Chips, beer, wings, and dip are just a few foods that Americans consume a whole lot of during the Super Bowl. We're talking millions of pounds! If you've ever wondered what the true numbers are, then keep clicking for the breakdown.
— Additional reporting by Susannah Chen
Beer
The Super Bowl is one of the top 10 biggest days in US beer sales. An estimated 50 million cases [1] flew off shelves during the weekend of Super Bowl XLVII, most of which were consumed at home and not at bars.
Potato Chips
Compared to all other chips, snacks, and popcorn, potato chips are the favorite Super Bowl snack; viewers forked over $184 million [2] in 2013 for potato chips alone — compared to $40 million for pretzels and $12 million for rice cakes — and consumed about 11.2 million pounds [3] of the spud snack.
Tortilla Chips
Tortilla chips were a close second to potato chips last year, amounting to 8.2 million pounds [4] consumed, according to the Snack Food Association.
Avocados
Holy guacamole! Tons of avocados are sold during the Super Bowl, used in staples like seven-layer dip [5] and guacamole. When the San Francisco 49ers played the Baltimore Ravens, around 79 million pounds of Hass avocados [6] were sold for the big game. Compare that insane amount to just 8 million pounds in 2000.
Chicken Wings
Last year, Americans ate around 1.23 billion chicken wings [7] during the weekend of Super Bowl XLVII. Believe it or not, that was actually down from the year before by 20 million wings [8]!
Pizza
Super Bowl Sunday is the top day of the year [9] for pizza sales. Domino's Pizza estimated selling 11 million slices [10] of pizza for the event, and 300,000 online orders were made on Super Bowl Sunday in 2013.