Thoughts on Super Bowl Food
If You Can't Take the Grease, Get Out of the Party
It’s kind of hard to avoid hearing about great ideas for a Super Bowl party during the week leading up to the big game. You probably know that the usual menu consists of high fat and high salt items that many people would feel too guilty eating in one sitting on a regular day. Walking into a Super Bowl party and surveying the feast you might see any and all of these possible snacks: chicken wings, ribs, chili, chips, dip, nachos, guacamole, pizza, pulled pork sandwiches, hoagies, cheesesteaks, barbecue, sliders, hot dogs, or add your favorite here __________________. Don’t forget the buckets of beer to wash down all these goodies.
It’s pretty easy to speculate that the reason for this particular menu is that Super Bowl Sunday is the day for manly men. Grunt. And no manly man is going to want to go anywhere near a salad on that day of vicarious sweating and tackling. However, I would guess that many women welcome, at least secretly, the license to indulge in food at a Super Bowl buffet that they wouldn’t normally dare to order for themselves in public. The tradition of this party gives license to guilty eating.
And that’s okay as far as I’m concerned. If you’re a little more aware of your diet choices the rest of the year, why not enjoy those guilty pleasures? As a matter of fact it annoys me when I see segments on tv that talk about healthy eating strategies for a Super Bowl Party. If you really can’t bear the thought of eating the high fat buffet, either don’t eat anything (nobody is watching what you put into your mouth) or skip the party altogether. There’s no good reason to be the wet blanket on everyone else’s fun.
Now bring on the nachos and guacamole.
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Pleasures are only guilty if you accept guilt and I will be guilt free for more than just the Superbowl. The question have is, has the importance of food overtaken the importance of the game?
I believe that may have happened a while ago. People just like a good party. Unless, of course, your hometown team is in the game.