Now that the Super Bowl matchup is set, it’s time to start making a list of the things you’ll need for your Big Game Party. You’ll need beer, some dips, and of course, knoephla soup.
Someone put together a list of the “most popular Super Bowl foods, by state”, and to do it, they say they analyzed internet “search volume data” in the weeks around last year’s Super Bowl.
Then they went through some kind of process to figure out which food items were particularly popular in each state.
Something must have been a little funky about their analysis, because despite 1,300 possibilities, every state had one of 14 foods as their #1. And pizza and burgers weren’t the top food anywhere, but “knoephla soup” was.
That’s a German soup, which usually includes dumplings, potatoes, chicken, vegetables, and cream. It’s popular in the North Central part of the country, but not pizza-level popular.
Anyway, here are the results . . .
Buffalo chicken dip is America’s favorite Super Bowl food by a landslide. It’s the top-searched dish in 29 states in the Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast.
Baked potatoes are #1 in the second-most states, with FIVE: California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, and Montana.
Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Mississippi want fried green tomatoes for the Super Bowl.
And some other favorites represented on the map include: Funeral potatoes, or cheesy potatoes, poke bowls, deviled eggs, hot dogs, baked ziti, garlic knots, shakshuka.
And then there’s the Spanish pastry sopapillas, which is #1 in New Mexico, crawfish étouffée, which is #1 in Louisiana, and knoephla soup, which is #1 in North Dakota.
(Here’s the map. It’s, unique, right?)
