March 18, 2011
NFL Lockout Bad News for Wings
Hot Wings manufacturers (which I guess would be chickens everywhere) are lamenting that the NFL lockout would be bad business for Wing makers.
From WLS here:
With NFL owners and players in a standoff, the CEO of one of the nation’s largest chicken farms warns that a long-lasting football lockout would be bad news for a gameday staple, the chicken wing.
“It will be a major blow,” said Joe Sanderson Jr., CEO of Sanderson Farms, the fourth largest poultry company in the U.S. “If we don’t have Sunday football, the demand will go down tremendously, and of course, if that happens, the price will go down.”
Wings have become too expensive in the past few years. 7 bucks for a 4 pound bag of low quality, young wings is outrageous. If the price comes down, I fail to see how that would be a bad thing.
And with less wings being cut off of chickens, maybe the wings we begin to eat will be meatier and bigger too.