FOWL BITS: Today, we believe it is important to share these bits of information with our readers, simply because we found them entertaining.
There are 25 billion chickens in the world, more than any other bird species. That’s a lot of wings.
Roughly 1.33 billion chicken wings are ordered on Super Bowl Sunday alone, according to Forbes. In fact, the only celebration where more food is eaten is Thanksgiving.
The National Chicken Council says if that many chicken wings were laid end to end, they would stretch from the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass, to the Georgia Dome in Atlanta almost 80 times.
It’s enough to circle the Earth almost three times. Eating two wings a minute, it would take someone 1,265 years, 80 days, 7 hours and 12 minutes to eat 1.33 billion chicken wings.
The U.S. Poultry & Egg Association analyzed the economic impact of the poultry industry on McKean County. The industry supports 87 jobs of suppliers, and 47 induced jobs.
“In fact, in 2016, the industry was responsible for as much as $39.2 million in total economic activity throughout McKean County, creating or supporting as many as 134 total jobs,” the association reports.
A radio station in upstate New York said Americans will eat 18,000 chicken wings in their lifetime — an average of 24 per month, or 290 for a year.
If that is the case, we know a lot of above average people.
The world record for wing eating is 501 wings in 30 minutes. That title belongs to Molly Schuyler, a 40-year-old competitive eater from Nebraska. For the record, she weighs 127 pounds.
Now turning to the egg (in this column at least, the chicken came before the egg).
The color of a hen’s egg is determined by the breed of chicken, and the color of their ears. In general, chickens with red earlobes will lay brown eggs, while chickens with white earlobes will lay white eggs.
We shall end with this. What do you get when you cross a chicken with a ghost? A poultry-geist!
Eggs-cellent.