Shortage!
According to the National Chicken Council, the high cost of corn (spurred by high demand from the ethanol-fuel industry) could result in a chicken wings shortage at Super Bowl time.
Ya know, this wouldn’t be a problem if they’d made the corn into the GOOD kind of alcohol.
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February 1st, 2013 at 4:18 pm
Looks like they’re learning something from the gas industry…Whenever a holiday approaches, claim a shortage and raise the prices.
February 1st, 2013 at 4:29 pm
My wing consumption goes up if I add good alcohol.
February 1st, 2013 at 4:39 pm
Your high school chemistry teacher is pounding a desk, with their head. Ethanol is the “good” kind since it’s not as poisonous as methanol, which can be made from corn stalks not corn kernels.
February 1st, 2013 at 4:48 pm
@3 – No, my chemistry teacher is fine.
In the punchline I was using the 2nd definition of alcohol: “intoxicating liquor containing alcohol”.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/alcohol
February 1st, 2013 at 4:58 pm
Somewhere a homeless parasite is thinking of strangling a lying-treehugging-sociopath-massmurderer with a cornstalk and a chicken bone because there will be no hot wings in the dumpster behind the Shakey’s.
Someone said there was a big sporting event this week. But there can’t be its not October.
If there is a popular sporting event, maybe the gun stores won’t be so crowded.
February 1st, 2013 at 5:34 pm
Chicken prices going up because of the corn shortage?
This is not news.
Beef and Pork already went up for the same reason.
February 1st, 2013 at 5:42 pm
How many chickens are on this council and how do we know they aren’t cooking the books?
February 1st, 2013 at 6:34 pm
People eat chicken wings during the Super Bowl? Is this a national custom that I missed or something?
February 1st, 2013 at 10:42 pm
Or if they didn’t make corn into fuel that will insure you have a couple of thousand pounds paper weight.
February 1st, 2013 at 10:56 pm
Let me guess…we are still paying Farm Subsidies to the corn growers as we pay higher prices for everything that depends on corn, yes?
February 2nd, 2013 at 9:47 am
Yes.