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.
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Go to Hooters, for both.
That reminds me. Did the Seahawks make it?
There was a time when wings were thrown away. The people of the Anchor Bar in Buffalo are due our thanks.
I’m doing a crawfish boil this year. There’s a bumper crop of mud bugs this year and market price is already down to $2.25 lb for next week.
Shoot, I was able to have a boil for New Years and only paid $2.75lb
I haven’t seen prices his low, this early in the season in years.
I heard a stat that said that 1.23 BILLION chicken wings would be consumed on SB sunday.
That sounds like a staggering amount, but...
if 1/3 of the country were eating wings, that would be 12 each.
if 1/10 of the country were eating wings, though, that would be 40 each.
I wish our local Popeyes had crawfish had`em on
their menu now.
Love cajun food of any sort
Justin Wilson got me started.
BBQ and Cajun...best eating in the world
“Go to Hooters, for both.”
Good one Perdogg.
Me? I’ll just buy 50 whole chickens and throw a LARGE party!
This is serious!
I demand an immediate release of wings from the strategic wing reserve!
“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.”
$2.11 a pound is the highest priced pieces and parts of a chicken? Really? How much is breast meat per pound now?
I gave them up. There shouldn’t be a shortage.
And they still don't have much meat on them.
There’s an image at the NY Post’s site that promotes that.
The north makes it a national past time to ridicule the hick hayseed rednecks in the south that raise chickens, 4 wheel in the mud, etc..... go suck on a fried pigeon wing for a change! That’s about all you can ‘raise’.... /[in jest]
Very innovative....kudos!
Hooters’ wings suck
I never eat’em either. Wings are the nastiest part of the chicken. It’s where all the blood collects and coagulates after they’re slaughtered.
Enthenol! High prices.
Awww heck no....we gots them entitlement chickens down here now that don’t even move around, peck for grain, no nothin! They’s got some flabby meaty wings now......
Blatant fabricated BS story to up the sale of wings. God people are stupid.
Yum!
We’ve started using drumsticks instead.
Due to a decrease in wing production?!? What, they are only raising one winged chickens this year?
Buying chicken wings is too expensive. Before you cook a whole chicken, cut off the wings and add them to a freezer baggie. Eventually, you’ll have enough for hot wings. Wings saved from 77 cents a pound whole chickens sure beats the article’s $2.11. Do the same with the gizzards and livers to use for a meal later.
Buffalo wings come from the newborn baby buffaloes. They shed them after 3 days. Anyway that’s what I’ve been told. . .
If the wings aren’t Halal the Detroitistanis will riot!
Glad I’m having pizza. ; )
Here in the Houston area there is a shortage due to a chicken distributor called Buddy’s going out of business. I found out about this because I feed my dog raw meat and bones, mainly chicken necks and backs. Our bones supplier is unable to get chicken backs and necks at this time until someone else picks up the slack caused by Buddy’s closing.
No wings allowed in the chicken & sausage gumbo.
Boil the carcass for stock instead of having to buy it.
Waste not, want not.
Back in the 1960’s my Grandpa was looking at buying a small chicken farm in Georgia. Recently I was told that Georgia produces nearly 7 billion chickens a year.
Lotta wings!
In my area, boneless breast is priced from $1.59-1.99/lb, bone in is $.99-1.29/lb. We’re eating a lot of chicken. Too bad I prefer beef.
The big plastic bucket that used to hold 1.5 gallons of cheap ice cream is now 1 gallon and 1 pint. I noticed a while back the 3 lb. margarine and sour cream tubs are smaller, too. Last week on the evening news they were reporting to be prepared that grocery prices were going to rise to a shocking 2% in 2013. Ha, they have been rising much more than that week to week.
We watched a new Gordon Ramsay show last night. He goes into a British prison and tries to teach some inmates to learn to cook.
Anyway he asks the head of the kitchen if he can borrow the kitchen and have his students cook Chili for the evening meal.
The supervisor informs him the prison is required to provide a choice of 5, FIVE choices.
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.
“... 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.
Wings are currently the highest priced portion of a chicken and cost $2.11 a pound in the Northeast.
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.
Must be a big wing ding at the White House.
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.
The kindergarten chicken finger club noticed that shortage as well.
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.
No biggie,,, food only interferes with my drinking . . .
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.
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