Americans can’t get enough chicken wings and Super Bowl Sunday is proof of that. While some football fans prefer pizza or sliders, wings are the MVP at parties for the big game across the country. Sure, New England is famous for its clam chowder and Seattle is known for its salmon tossing, you probably won’t see much of those on Super Bowl snack spreads, but you will see a whole lot of wings.
According to the latest Chicken Wing Report from the National Chicken Council, Americans will be eating 1.48-billion wings while watching the Patriots and the Seahawks play.
- That’s about 10 million more than were consumed during last year’s game.
- Having a hard time visualizing just how many wings that is? Think about them like this: if they were laid end to end, those wings would stretch from Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts to Lumen Field in Seattle about 27 times.
- They would circle Earth nearly three times, like a “crispy equator.”
- Eating one of those wings every 30 seconds and you’d still be finishing up around the year 3430.
- Or you’d be eating one every 30 seconds since the fall of the Roman Empire until now.
- You’d need more than 34-hundred semi-trucks to move all those wings - that’s enough trucks to make a 40-mile long convoy of nothing but chicken wings.
- Sales figures back up America’s love of game-day wings. Tyson Foods, which sells close to 6-billion wings a year, expects to see a 20- to 30% spike in sales of bone-in wings around the Super Bowl.
- When it comes to flavors, classic Buffalo and BBQ are still the favorites, making up nearly 90% of sales, but newer varieties like lemon pepper and Korean BBQ are catching up.
Source: Delish