Fine meat products cloud my mind this day.

The thing is, one of my running gags, any time I go to a baseball game is the question of "how does the hot dog giveaway reach the fans?" Or "What kind of meat gun technology does this city have?" (The original joke was when a large group of Korean businessmen were introduced at the same time the classic air-powered hot dog launcher was employed, leading to the quote "The North Koreans are here to steal our meat gun technology!" I don't understand what it means either, as past information has told us they simply don't have the ammo.)
Think of this as Jane's Defence Weekly's Guide to Meat Gun Technology.
First, the elastic launcher. This was the method employed in Erie as part of the "Smith's Provisions Wiener Catch" (Incidentally, we need more firms to enter the dying "provisions" industry. I leave the double entendres to you the consumer) Classic, effective, but it requires three crew to man it, and it's range is rather limited.
Second, the air gun. They tried using this for Erie's T-shirts, but ran into the problem that it jams easily. Again, limited range, two man crew required.
Third, the Canadian Mobile Meat Delivery Vehicle. MMDV appears to be an adapted dune buggy or jeep, or possibly a bullpen cart, with a turret mounted on the passenger side, giving added stability to its air gun, allowing for increased muzzle speed, and target range. (Its resemblance to one of the vehicles in Halo may or may not be intentional.) The MMDV was first observed in Olympic Stadium in Montreal, and was also employed in Columbus.
Finally, we have reports of a gigantic tube which apparently can be raised and lowered for targeting purposes, located in the right field foul area of Columbus Cooper Stadium. This may be the first long range meat gun, possibly the first Intercontinental Ballistic Meatgun (or ICBM). More research is obviously required.

Much less effective on the meat gun technology scale was another promotion tried at Erie, and I'm just going to take it straight out of the program.

PENNSYLVANIA BEEF COUNCIL COOKOUT CONTEST
Two teams of two will be selected to compete against each other every game at the bottom of the second inning. One teammate will stand on the dugout while the other stands on the field. The teammate on the dugout will flip steaks using a spatula over their heasds while their teammate tried to catch it wearing over-sized pants. At the end of 30 seconds, the team with the most patties will recieve a prize.

Yes, folks, you have to catch the meat products in your oversized pants. Yes, they are not actually meat products, but plastic dog toys that look like meat products. Yes, that substitution in no way dimishes from the absolute mother lode of subtext this generates as you watch. Yes, this is apparently Pennsylvania's answer to Beef Quiz Bowl.

Finally, there's only one comment to this story. "I could have also accepted 'snacktacular'."

Actual Quiz Bowl Content
1 Timeline of modern Turkey
2 A history of Canadian Confederation
3 Biography of Andrei Sakharov