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The price of chicken wings in the US will be the most expensive ever during this year's Super Bowl championship game.
Demand for the fowl is high and processors have cut their output to trim losses, says Bloomberg.
Chicken wing demand usually peaks in the first three months of the year in America, fuelled by the NFL, which will be held on February 5, and college basketball's annual championship tournament in March.
Bloomberg's data said wholesale prices for wings sold by factories in Georgia, the biggest chicken producing state in the US, are up 52% in the past year.
The price of whole birds rose 6.2%.
"People really want wings, and the recession doesn't seem to have an effect on demand," said Paul Aho, an econonmist at Poultry Perspective told Bloomberg.
Bloomberg said around 20% of the people watching the Super Bowl on television will eat wings, and 1.25 billion wings will be eaten during that weekend, according to Harris Interactive data supplied by the National Chicken Council
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