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Chicken wing shortage threatens Super Bowl Sunday
New York Post via Fox News ^ | January 24, 2013

Posted on 01/24/2013 7:47:01 AM PST by ConservativeStatement

First it was bacon, now it's chicken wings. With less than two weeks to go before the big game, football fans may find it a bit harder to find their favorite Super Bowl snack.

The National Chicken Council released a report that said the demand for wings this year is at “an all-time high” due to decreased wing production caused by the high cost of corn and feed prices. Wings are currently the highest priced portion of a chicken and cost $2.11 a pound in the Northeast, up 12 percent from last year.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Sports
KEYWORDS: chicken; corn; foodsupply; poultry; superbowl
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To: posterchild

“... there was a time when wings were thrown away”.

Yep, I remember those days. Wings were crab bait or used to make stock. My Mom would buy a huge bag of them for next to nothing and make chicken broth.


41 posted on 01/24/2013 8:44:47 AM PST by momtothree
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To: ConservativeStatement

Wings are currently the highest priced portion of a chicken and cost $2.11 a pound in the Northeast.


We used to use them to bait the trot line for crabs.


42 posted on 01/24/2013 8:47:05 AM PST by Venturer
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To: BluH2o

Michelle was unhappy with this “hottie” comment to Barry from 2010. And you want to know why we are in trouble as a nation?

President Obama, making a swing through Buffalo on Thursday, got a taste of the region’s famously spicy chicken wings - and at least one very saucy female fan.

“You’re a hottie with a smokin’ little body,” Luann Haley, 45, told the President as he checked out the fare at Duff’s Famous Wings in Cheektowaga, N.Y.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/president-obama-saucy-reception-buffalo-chicken-wings-shop-article-1.447315#ixzz2Iuaj8TzA


43 posted on 01/24/2013 8:47:41 AM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama is the "Disco Duck" president. A no-substance novelty that reached number one.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
God's perfect food


44 posted on 01/24/2013 8:52:14 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: ConservativeStatement; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows

Must be a big wing ding at the White House.


45 posted on 01/24/2013 8:57:32 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

This week here:

whole chicken - .67
boneless skinless breast - $1.97
seasoned boneless skinless breast - $2.97

Also, several buy whatever chicken part or pre-cooked and get x,y,z free. But no mention of wings in weekly ads.


46 posted on 01/24/2013 8:58:16 AM PST by bgill (We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

The kindergarten chicken finger club noticed that shortage as well.


47 posted on 01/24/2013 9:00:25 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: Vinnie

The kitchen actually takes dinner orders from the inmates! The inmates get their food and eat in their cells. (good idea)

The real kicker was the choices.
regular chili
HALAL chili
vegetarian
VEGAN
don’t remember the 5th

By the end of the first show it was apparent the inmates have it much easier on the inside. And Ramsay said so too.

If I were Gordon I would have just made Vegan Chilli and when a majority of the inmates got pissed off I would say, well some of you wanted VEGAN and the Other Halal so we boiled it down to the least common denominator.

Personally i think prisons should feed the inmates Stale Bread and “Protein Gruel” which is basically like dog food cooked with water to make it’s own gravy.

If they cannot find enough stale bread, they need humid warehouses to actually MAKE stale bread to feed the inmates.


48 posted on 01/24/2013 9:00:49 AM PST by GraceG
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To: ConservativeStatement

No biggie,,, food only interferes with my drinking . . .


49 posted on 01/24/2013 9:03:14 AM PST by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: ConservativeStatement

I bought mine two weeks ago, they are in the freezer. On superbowl Sunday, they’ll be thawed, deep fried, and a ridiculous amount of wing sauce applied. Really hot and tangy sauce. Served with celery strips and ranch dressing, used for intermittent periods of tongue healing.


50 posted on 01/24/2013 9:08:58 AM PST by ZX12R
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To: bgill

Those are the same prices as our local store, but they also have hind quarters for $.79 per pound. We usually get those for BBQ.


51 posted on 01/24/2013 9:11:14 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (0 bummer inherited a worse economy in 2012 than he did in 2008.)
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To: ShadowAce; All
Hooters’ wings suck
yeah, they do...Asian favorings (IMHO) are the best...
(Anything HOT!)
..blue cheese / ranch dressing? *cringing*

52 posted on 01/24/2013 9:19:56 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Bozo man can :-)
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To: Marie Antoinette

Similar prices in Omaha, NE at the right store, right time. Fareway had whole roasters for $.79/lb last week.


53 posted on 01/24/2013 9:31:23 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: 2nd Amendment
Buffalo wings come from the newborn baby buffaloes.
They shed them after 3 days. Anyway that’s what I’ve been told...

and we all know; everything said on the...
*boob* tube (like the 'net) is true.....

ABCNNBCBS

54 posted on 01/24/2013 9:32:04 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Bozo man can :-)
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To: Sans-Culotte

You do know that poultry bones splinter, and can cause severe problems in smaller dogs, right? Now, my two are chow/golden mixes each about 65 lbs. I don’t know if anything short of a whole chicken would be a problem for them gals.


55 posted on 01/24/2013 9:55:04 AM PST by ro_dreaming (G.K. Chesterton, “Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It’s been found hard and lef)
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To: bgill

Thats the inflation everyone says we don’t have....


56 posted on 01/24/2013 10:04:15 AM PST by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Be inventive. Make do. Chicken paws.


57 posted on 01/24/2013 10:09:34 AM PST by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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To: ShadowAce

I have never had wings at Hooters. There is a special today if you buy ten wings you get 10 free.


58 posted on 01/24/2013 10:25:52 AM PST by Perdogg (Mark Levin - It's called the Bill of Rights not Bill of Needs)
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To: bgill

Just back from Giant Eagle
Boneless Breast-$3.69
Also a “Buy one, Get One Free at $3.49. But, they’re huge, and I strongly expect these are the old egg laying hens that are way past their prime. They’re also injected with 15% juice. So lousy, dry meat.
Split Friers were cheap, so I think it’s time to make a huge pot of soup!


59 posted on 01/24/2013 12:45:26 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: ro_dreaming

You didn’t think I read up on this? They don’t splinter when they are raw.


60 posted on 01/24/2013 4:34:24 PM PST by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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