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Hopefully you’ve got your party stocked and ready to go for the game tonight. We’re getting ready to fake some real enthusiasm here, and we hope you can muster it, too. But if you really couldn’t care less about the game, hopefully you can put all that spirit into the food.
If the holy trinity of chips, guacamole, and hot wings bores you, try fixing some more city specific dishes to help you and you're partiers get closer to their Midwestern team. The 180 miles between the two cities may be the shortest in Superbowl history but a little planning can make sure you don’t send the wrong impression about your football allegiance.
For Bears fans that could mean many things, but we think Chicago Dogs are the way to go. Whether you use big beef franks, or toothpick little sausages, nothing could bring you closer to the Second City then a hot dog dragged through the garden while you’re rooting for the Bears. We’ll politely refuse to say what we think should be on an official Chicago dog, and just punt the responsibility to a few other people who think they know the real deal.
For Indiana, we could only think of one food, and that’s a fried pork tenderloin sandwich. Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels apparently ate over 92 of them when he ran for office in 2004 to show his Indiana pride. And it’s simple. It’s just a small hunk of pork tenderloin that’s been pounded, breaded, and fried. What to top it with? We’re stumped. But we do like these little White Castle-like finger sandwiches that would be perfect for a big group.
Any one else have some regional options you’re preparing for the big day?
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Go Colts! As an Indiana native, I have to say that you are right about pork tenderloins being hugely popular. It seems like all my family eats at diners is the breaded pork tenderloin sandwich. And for you Bears fans, if you are eating corn chips (especially Tostitos), there's a good chance you are supporting Indiana. Indiana farmers supply a lot of the corn for the favorite Super Bowl snack.
way to feign interest in the superbowl...oh new york, you're so...above it all.
anyway, as a die hard bears fan i can reccommend a simple but tasty way to celebrate bears style with a tradition that is oft eaten on the southside at comiskey park.
Get a dozen italian sausages and hoagie buns and two large onions.
shred the onions into thin, uh, shreddings (I just take a chef's knife and cut all the way down along the length of the onion and repeat until it is completely shredded.
take a frying pan and simmer on low. throw in a whole stick of butter and the shavings. Let simmer for about 20 minutes until onions are completely carmalized and extra wet, soft and golden.
Get your favorite horseradish or dijion mustard (chicagoans do not put ketchup on any encased meat)and serve the italian sausage on a toasted hogie and then smother with dijion and then put on onions.
voila, two paragraphs to write the simplist recipie ever. but MAN it is delcious. go bears!
ok, 4 paragraphs, but it's well worth it.
oh and lastly make sure to cook the sausage in a broiler not the oven.
Great-lookin' dog.
Although I was raised in Michigan, my father's family was from Indiana and he was brought up on Fried Pork Tenderlon sandwiches (which my have contributed to his quadruple bypass at age 48). Anyway, they are delicious, and in our family, topped with mustard, pickle and, if you like, chopped onion. Haven't had one since I was a kid, but they are delicious.
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Great article on Pork Sandwiches. It is just further explanation of why those fast, and furious pork eating Colts beat those slow, and sausage eating Bears.