Americans Projected to Eat 1.42 Billion Chicken Wings for Super Bowl LVI

When watching the Super Bowl this Sunday, many of use will do so with some wings. Americans are anticipated to consume 1.42 billion wings while watching the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams battle for the Lombardi Trophy.

NCC spokesperson Tom Super said, “Like almost anything else you buy right now, wings might be a little more expensive, but they’ll be stocked.”

According to the National Chicken Council’s 2022 Wing Report, Bengals and Rams fans have not only rallied around their teams, but they’ve also rallied around the chicken wing. Wing sales in Cincinnati have seen a 27.6% growth during the NFL playoffs and Los Angeles a 37.3% increase compared to the same period last year. Retail wing prices are up about 30 cents per pound on average from the same time last year.

Many costs, like the price of chicken wings, have increased because of unusually high demand, record input costs, labor shortages that have reduced the supply of many goods, and government spending programs that have flooded the economy.

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