Some of you may actually be watching the Super Bowl later today. According to the Hass Avocado Board, more than 63 million pounds of avocados were shipped into the U.S. last week. Out of this amount of avocados, 88-90 percent were sourced from Mexico, 7 percent originated from Peru, 3 percent came from the Dominican Republic while Chile supplied 1 percent. Approximately 208 million individual avocados – are sold in preparation just for the game. To shovel that guac into gaping maws, approximately 3,100 tons of chips are used to scoop it up.
This year, the National Chicken Council predicts that folks will wolf down more than 1.47 billion wings during this year’s Super Bowl, which is up 1.5%, or 22 million wings, from last year. To put that in visual terms — 1.47 billion wings laid end to end would stretch 63 times from Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, MO, to Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, PA..
Americans will be washing down those snacks by spending $300 million dollars on beer.
Super Bowl LVIII played on February 11, 2024 and broadcast by CBS in the U.S., was watched by more than 123.4 million viewers in the United States, set an all-time high for American television (Nielson rating were up even more even during the halftime show with Usher with guest appearances by Alicia Keys, will.i.am, Lil Jon, Ludacris, H.E.R, and Sonic Boom of the South.) Approximately 16.1 million people called in ‘sick’ to work the day after the Super Bowl, (could this have been an early indicator of the oncoming Corona virus?).
This year, some of you are still working from home, so you won’t be able to call in sick.
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