It’s the Super Bowl, and there are lots of food options to enjoy while watching the game. We stopped by a few places, capitalizing on football fans’ favorite dishes<\/p>\n
THROOP, Pa. \u2014 Rooting for your favorite football team on Super Bowl Sunday can work up quite an appetite.<\/p>\n
But what is the go-to football food? If you ask the firefighters-turned-cooks at the Volunteer Hose Company of Throop, they’d say: chicken wings!<\/p>\n
“It’s our 20th anniversary, so we’re probably about, at least right now, about 1600 pounds of chicken,” says Robert Hegedus, President of Volunteer Firefighter of Throop.<\/p>\n
Wingfest saw hundreds of pounds of chicken thrown into the fryer and then coated in buffalo sauce.<\/p>\n
A dish people were eager to get their hands on.<\/p>\n
Hegedus says, “We have chicken going out the door like crazy, like we didn’t anticipate it to be as successful as it was.”<\/p>\n
Just down the road, a different meal was being brought out to hungry sports fans.<\/p>\n
\u00a0John Uhranowsky, Throop Hose Company No. 1 firefighter, says, “The citizens of the community, you know, just great. They always support us in our fund drives.”<\/p>\n
Members of Throop Hose Company No. 1 were busy packing up hundreds of barbecue chicken and scallop potato dinners.<\/p>\n
In its 45th year, the cooking started early, at 5 am, and the weather was balmy, with temperatures of negative two degrees.<\/p>\n
John Uhranowsky “Oh yeah, absolutely, they stay warm. They’re, they’re by the pit, which is warm, but, you know, kudos to them for doing a great job that they do.”<\/p>\n
There is one more Super Bowl meal that keeps people coming back to the Jefferson Township Volunteer Fire Company.<\/p>\n
Asst. Chief Jason Crambo, Jefferson Township Volunteer Fire Company, says, “Over 200 pizzas, 5 different sauces, 5 different pizzas that we’re making, we’re all sending them out the door to everybody for the big game.”<\/p>\n
The annual hot wing and pizza sale sees volunteers ditch the turnout gear for gloves and aprons.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Keeping hundreds of households full for game day.<\/p>\n
“Takes a mountain to have an event like this. It’s not just today. All week we’ve been prepping.”<\/p>\n
Proceeds from the fundraisers will go towards buying gear and supplies for each of the volunteer fire departments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s the Super Bowl, and there are lots of food options to enjoy while watching the game. We…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-108842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}