NCAA Tournament Cancellation Causes Chicken Wing Surplus, 'Millions Of Pounds'

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Apparently, we like our wings during March Madness. So, with no basketball to be played there were a lot of wings that went uneaten. A LOT....

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Poultry experts told The Washington Post this week that chicken wings are down to nearly $1 per pound after "millions of pounds" of the goods went uneaten due to March Madness' cancellation.

"The basketball, it’s for real," one expert told the WaPo. "The basketball didn’t happen. People are not going to restaurants and there’s a lot of excess."

According to the report, just before the annual NCAA Tourney was canceled last month ... poultry farmers sold over 1.2 MILLION pounds of wings.

Last week, however, they say those sales dipped dramatically ... with only 433,000 pounds being sold.

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Not to mention all the celery, ranch and blue cheese. Are you a ranch or blue cheese person?person?


(TMZ Sports)