This years Superbowl food

[Duchess]

Superbowl sounds like a food.

It's big business here -

- No fewer than $55 million is expected to be spent on food for The Big Game

Super Bowl Sunday marks the day on which Americans chow the second-greatest amount of food. (Thanksgiving is 1^st)

- Almost 15,000 tons of chips and 4,000 tons of popcorn

- Some 12 million pounds of avocado are sold in preparation for the game so that Americans may gorge themselves on an estimated eight million pounds of guacamole - california avocado commission

- 7-Eleven claims a whopping 20 percent in sales of antacid the day after the Super Bowl.

- 36% increase in sales of frozen breaded mushrooms prior to the Super Bowl

- 29% Percentage increase in sales of frozen shrimp

- $237.2 million spent on soft drinks at grocery stores during Super Bowl week

- 30% increase in sales of proceed-cheese loaves the week before last year's Super Bowl

- 68% Increase in sales of flavored snack crackers

- Frozen Pizza is the top Super Bowl seller at grocery stores

- $11.8 million additional sales of beer

- 30.4 million pounds of snack food Americans scarf down on Super Bowl Sunday, twice the average daily amount

- Pizza Hut expects to sell 2 million pizzas on the day of Superbowl XLV which is 60% or 1.3 million more than an average day.