While Chiefs and Eagles fans fight this weekend over who has the better team, the rest of the country will watch over a plate of chicken wings- 1.45 billion of them, according to projections released by the National Chicken Council (NCC). That’s an average of four wings per American. NCC Spokesman Tom Super said it’s a record figure, sparked in part by lower retail prices year-over-year.
An increase in home-prepared foods, notably with air fryers, also contributed to the increased demand. Super said that, fortunately, poultry producers have kept up with demand even amid the past year’s avian influenza outbreak.
Laid end-to-end, 1.45 billion chicken wings would stretch between Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium and Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field 62 times. That’s also equivalent to 840 loops around the Kansas City metro on Interstate 435, or 20.1 million chicken wings placed on each step leading up to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, made famous by Sylvester Stallone in Rocky.
For more information, visit nationalchickencouncil.org.
