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Americans will gobble up 1.25 billion chicken wings during the Super Bowl [infographic]

Most of those wings will be consumed in restaurants. The National Chicken Council estimates that of the wings eaten during the Super Bowl, 75 percent will come from food service outlets and 25 percent from retail grocery stores.

January 23, 2015

Americans will consume 1.25 billion chicken wings during Super Bowl XLIX, according to the National Chicken Council's 2015 Wing Report.

What do 1.25 billion chicken wings look like?

• If they were laid end to end, they would stretch back and forth from CenturyLink Field in Seattle to Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts almost 28 times.
• 1.25 billion wings would circle the Grand Canyon 120 times.
• 1.25 billion wings is enough wings to put 572 wings on every seat in all 32 NFL stadiums
• In terms of weight, 1.25 billion wings would weigh 5,955 times more than the weights of the Seahawks and Patriots entire 52-man rosters combined.

And most of those wings will be consumed in restaurants, too. The National Chicken Council estimates that of the wings eaten during the Super Bowl, 75 percent will come from food service outlets and 25 percent from retail grocery stores.

The average wholesale price of whole wings is currently $1.71/lb, up from $1.35/lb at the same time last year, according to the Daily Northeast Broiler/Fryer Report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture Marketing Service.  This is down significantly from when wing prices hit a record high of $2.11/lb in January, 2013.

Wing prices traditionally go up in the fourth quarter of the year as restaurants and supermarkets stock up for the Super Bowl, and prices usually peak in January during the run-up to the big game.