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THE FOOD

Fry the thing already....

It wouldn't be wrong if you decided to use another meat, or not-meant for that matter, but there needs to be a theme.  The beauty of Fútbol y Football is the thousand voices singing as one, or the five guys or the twenty guys, cooking with the same intent and purpose.  Our Fútbol y Football is centered on pork.  The beauty of the pig is you get bacon, you get ribs, you get chops, you get belly, you get virginia ham, you get prosciutto, you get panchetta, you get serrano, you get scrapple, you get pork roll, and you get SPAM.  Like the beautiful game, its a slow build up of team play that pauses to applaud the individual effort.  Show your skill, your innovation and creativity, and bring something to the table, tell a story.  This isn't a chicken wing and pizza Super Bowl party, FyF is as much a culinary celebration as it is a sport celebration.  Here are some examples to get you started.

BREAKFAST

New Jersey is known for mobsters, waste management and pork roll.  It's the SPAM/SCRAPPLE/PORK MEAT PRODUCT that they favor on that side of the Delaware.  Every year John orders a log from the Garden State, three feet of overly processed pork feet, ears and tail.   Cooked on the griddle at 7AM, the pork roll is complimented by a fried egg and a slice of American cheesefood, because it's America and we are drinking before breakast.  The breakfast trinity is best served over a hamburger bun, or an english muffin if you are feeling fancy, and maybe a dollop of Ketchup.  This sandwich provides the perfect stomach lining, heart stopping, sodium bomb start to your Fútbol y Football day.  Bon Appetit.

10AM SNACK

It's about menu planning.  Just like the beer, you need to focus on the meal progression...bearing in mind that it is a marathon not a race.  Last year it was Bacon and Bourbon Pimento cheese dip served with crostini and pretzels. A dish is inspired by a recent trip to the heart of college football and blending the beneficial stomach coating properties of cheese and mayonnaise with the necessary blood pressure elevating blend of bacon and pimentos necessary to quicken pulses through the close of fútbol and into football.  It may also be a good time to put out a cured meat plate - serrano, proscuitto, salamni, sausages, you get the idea.  The second slate of matches have started, people are starting to get drunk, feed them, feed them well.

LUNCH

The games are heading to sport climax, with the featured EPL game (surprise, it's Chelsea) and the afternoon kickoff of college football colliding in a strange, guttural, and slightly uncomfortable Anglo-American shout.  Don't feel pressure to make harmony of the dissonance.  Embrace it.  You force the worlds together.  Meat Pies and Bacon sandwiches.  Overflowing pork nacho tray and chicken wings.  There are times in life to be rigid and times in life to break the rules and go with what feels right.  Certainly, chicken wings will never be wrong.  With your pork nachos, two things are critical, slow and low on the pork and MSG.  It's at the grocery store and called something else (it has a chicken on the package - like Tottenham)   You need carbs that don't come from beer.  This a great time to also work in some vegetables.  If you have a killer steak sandwich with bacon crumbles, break it out.  Man can not live on pork alone.  Peppers, onions...get in those vitamins that might (won't) help with tomorrow's hangover.  

3PM SNACK

At this point you have been drinking for hours, a solid seven or nine if you've done it right.  You could probably put out a plate of your dog's wild bison kibble and people would mistake it for jerky bites.  You have made it to football, WVU has already lost to Rutgers and the dreary slate of afternoon games between mediocre mid-conference schools has taken hold.  People are tired, and drunk, and someone has found a bottle of Tequilla you hid the night before.  Attention is waning and people are losing focus.  You need to go bold, right the ship and stay the course, with something weird, like SPAM.  You can do anything with SPAM.  A good can of SPAM is left over from 1952 and is readily found at the Dollar Store on a buy one get one special.  That block of pigstuff can be sliced, chopped, cubed, it can be taken raw, fried, breaded and deep fried; your lack of imagination is the only thing holding it back.  You need it focus on the late games, scatter some Adderal into that SPAM blend and keep the crew on point.  

DINNER

We should all know someone from Ohio.  We don't want to.  They decide all the presidential elections and that's bullshit. They seem too friendly and have a strange, hard to place accent.  But they make ribs.  And they make them well.  Are they as good as Southern ribs?  Probably not, but we don't have any Southern raised rib smoking friends, so we take the sweet, drop off the bone ribs that we get.  This is likely the goodnight kiss.  By now, the late afternoon football games are winding down and the 7PM news is going to suck the air out of the room, and heaping mounds of earlier food are scattered about the house.  It needs to be big.  There needs to be a reason to hang on.  A hope, a prayer, the prime time games are around the corner.  You are close.  Make it good.

EVENING SNACKS

No one has ever made dessert.  You should probably make dessert.  People love dessert.  Sure there is tire-tough pork roll in the microwave and nacho chips that the dog galzed over as she picked out the pork, but maybe this is what has always been missing to add that last ditch shot of sugar to get you to the west coast games.  While your blood alcohol staggers around .17, maybe its time to pull out that Bannanas Foster recipe you always wanted to try, with bacon bits on top, of course, in honor of the day and the King.  If you are going to flame out, it should be literal, and hopefully you aren't in Morgantown, because we know the fire department is already busy.

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