It’s here! The day of THE BIG GAME.
(Don’t you just love that? The NFL has taken these ordinary words “Super Bowl” and “Super Sunday” and made them registered trademarks of the NFL, so you can’t use them except for when they are legitimate “news” items or used in commentary, so they fall under the fair use doctrine, whatever that means.)*
*Warning: I am not an attorney or anyone who remotely has any training in copyright, trade marking, patenting, etc. But I do love fine print!
It is a day of food, glorious food, and drink; a day that contributes heavily to America’s being, well... heavy.
I imagine that all over this country, chickens (mostly the wings) and pigs (mostly the ribs) are telling those who have escaped harm that they are so lucky - until next year. Thousands have been sacrificed for our Big Game watching appetites. Baked, broiled, BBQ’d, fried and grilled, basted, marinated, rubbed, battered, buttered, spicy, house on fire hot, cooled with a side of buttermilk ranch. About the only no-no for today is steaming!
Of course, there are the odd-ball pizza lovers: deep-dish, thin-crust, filled crust, whole wheat crust, (no, I suppose that one is not for this BIG GAME-loving crowd), double cheese, double pepperoni, sausage, meatball, mushrooms, onions, peppers, and – hold the, pineapple, please.
There are bowls full of quaint and old-fashioned potato chips and pretzels, along with tortilla chips, tortilla bowls, blue corn tortillas, lime tortilla chips, nacho chips, lounging close to their pools of dip: seven-layer, guacamole, French onion, black bean, hummus, and salsa. Did I mention cheese? Mozzarella, pepperjack, and Colby jack, Swiss, and cheddar? Fried, sliced, cubed, melted and shredded.
Don’t forget the drink station – Anheuser-Busch’s “Black Friday” – so to speak. The STAR of the day: BEER, BEER, BEER
TRIVIA or trivial: According to the Wikipedia article, “Budweiser”: In 1876, Adolphus Busch and his friend Carl Conrad, a liquor importer, developed a "Bohemian-style" lager, inspired after a trip to the region. Brewers in Bohemia (today's Czech Republic) generally named a beer after their town with the suffix "er." Beers produced in the town of Pilsen (today's Plzeň), for example, were called Pilsners. Busch and Conrad had visited another town, only 104 km (65 mi) south of Pilsen, also known for its breweries: Budweis (or Böhmisch Budweis, today's České Budějovice). Beer has been brewed in Budweis since it was founded as Budiwoyz by king Ottokar II of Bohemia in 1245. The name Budweiser is genitive, meaning "of Budweis." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_(Anheuser-Busch)
There are also the lesser stars of the day: margaritas, tequila and lime, red wine, wine coolers, rum & coke, bloody Marys, martinis. Take a pass on the Mimosas today, please.Let the Super Bowl begin! (So sue me, NFL)
Is it unAmerican to say, "I'm not a fan of Super Bowl Sunday". Ok. Maybe "unAmerican" is too strong but I really don't get it. People who don't like, understand or even know the players or teams make a big deal about this. In other words, (almost) perfectly sane people go a little crazy. Are they letting off steam? Trying not to think about being unemployed for 4 years? Giving themselves an excuse for eating 5,000 calories in a three hours period of time and then wonder why they can't sleep? Who knows. The only thing that makes it bearable for me is the tequila or martini part. Pass the glass!!!!!
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