{"id":11360,"date":"2021-05-03T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11360"},"modified":"2021-05-07T17:21:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T00:21:52","slug":"endangered-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/05\/03\/endangered-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The Washington Post via MSN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

America is running low on chicken. Blame covid-19, a sandwich craze and huge appetite for wings.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

by Reis Thebault<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Randy Estrada holds up his Popeyes chicken sandwich, shortly after the fast food chain introduced the menu item in 2019, which The Washington Post dubbed the Year of the Chicken Sandwich. (AP Photo\/Eric Gay)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not like we weren\u2019t warned. The doomsayers predicted this months ago: \u201cA MASSIVE CHICKEN WING SHORTAGE IS BREWING,\u201d\u00a0blared<\/a>\u00a0the headline of one trade publication in early February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it turned out to be so much worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bloomberg News, on Thursday<\/a>: \u201cFried-Chicken Craze Is Causing U.S. to Run Low on Poultry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, not just wings, but chicken in general. Or, as Bojangles put it in a recent tweet <\/a>about their tenders: \u201cwe\u2019re experiencing a system-wide shortage \ud83d\ude41 But they will be back soon!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems the poultry paucity has arrived, heralded by a series of fast-food executives describing in earnings calls their stores\u2019 struggles to stock enough chicken \u2014 nuggets, tenders, wings, patties, all shapes and sizes \u2014 to keep pace with legions of peckish Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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