Easy Chicken Wing Recipes for Super Bowl, From Momofuku, Blue Ribbon

On any given Super Bowl Sunday, chicken wing consumption goes through the roof. This year, the National Chicken Council projects that Americans will eat 1.35 billion wings for Super Bowl Lll in Minneapolis on Feb. 4. That’s an all-time high, up 1.5 percent, or a 20-million-wing increase from 2017. To equal 1.35 billion wings, someone with the time and the energy could feed 625 wings to every person in every seat of the 32 NFL stadiums across the country.

This new high is a surprise, because chicken wing sales took a hit late last year, according to Bloomberg. Tom Super, spokesperson for the National Chicken Council, says the decline is related to the peak price wings hit in the fall. “Wing prices were at their highest ever in September; they’ve come down since then. Chicken wing demand has proven more and more inelastic though; it just doesn’t change much with the price,” says Super. He also promises that, in spite of earlier reports of a cataclysmic scarcity, there will be no wing shortage this year.