Super Bowl, Second-largest U.S. Food Consumption Day
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Aside from being the most-watched U.S. television broadcast of the year, the Super Bowl is the second-largest U.S. Food Consumption Day after the Thanksgiving Day.To give you an idea, here are some Super Bowl food facts.
The average Guacomole that is consumed on that day is 8 million pounds, 14,500 tons of chips and 4,000 tons of popcorn. Ten million man-hours is spent on Super Bowl food preparation. On Monday, the day after the Superbowl, antacid sales increase to 20 percent and 6% of all working Americans will call in sick the day after the Bowl.
So whether you are in a mega Super Bowl party, at home with your family, or just watching alone, you are one in an estimated 95 millions of Americans who will watch the game.
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