Chicken Wings And Super Bowl Weekend
As
Americans plan their menus for Super Bowl Sunday, the second biggest
eating day of the year after Thanksgiving, few items will be more
prominent on viewers’ plates than America’s favorite appetizer – chicken
wings. Super Bowl weekend is unquestionably the biggest time of the
year for wings. More than 1.25 billion wing portions will be consumed
during Super Bowl weekend in 2012, totaling more than 100 million pounds
of wings, according to the National Chicken Council’s 2012 Wing Report.
If the wings were laid end-to-end they would circle the circumference
of the Earth – more than twice – a distance that would reach
approximately a quarter of the way to the moon. Some 23% of those who
watch the big game will eat chicken wings, up slightly in popularity
from last year, and second only to dips and spreads (32%) on Super Bowl
menus, according to a survey by Harris Interactive.
