How 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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