The Super Bowl! So called maybe because most of us will eat super ridiculous amounts of food — most likely from a bowl — while we watch the game. But just how much are we going to throw down our gullets? Grab some napkins and get ready for a Super Bowl casserole of facts.
Here are five things to know:
According to the National Chicken Council’s report (yes, it is an actual council), during this year’s Super Bowl, Americans are most likely to consume 1.42 billion chicken wings.
That’s enough to make three giant wings, and by that, I mean rings around the Earth. It would cost 17,000 Bitcoin, or if you want to be lovely and pick up the tab for all of us in cash, that’s just over $623 million for wings alone (Oh, and don’t forget the tip!).
Even a world record wing eater would take over 162 years just to eat them. Hmm, they might be cold by then. During the playoffs, wing sales in LA saw a nearly 40% increase. Talk about a West Coast offense.
Another survey suggests that something like 99% of Americans also plan to eat chips as well, 28 million tons of them. But don’t worry, at least there’ll be eight million pounds of guac to go with it. Enough to fill a football field 12 feet deep. Now, that’s a diet that’ll give you a very different “point spread.”
Last year, a national grocery home delivery service across America sold over 66,498 pounds of Tostitos Tortilla Chips. Talk about a scoop and score! And they sold enough frozen pizza to make one giant one with a diameter the size of not one but three football fields. Well, at least, if you get thirsty, you can wash it all down with over 51 million cases of beer.
Spending around $40 each, downing over 2,400 calories and consuming more food than on Thanksgiving, it’s easy to see why for each of us, after this Super Bowl, we might all need a super-lie-down.