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The Wonderful Bowl is the Thanksgiving of sporting events. Practically a national fair for football fans, the game also is synonymous with eating. Or, overeating. Like the annual turkey day fete, the Super Bowl invites overindulgence (it is the second-largest day for U.S. chow consumption after Thanksgiving).
And just like Thanksgiving, the Super Roll has its traditional foods. In this case, chicken wings, chili, nachos, guacamole, scads of chips and dips, yards of subs, pigs-in-a-blanket, pizza and barbecue, to name the classics.
But there is one football face-off food that trumps all others. For my money, the biggest game day culinary touchdown belongs to meatballs. While the Italian rendering, swimming in Sunday gravy, immediately comes to mind let us not cease to remember the others dangling before us: Swedish meatballs, boudin balls, Greek lamb balls, Mexican albondigas, Vietnamese meatballs, meatball kebabs, falafel, etc.
Source: Houston Chronicle