Super Bowl pig out facts

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  • Americans will consume 1.25-bil. wings on Super Bowl Sunday.
  • Americans will consume 335.5-mil. gallons of beer on Super Bowl Sunday.
  • Americans will consume 4.4-mil. pizzas on Super Bowl Sunday.
  • Americans will consume 28-mil. pounds of chips and 53.5-mil. pounds of avocado on Super Bowl Sunday.
    

ATLANTA (WXIA) -- Next to Thanksgiving Day, Super Bowl Sunday is the second biggest pig-out day for Americans.

Here's how much we consume to celebrate just one football game, based on a variety of internet sources.

Overall, we spend $ 55 million stuffing our faces. Wings, of course, are among the most popular treats. We'll eat 1.25-billion of them.

"Well, I made for today the amount of wings I make for a week," said Scott Price, kitchen manager for Jack's Pizza and Wings on Highland Avenue.

It's also the biggest day of the year for pizza, 4.4 million of them. And then there's beer, 325.5 million gallons, enough to fill 493 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

It's also the first Sunday for takeout alcohol sales in many Georgia cities.

Previously, the Saturday before Super Bowl Sunday had been a huge day, but not anymore, according to Andrew Fletcher of Tower Beer, Wine and Spirits in Buckhead.

"We didn't do as many kegs yesterday; we're expecting them all to be coming today; I've got thirty back there on reserve already," Fletcher told 11Alive News.

And of course there's always chips and dip.

Super Bowl fans will consume 28 million pounds of various chips.

Many of us will put up to 53.5 million pounds of avocado on them.

All in all, the average fan can expect to consume 1,200 calories.

That also means antacid sales will see a 20 percent jump in sales.