Super Bowl Snacking
Snack sales soar the week of the Super Bowl as we all make sure we have plenty of chips, pretzels, and more on hand. According to data from SNAC International, snack food sales jumped 10.5% to $616 million this week, which makes sense ... since Americans will eat 112 million pounds of snacks on Super Bowl Sunday. Here are the snacks seeing the biggest jump this week:
- Tortilla Chips: 22%
- Potato Chips: 10.1%
- Pretzels: 6.8%
- Cheese Snacks 6.7%
- Refrigerated Dips: 32.6%
Super Day of Eating
Super Bowl Sunday is a HUGE day for eating. How huge? It’s considered the second biggest food day in the U.S. after Thanksgiving. But just how much do we actually consume during the game? There have been multiple studies over the past few years about the average calorie intake, with the results varying from just 2,400 to 6,000 to 8,000 to 11,000! The USDA recommends the average person has just 2,000 calories a day.
Beware double-dippers on Sunday
Is there anything worse than a double-dipper at a party? Apparently not. A survey found that double-dipping is the number one food sin. 44% of respondents said double-dipping is the top food foul, followed by putting ketchup on pasta (35%), a well-done steak (32%), using a fork and knife to eat a pizza (21%) and using a spoon to eat ice cream out of a cone (19%). Even though people hate double-dipping, 31% admit to doing it at a party. 69% say double-dipping is only OK at home but NOT in a social setting. And it seems Texans are the worst double-dipping offenders – followed by people in New York, Washington, North Carolina, and Alabama.
Super Bowl Parties
How big a party day is Super Bowl Sunday? According to stats from WalletHub, 103.5 million Americans plan to throw or attend a Super Bowl Party, with 14 people attending the average party. 51.7 million cases of beer are sold on Super Bowl Sunday – and 90% more beer is consumed on Super Bowl Sunday than on an average day. Why isn’t the game played on Saturday again?