Chicken Wing Prices Catch Fire Before Super Bowl
- January chicken-wing surge wipes out all the losses from 2018
- Americans set to eat a record 1.38 billion wings this weekend
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
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The chicken-wing market is red hot.
Prices for wholesale wings are heading for a 24 percent surge in January, more than wiping out their 2018 losses, government data show. Demand is soaring ahead of Super Bowl weekend, when Americans are forecast to eat a record 1.38 billion wings, according to the National Chicken Council.