Per capita chicken consumption

American babies named Maverick climbing the charts as American per-capita chicken consumption also climbs. The kid named for breakaway optimism is, statistically, eating chicken at the same rate the country is. Two completely unrelated American defaults growing together.

Maverick climbed Social Security baby-name charts steadily across this window, lifted further by Top Gun: Maverick (2022). US per-capita chicken consumption grew from about 86 to over 100 pounds per person across the same window as poultry continued to displace beef on per-capita protein. Two completely unrelated growth stories sharing a window because the same eighteen years rewarded both a Top Gun-driven baby-name fashion and a poultry-protein category.

Two completely unrelated American defaults grew. The name and the protein, both up.