PrintHow Many Pounds of Chicken Wings Did New Yorkers Eat on Super Bowl Sunday?
Clockwise from top: Blue Smoke, Dinosaur BBQ, and Rub BBQ.
With chicken production down five percent because of high feed prices, a simple supply-demand chart will tell you that Super Bowlers had a tougher time eating wings yesterday. As the New York Times reported, one wholesale chicken buyer paid $1.10 a pound for wings five months ago, while last week, he paid $1.86. Stephen Colbert even invited a chicken industry insider to the Colbert Report recently to ask, "what other country can we invade to fix this?”
A call around to some of New York's favorite chicken wing sources proved that we might have invaded those countries. Because there were plenty of red-orange fingernails yesterday. Whoa there, Atomic Wings.
Dinosaur BBQ: "Over 2,500 pounds."
Flavors: Honey barbecue and "Wango Tango" were most popular
dinosaurbarbque.com
Blue Smoke: "Over 1,500 pounds between carryout and the restaurant."
Flavor: the house chipotle
bluesmoke.com
Rub BBQ: "About 2,000 individual wings, so about 400 pounds."
Flavors: the house barbecue sauce
rubbbq.net
Atomic Wings: Between all eight locations, "roughly 32,000 pounds."
Flavors: Mild, medium, hot
atomicwings.com
Blondies Sports: "A lot." OK thanks, bye!
blondiessports.com
Bonnie's Grill: "About 515 pounds or 4,100 wings."
Flavors: Mild, medium, hot, hotter
menupages.com/bonniesgrill
Pete's Tavern: "Hm, 100 pounds?"
Flavor: the house sauce
geocities.com/petestavern
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3 Comments:
Archie Moore's in Fairfield, CT? Depends if haz-mat was able to clean up the spill of wing sauce: http://www.newstimes.com/latestnews/ci_11557716.
hmcnally at 5:54PM on 02/02/09
And the follow-up question would be: "How many pounds of antacid were sold on Monday?"
cafin8ny at 8:56AM on 02/03/09
At Hill Country: "Zero" even though it was the #1 special on their Super Bowl menu. Why? Because they never thought to buy any! Same goes for BOTH their beer specials (Lone Star and PBR) on their Super Bowl menu. What a joke!
Big Dog at 10:17AM on 02/03/09