Super Bowl chicken wings consumed

American Super Bowl chicken-wing consumption and American self-published-book counts, both expanding. There is a household, somewhere, where a wing is being eaten and a chapter is being uploaded in the same hour. The math, generously, includes both.

Super Bowl chicken wing consumption grew from about 1.25 billion in 2013 to over 1.45 billion by 2024 as Buffalo Wild Wings, Wingstop, and supermarket pre-cooked options expanded availability. Self-published titles per year climbed in parallel as Amazon KDP and falling production costs put publication within reach. Both lines are stories of the volume economy: cheap food at scale, cheap publishing at scale, sharing a decade because the 2010s lifted nearly any consumer category that figured out how to lower its per-unit cost. Different products, same era of abundance.

When per-unit cost falls, supply expands. Wings and words, on the same supply curve.