Okay, I'll be honest. I didn't even look for any data to back that up, but I swear I read it somewhere; I just don't remember where. One billion is still a *hit load of wings.
The wing industry has taken some PR hits of late. First there was the threat of a wing shortage. Just saying it was plain mean, but then the Man just tried to explain it away by saying the supply was going to be tighter! Isn't that the same as being short?
We may be dumb enough to eat way too many delicious wings over Super Bowl weekend, but we are smart enough to know what a shortage is and when something is tight (i.e. my belt after I polish off second plate of said wings).
Then in the ATL a pair of individuals thought they would satisfy the wing shortage in their neighborhood (or make it worse) by stealing 10 pallets of wings from the frozen food distributor that they worked at. Somehow their employers were aware that this occurred, but it wasn't till a week later that the cops busted the wing-nappers.
Surprise, surprise, surprise--the wings were gone.
In case it wasn't bad enough that there are not enough wings and that folks are stealing them, but an icon in the wing-eating world, a five-time wing eating champion by the name of 'El Wingador,' has been busted for drugs.
William Simmons, aka El Wingador, has been arrested in New Jersey on multiple charges of cocaine possession as well as manufacturing/distribution.
The former champion eater last won the 'Wing Bowl' in Philadelphia in 2005 by scarfing down 162 wings (slacker).
No word yet on whether the competitive eating world plans on giving him the Lance Armstrong treatment and stripping him of his titles on the outside chance his appetite back then was fueled by a cocaine habit (total tongue in cheek their folks; please don't me seriously).
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