Fanatics

Thank you, Sting, for making today's shopping experience a little better.

Sting wasn't actually at Meijer, of course, but he still took me to a far away land which enabled me to recall the summer of 1993. Were any of you, perchance, at the Grateful Dead show at Buckeye Lake that year? If you were, but in case you can't remember that fact, Sting opened for the Dead, and his album Ten Summoner's Tales was popular, and it all seems so long ago (probably because it actually was). Anyway, one of the tunes from that album was playing today and a warm summer evening at a concert was far preferable to the hell that greeted us in reality.

First Sunday of the month plus day before championship bowl game in which Ohio State is playing equals a swarm at each and every grocery. A swarm converging on beer and chips and meat and cheese. A swarm mingling with the usual families with children and after church folk and people who don't give a damn about others in their vacinity who want to get around their cart and adults just trying to buy a week's supply of eats. It was mania.

But luckily we made it through there in OK form, and weren't on a quest for finger foods. In fact, we're not planning on attending any football parties, and may not even watch the game, seeing as how we're not really Buckeye fans. But an event like this certainly calls for good and plentiful fare at many households, much of it regionally inspired according to team loyalties. I just finished a story tonight about LSU fans planning on getting together and cooking a slew of Cajun yummies. Have any of you ever eaten turducken? I haven't, but would love to try it sometime. Do you have any unusual recipes that you traditionally make for a big game, be it football or curling?

Comments

[Rebecca]

You know me, I always have a trick up my party-themed sleeves. But I must say I was surprised by a sub I saw in Kroger's. They had baked the bread into the shapes of an O, S and U and packaged three sandwiches together. That could be pretty clever for any college team.

Of course, there's always soup for the Soup-er Bowl!