But when someone brought up the coney island, Fielder had no trouble remembering those tasty hot dogs.
"Coney island? Yeah, definitely," he said with a wide smile. "I definitely can't be eating there too much. But I definitely remember it. I think my kids are going to enjoy it a lot more than I will."
That would be Fielder's sons, Jadyn, 7, and Haven, 5. Jadyn sat next to his dad at the podium during the news conference at Comerica Park announcing Fielder's $214-million, nine-year deal. Haven, a bit too shy, sat with his mother, Chanel, in the first row.
But don't worry. Dad will get a couple of coneys. Contrary to popular belief, Fielder is not a vegetarian, and he wanted to dispel that notion right away.
"Let's do this now," he said. "I'm not a vegetarian. Let's just do that. Let's just knock that out. Just write it down.
"I was for three months. But once it became if I didn't hit two home runs, I was just like, 'You know what? I'm over it.' "
Chanel, 27, provided the impetus for Fielder's short-lived vegetarianism. She bought the diet book "Skinny Bitch" a few years ago on a plane trip back from Los Angeles. Fielder, 5-feet-11 and 275 pounds, read it even before his wife.
"It wasn't that he was a full-fledged vegetarian," Chanel said. "He just didn't eat a lot of red meat and pork."
And when the most minor fluctuation in Fielder's power occurred in Milwaukee, his diet was blamed.
"He read the book, and I guess it spoke to him; I guess, obviously, the cruelty and everything else like that," Chanel said. "He tried it, and he didn't have much support behind it, and he moved on."