Super Bowl Sunday is this weekend. It’s the second biggest eating day of the year.
And what’s the most popular bill of fare? Surprise. It is not pizza, as many have guessed.
It’s chicken wings. In fact, Super Bowl weekend is unquestionably the biggest time of the year for chicken wings.
According to the National Chicken Council’s 2013 Wing Report, more than 1.23 billion wing portions will be consumed during Super Bowl weekend in 2013.
To put that into perspective, if 1.23 billion wing segments were laid end to end, they would stretch from Candlestick Park in San Francisco to M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. Not once. Not twice. But 27 times.
Almost six in 10 U.S. adults who eat chicken wings said they typically like to eat their wings with ranch dressing, according to a new National Chicken Council poll conducted by Harris Interactive*. That’s 57 percent of us.
Only about three in 10 (35 percent) prefer bleu cheese dressing.
Adults who who live in the Northeast, though, are significantly more likely to prefer bleu cheese dressing. Those living in other parts of the country tend to favor ranch dressing.
Perhaps not surprisingly, among adults who eat wings, women are more likely than men to say they like to eat their wings with celery (39 percent women vs. 28 percent men).
After ranch dressing at the top: 43 percent of wing lovers chose barbecue sauce as their typical snack or dipping sauce; 38 percent said hot sauce; 35 percent said bleu cheese; and 34 percent chose celery.
Fewer than one in five wing lovers (8 percent) described themselves as purists who eat nothing with their wings.
References
http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/americans-to-eat-1-23-billion-chicken-wings-super-bowl-weekend/
* For complete survey methodology, including weighting variables, please contact Tom Super at tsuper@chickenusa.org
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