You may have seen some blog posts and other news stories about a possible buffalo chicken wing shortage for the Super Bowl earlier this year.
But the National Chicken Council released this press release, assuring consumers that there was a large enough supply.
The National Chicken Council estimates that more than one billion wing portions will be served during the last football weekend.
One billion wing portions.
I’m trying to do the math on this. Assuming you can get two wings from a chicken, that’s 500 million chickens just for Super Bowl weekend.
In other words, to meet this supply, every man, woman and child in a city the size of Detroit, would need to raise 500 chickens.
Each.
Allowing each bird 8 square feet of space would cover 143 square miles. (500 million x 8 = 4 billion square feet, divided by 27 878 400 square foot in a square mile. Detroit itself is 138.8 square miles and isn’t quite big enough.
The chicken folks say that Super Bowl weekend wing consumption is only 5% of the annual demand for wings.
Related posts:
Pingback: Super Bowl Sunday Wings – Not Wyngz | Small Farm Life