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Any Indianaplolis Colts Fans Out There?

SlowMovinBeach Fanatic
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I'm a Saints fan myself, but the Colts just won the AFC title. Congratulations. They played a great game and deserved the win.

Now to business. We're having our annual Super Bowl party and--as always--we always try to serve food that somehow represents the teams playing. Of course, the Saints will be easy (crawfish pie, jambalaya and filet gumbo). Should the unthinkable happen and Minnesota go to the big one--Swedish Meatballs.

But what foods are big or symbolic of Indianapolis? Someone suggested I find horsemeat (Colts...get it?) but I'd rather do something not quite that out there. Of course, when Chicago made their appearance a few years ago, we actually did serve bear meat that a hunter friend gave us, but that's a whole 'nother story.

So far, my Google searches have turned up breaded pork tenderloin sandwiches. They sound pretty good. Or I could just go to For the Health of It and buy a bunch of that corn (Indiana is the farm state, after all).

But if there is anyone out there who is knowledgeable regarding cuisine de Indiana and might have some other ideas I would love to hear from you.

Thanks in advance.

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Mermaidpicky
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I'm a Saints fan myself, but the Colts just won the AFC title. Congratulations. They played a great game and deserved the win.

Now to business. We're having our annual Super Bowl party and--as always--we always try to serve food that somehow represents the teams playing. Of course, the Saints will be easy (crawfish pie, jambalaya and filet gumbo). Should the unthinkable happen and Minnesota go to the big one--Swedish Meatballs.

But what foods are big or symbolic of Indianapolis? Someone suggested I find horsemeat (Colts...get it?) but I'd rather do something not quite that out there. Of course, when Chicago made their appearance a few years ago, we actually did serve bear meat that a hunter friend gave us, but that's a whole 'nother story.

So far, my Google searches have turned up breaded pork tenderloin sandwiches. They sound pretty good. Or I could just go to For the Health of It and buy a bunch of that corn (Indiana is the farm state, after all).

But if there is anyone out there who is knowledgeable regarding cuisine de Indiana and might have some other ideas I would love to hear from you.

Thanks in advance.

Anyone could tell you that what I know about football could fit on the head of a pin, but I do know my cooking! And to get you going in the right direction, take a look at our newspaper's food pages which, as you can imagine, have plenty of hints on what to make for the game.

IndyStar.com | Food & Drink | The Indianapolis Star

Chili is always big and you must have cookies or cupcakes with royal blue and white frosting or anything else you can manage to display the team colors. Like a celebratory blue curacao cocktail, of course. :clap:
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JdargSoWal Expert
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Where did my popcorn post go- I wasn't kidding! Indiana grows popcorn!!

http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/afcm/popcorn.html

Popcorn is a special kind of flint corn that was selected by Indians in early western civilizations. Although U.S. commercial popcorn production has always been centered in the Corn Belt, the major growing areas within this region have shifted over the years. Up to the mid 1940s, Iowa was the number one producer, with both production and processing plants concentrated in the western part of the state. Then, as popcorn hybrids began replacing open-pollinated varieties, production shifted eastward, first to Illinois and then to Indiana. Another major shift occurred in the mid 1970s when production jumped back to the west, so that Nebraska is now the leading popcorn producer.
Total U.S. popcorn acreage over the 5-year period 1977-81 averaged 189,000 acres per year, with 55% of that total in Nebraska and Indiana, and another 25% in Iowa, Ohio and Illinois.

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