
Oklahoma’s Top Super Bowl Snack Is Fried Green Tomatoes
Some people will be watching Super Bowl LIX on Sunday for the Kansas City Chiefs or the Philadelphia Eagles, others will be there just for the snacks. Standard football snacks are typically wings, pizza or chips and dip, but Google data has revealed that Oklahoma has a unique popular Super Bowl snack: fried green tomatoes.
Even though Newsweek found that buffalo chicken dip dominates as the top game-day snack across the United States, the Google data collected by Coffeeness, found that on Super Bowl Sunday, Oklahoma opts for dippable comfort food. Alongside other Southern states, Arkansas and Mississippi, Oklahoma also had fried green tomatoes ranked at the top spot for the most popular game-day snack in the state.
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Fried green tomatoes are crispy and tangy and can be dipped in virtually anything. Most Oklahomans prefer to dip their fried green tomatoes in some homemade ranch, but on Super Bowl Sunday, opting to dip fried green tomatoes in some buffalo chicken dip might turn out to be a winning combination.
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Fried green tomatoes actually didn't originate in the south.
Fried green tomatoes can be found on several restaurant menus across Oklahoma and throughout Southern states. The dish has become synonymous with the south, especially when the '90s movie "Fried Green Tomatoes" came out as it was based in Alabama. But according to an article from Smithsonian Magazine, fried green tomatoes may have been foreign to the south before 1991.
Food historian and writer Robert F. Moss, who is from North Carolina, told Smithsonian Magazine that fried green tomatoes "entered the American culinary scene in the Northeast and Midwest, perhaps with a link to Jewish immigrants, and from there moved onto the menu of the home-economics school of cooking teachers who flourished in the United States in the early-to-mid 20th century."
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