Super Bowl Spreads – 2025

At the end of last Sunday’s food adventure I indicated that this week’s food adventure would involve Indian food. I decided to bump that food adventure a week and concentrate on the spreads at the 2 Super Bowl parties I attended. Get to them while the memories are still fresh in my mind.

Like last year, I attended a party hosted by Logan (although this year it was at the Stenslands) for the beginning and the end of the game. Then I watched the middle of the game and the glorious halftime show out at Scottie D.’s.

I don’t know I have anything to say about the game itself. It was a complete bloodbath. The checks the Chiefs write to the refs every week must have bounced that week. It really wasn’t even worth watching and the Chiefs should be almost as embarrassed as they should be for their racist cultural appropriation and their America hating hijacking of the “Star Spangled Banner” for the effort they put out in the Super Bowl. On the positive, the great American nightmare of the Chiefs as the Champions is over! Maybe I can turn on my television and not see Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce for like 5 minutes now!

Another positive is that since the game was such a dud, I wasn’t really obligated to pay any attention to it about 5 minutes into the game. I was able to concentrate on eating and socializing with friends and family.

Here are some pictures from the parties:

The Degeneffes!

Not going to break down THE GOOD, THE BAD, and THE UGLY of the Super Bowl Spreads. Obviously it is great having so many wonderful friends and families. What the heck! Let’s do it any ways.

THE GOOD

• So many good friends and family to hang out with.
• The Chiefs lost.
• The return of lumpia to my life.
• The game was such a dud I wasn’t obligated to pay attention to it.
• Wings! Ribs! Sliders! Cookies!
• Jon Batiste’s performance of THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER, and he didn’t desecrate it like Chief fans do.
• Kendrick Lamar owning Drake and pedophiles around the world.
• My favorite Super Bowl tradition, listening to old people complain about the Super Bowl Halftime Show.
• That Post Malone really knows his cookies!
• A low key winner was Johnathan’s jalapeno poppers!
• Seeing a guy from Odebolt, Iowa score a touchdown in the Super Bowl was pretty cool.

THE BAD

• The Eagles won. Listen, everybody in America is sick of the Chiefs and their garbage human being place kicker, but nobody wanted to see the Eagles win either. Not even me. But I didn’t want a meteor to hit New Orleans. Maybe if the game was in Orlando…So somebody had to win. But still, not happy it had to be the Eagles.
• I ate so much food. Too much food. I’m gross. Don’t look at me.
• Why don’t we do this for sports events I actually care about? The Final Four!
• The game. I didn’t really care that much who won, but at least have some suspense still in the 2nd quarter. That shouldn’t be too much to ask.

THE UGLY

• I’m not going to call anybody out, but there were people at one of the parties that thought that SZA was Brandy. Didn’t know who Serena Williams was. And, perhaps worst of all Scarecrow, thought that Aerosmith should do the halftime show. Okay Boomer.
• Logan has no clue what an eagle sounds like and frankly I’m embarrassed for him.

THE DAMAGE

• I completely freeloaded at Scott’s party. Sorry Scott. I’ll do better next year. At the Logan/Stensland I brought a shrimp platter and some pretzel bites with cheese dip. Not pictured, you’ll have to take my word for it. The 2 combined ran me a $40 spot.

THE VERDICT

• Last year, you may recall that my favorite food was the sliders Melissa made (Last Year) and there were sliders at the Scottie D. party again this year. Melissa didn’t make them, but they were still excellent. But my winner for best Super Bowl food this year wasn’t really a fair competition. There is a lot of sentimentality in this pick. It was the lumpia that Teresa made. It was one the favorite things my Mom used to make. I have very specific strong memories of this food. It involves eating it while watch reruns of “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” If you are wondering what is in Lumpia…
• 1 lb hamburger, 1/2 lb pork, 1 tsp garlic salt, 4 good shakes soy sauce; 1/4 tsp pepper, and 1 bunch green onions (diced)
• Mix real well. Make in a small bowl and wrap in wonton wrappers. Brush with beaten egg around the wonton wrapper and wrap like an envelope. Fry in butter. Can be made ahead and frozen. Dip in soy sauce.

HOW YOU EAT THERE

• I can probably invite you. I know I can take at least a +1 to my family Super Bowl Party and pretty sure I could do the same with Scott. At least I think I’m in good enough with him to do such a thing. Although Scott is going to deny that he is having a Super Bowl Party until about 4 days before he has a Super Bowl Party and then he will insist you don’t call it a party. “An intimate gathering of friends”.

Next Sunday I will get to that Indian restaurant!