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NEW YORK, NEW YORK -(77WABC)- With inflation on the rise, you will pay more this year to host your Super bowl party, especially if you’re serving up wings.
Crain’s reporting nationwide, the cost of chickens rising 26% since the same time last year — with prepared bone-in wings increasing by 14% and boneless ones soaring by 26%,
There’s been a chicken wing shortage since 2018, when an oversupply of wings forced a slowdown in production. In 2020, COVID-19 created the combination of a shortage of workers and a bursting demand for takeout. The cherry on top: a rare winter storm in Texas around this time last year that forced farmers to euthanize hundreds of thousands of chicks and destroy hundreds of thousands of eggs.
The New York Post says in Buffalo, the home of the Buffalo wing, prices soared in 2021
