5. If it's been ten years and thirty pounds since you actually played on your high school football team -- or ten years, two husbands, one facelift and five pounds since you were a cheerleader -- you could go with nostalgic snacks: Jiffy Pop popcorn ("Jiffy Pop, Jiffy Pop, the magic treat, as much fun to make as it is to eat!") and a frosty ice cream soda, followed by a healthy, nourishing Milky Way bar.
4. If you don't have time to make deviled eggs, get some ready-to-eat at the Westside Local at 1663 Summit. This restaurant also has other snacks that are also tasty with cold beer: pickles, olives, Emmenthaler cheese and braunschweiger.
3. If you really want to class up the game-watching experience, shine up the family sterling and use it to display an assortment of fancy cheeses -- like the locally-made Green Dirt Farm sheep's milk fromage -- and crackers from the Better Cheddar.
2. Unexpected by delicious: Chinese take-out finger food, like egg rolls, crab rangoon, shrimp toast or crispy eggplant from one of the several Bo Lings in town.
1. Tailgate at home! Before the game, make a dash over to one of the last classic 1950s drive-ins: Mug's Up Root Beer Restaurant on 23rd Street in Independence. Order a sack o' Zip Burgers, Whiz Burgers, barbecue sandwiches and a couple of chili dogs plus onion rings, tater tots and fries. Don't forget the homemade root beer.
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I heartily second Realist's observation. I prefer my root beer straight up, in a frosty mug -- and Mug's Up still uses those heavy glass cold mugs. Make sure to give your carhop a nice big tip -- she deserves it!
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