Super Bowl Snack Foods

Super Bowl is a numero uno when it comes to snack food consumption. Americans are crazy about it with more than 130 million viewers turning in to watch it always. It has become the most watched American television broadcast in recent years. Super Bowl snacks are generally eaten during the National Football League (NFL) championship games. These snack foods are not considered eco-friendly or healthy but, you cannot do without them in a Super Bowl. Potato chips and colas were few items that made a global impact years before, thanks to their introduction to Super Bowl. But, chips and colas have become a snack food of the past. Below are few latest great Super Bowl snack foods.

Dips
The advantage of Dips is that they can be prepared in thousands of ways and can consumed hot or cold. They are condiments that are used to savor finger foods like dumplings, bread, crackers, raw vegetables, seafood, cheese, potato chips, etc. Unlike other sausages that are poured at the top of the food, here the food is dipped into the mixture.

Salsa
Not to be confused with a style of dancing, Salsa which means 'sauce' in Spanish and Italian, is a Mexican food that ranges from mild, sweet to spicy taste. It can be used as a dip almost for any food (especially chips). Traditionally, potatoes were used as a base but, their growing popularity over time led chefs to experiment and use variety of foods such as pineapple, corn and mango. Did you know that salsa outsells ketchup in the US!

Pretzels
Pretzels are wheat-based doughs that are shaped into a knot, dipped in baking soda solution, sprinkled with salt, and later baked. Most of the packaged pretzels are hard and vary in thickness. They actually originated in Germany and France, but have slowly gained a foothold as a Super Bowl snack in the US.

Pizza
Nothing can beat the Super Bowl Pizzas that is served during the Super Bowl football game. There is no doubt that pizza is a number one Super Bowl food. There are varied flavors of pizza with different toppings. They are served in slices. Some ingredients that you require for a good pizza are:

• Ground beef
• Fresh, ground spicy pork sausage
• American cheese
• Hot pepper sauce
• Packaged cocktail rye bread

Hamburgers
The food that looks to have been made especially to be eaten while watching a sport is a Hamburger. They are barbecued, fries, grilled or broiled ground beef, that are put inside a sandwich. With their increasing popularity even turkey, ground lamb and chicken have replaced the ground beef. They are topped with bacon, lettuce, mayonnaise, pickles, onions, avocados, mustard and more.

Hotdogs
Composed of beef or pork, hotdogs are link sausages, that are created by a variety of meat combination. Turkey and tofu are also a preferred combination. Hotdogs became famous from Frankfurt, Germany, where the concept of eating a sausage within a bun originated.

Not only these, but other foods like Hors D'oeuvre, chicken wings, chili, nachos, etc. are also famous Super Bowl snack foods preferred by people. Whatever snack you desire to have, one thing remains common that is taken with all these foods. Guess what? Yes, it's none other than beer. The culture of having a beer during the game is common and popular beverage in the US.