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The Super Bowl is coming. And we’re running out of chicken wings.
wapo ^ | 2/2/2021

Posted on 02/02/2021 8:49:17 AM PST by mylife

America, we have another crisis. We’re running out of chicken wings.

Days before the Super Bowl, a veritable annual chicken wing holiday, food service providers are scrambling to get their hands on these delectable morsels — and paying top dollar for them, too.

The U.S. chicken wing market is dominated by the sports calendar. Consumption and sales peak right before the Super Bowl in February and again before the start of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament in March. Prices generally ebb and flow with that schedule, spiking before the competitions and edging lower throughout the rest of the year.

But wing prices have been flying high for months during the coronavirus pandemic. Experts say there are a number of drivers behind the increase, but chief among them is that we’re all eating a ton of chicken, including wings. The shortage isn’t so much that producers aren’t making enough wings, it’s that consumers want more and more (and more) of them to scarf down.

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


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To: real saxophonist

Interesting.


21 posted on 02/02/2021 9:04:06 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

I’m guessing that wings may go on sale after the Super Bowl. I’ll pick some up at that time.


22 posted on 02/02/2021 9:04:47 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: Caipirabob

I am not watching....it’ll be a good day for a long drive.


23 posted on 02/02/2021 9:05:49 AM PST by cherry
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To: ClearCase_guy

That’s the way to do it. Corned beef goes on sale 3/18


24 posted on 02/02/2021 9:06:36 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Caipirabob

I’m so ignorant of the Super Bowl that I thought it was last Sunday.

I’m a guy and I don’t have any appreciation for football. I’ve probably watched 5-10 full games in my entire life. I’d occasionally watch the Super Bowl for the commercials but I don’t like some snot nosed marketing dork lecturing to me through her oh so woke sensibilities.


25 posted on 02/02/2021 9:16:13 AM PST by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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To: mylife
Well, we have plenty of legs!
26 posted on 02/02/2021 9:24:22 AM PST by sevinufnine
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To: tje

The New “Woke” Superbowl will start with the playing of the BLM Anthem, Then the National Anthem Hate minute, with all players requested to kneel and give the Black Power upraised fist, Then a Flag burning and the Chant. After the players pretend to hurt themselves and pretend to play—then we the people pretend to care. Who will be in the Half Time show? Hollywood actors who get cheers for chanting “Fu*k Trump!” and the Raising of the Red Chinese Flag while singing “The East is Red” The new Hollywood anthem.


27 posted on 02/02/2021 9:24:31 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade ( ALWAYS GO FORWARD AND NEVER GO BACK.)
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To: mylife

The Super Bowl is coming. And we’re running out of chicken wings.

Super Bowl, Super Bowl? Isn’t that the game where the BLMFL play?


28 posted on 02/02/2021 9:24:32 AM PST by JayAr36 (My disgust with government is complete.)
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To: mylife

I may (or may not) have chicken wings on Super Bore Sunday, but I will not be watching football.


29 posted on 02/02/2021 9:28:00 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: mylife

Chicken wings? Might check the backs of all the RINO’s in Congress.


30 posted on 02/02/2021 9:28:28 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: Caipirabob; mylife
"Anyone watching the Superbowl?"

I'm taking a knee on that.

31 posted on 02/02/2021 9:28:29 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: mylife

I’m going to a Super Bowl party (small) with my jalepeno poppers and 7 layer dip for one reason only: a return to normalcy.

Already the schools/government in my area (probably the CDC too) are “warning” about “Super Bowl” parties. Anything fun must be shut down.


32 posted on 02/02/2021 9:34:17 AM PST by olivia3boys
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To: Caipirabob

I am, they have a Super Bowl every year, making paella and hanging out with friends. Go Chiefs.


33 posted on 02/02/2021 9:34:59 AM PST by Jolla
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

It will be interesting if they do an interview with Slo Joe and if he even remembers what the Super Bowl is about.


34 posted on 02/02/2021 9:40:51 AM PST by xp38
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To: mylife

Nope...done with all the thuggery.


35 posted on 02/02/2021 10:00:30 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: mylife

Who’s playing?

Antifa Misfits VS BLM Rioters?


36 posted on 02/02/2021 10:09:32 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

the story is about a chicken wing shortage.


37 posted on 02/02/2021 10:11:11 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Caipirabob

No


38 posted on 02/02/2021 10:15:38 AM PST by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHQkryIIs)
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To: cyclotic

you would be surprised how many men are just not into watching sports on tv or attending games....you’re not alone....


39 posted on 02/02/2021 10:40:36 AM PST by cherry
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To: rktman

This will be the first time in 37 years there will be no Budweiser commercial on TV during the Super Bowl. They made a decision not to air ads during this Super Bowl.


40 posted on 02/02/2021 10:47:09 AM PST by Obadiah
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