How many wings could a wood chuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck Wings?

As I was reading the news today, I can across an astonishing fact. On Sunday (Superbowl Sunday!!) Americans will eat an average of 1.25 Billion Chicken Wings. 1.25 billion is a rather large number, if you imagine that those wings had to come from somewhere, so at 4 wings per chicken (yes 4...look it up) that's 312.5 million chickens....about 100 times the population of Canada (give or take a few hundred thousand) Or about one chicken for every American Citizen.

Those numbers alone are staggering, but thinking about health (I still do that from time to time) I started to play with the numbers even more. Consider this, at an average of 80 Calories per wing (being extremely conservative, one wing roasted with skin is 98 cals, without is 48 then add sauce) we have a grand total of 100 billion Calories consumed in chicken wings alone.

Consider that 860 calories is the equivalent energy of 1Kwh and it takes 60 of those to light a light bulb for an hour, that many calories consumed in Chicken Wings would get us 1.97 Million hours of light from one light bulb.

More incredible is this, 3500 calories will gain us about one pound (give or take a few hundred) so that's 28.5 million pounds of potential body fat.

To burn that many calories would take

233 Million Hours of Shoveling snow

or

183 Million Hours of Swimming

or

300 Million Hours of Walking

If that doesn't sound like excess...I'm not sure what is. Either way, I think I'll skip the wings this year...I just scared myself.