a sporting event. However, many arenas and stadiums have made a concerted effort to expand their culinary horizons to help lure in fans and make some money in the process.
That includes many college football teams that offer regional staples and unique items they’ve come to be associated with. For example, LSU serves up bowls of jambalaya, Mississippi State fans can grab some boiled peanuts at Davis Wade Stadium, and BYU sells thousands of 16-inch-long donuts known as “Cougar Tails” at each home game.
TCU has also attempted to enter the conversation ahead of its first home game of the 2025 season with the unique corn dog fans at Amon G. Carter Stadium will be able to order, but they may have overlooked a fairly critical optical issue before rolling it out.
TCU is selling a purple corn dog that literally looks like poop
Every chef will tell you taste is only one aspect that needs to be taken into consideration when it comes to designing a menu item, and anyone who’s watched enough episodes of Chopped is aware presentation is also a fairly crucial element.
Corn dogs tend to be a crowd-pleasing offering when you consider it’s hard to screw up a hot dog surrounded by deep-fried batter, and South Korea has earned a reputation for putting its own twist on the American classic with a coating that typically features panko crumbs and/or chunks of French fries.
This season, TCU decided to put a twist on that twist by harnessing ube, a purple yam that is frequently deployed in Filipino cuisine, for the “Half Acre Korean Corn Dog” that features a hot dog surrounded by mozzarella cheese dipped in batter that matches the football team’s primary color, which is fried, dusted with ube powder, and and drizzled with hot honey.
so much hot dog chatter … might as well introduce the 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗳 𝗔𝗰𝗿𝗲 𝗞𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝗗𝗼𝗴 in Section 109
A hot dog + mozzarella cheese combo dipped in ube batter, fried in panko, dusted with ube powder, and drizzled with a sweet and spicy honey
try it this weekend… pic.twitter.com/KYn80dkTAa
— TCU Athletics (@TCU_Athletics) September 10, 2025
Does it sound pretty tasty? Yes. Does it also totally, definitely look like something you’d deposit in the toilet after drinking the delicious wine you can buy after getting sewn into the pants of the big Charlie Brown at the Thanksgiving Day Parade? Even more so.
Plenty of people who came across that picture shared a similar sentiment, with one critic noting it resembles “a turd after a grape snowcone,” another describing it as “poop from a butt on a stick that has been spray-painted purple,” and a third opting for a slightly more straightforward “absolutely disgusting.”