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They're a big thing, the chicken wing
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All hail the mighty chicken wing! Frank Bellissimo, founder of the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, is credited with the invention of the popular Buffalo-style wing in 1964. Americans have been flocking to them ever since.
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Photos: They're a big thing, the chicken wing
According to the National Chicken Council's 2014 Wing Report, 1.25 billion wings will be devoured during Super Bowl XLVIII. That is about 20 million more wings than were consumed last year during Super Bowl XLVII.
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51% of U.S. adults who eat chicken wings said they typically like to eat their wings with ranch dressing, according to a new National Chicken Council poll conducted online in January 2014 by Harris Interactive.
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According to that same poll, among those U.S. adults who eat chicken wings, 65% say Buffalo wings are among their favorite flavors/styles of wings. 39% prefer mild, 36% hot and 8% choose the "atomic" option.
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Wanna go out for wings?You'd be in the majority. The National Chicken Council estimates that of the wings eaten during the Super Bowl, 75% will come from food service outlets and 25% from grocery stores.
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In 2012, the most severe and extensive drought in 25 years blazed a path of destruction through the Midwest. It damaged and destroyed major portions of fields, caused crop prices to rise and created a domino effect on overall food prices, spiking up the cost of chicken wings significantly around Super Bowl Sunday in 2013. Rumors of wing shortages brought on a wing hoarding frenzy.
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Some wing lovers would stop at nothing to get their fix. In January, 2013, two employees at a cold storage facility in Atlanta used a rented truck and a forklift for a costly chicken wing heist weighing in at 26,000 pounds and worth $65,000. They were subsequently arrested and charged.
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