Your gluttonous Super Bowl feast: By the numbers

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last updated 10 January 2015

When the incredibly fit, world-class athletes on the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers face off in Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday, tens of millions of Americans will be busy stuffing their faces with a rather disgusting amount of food. How much food? Some 30 million pounds of snacks, for starters. Still hungry? Read on:

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11.2 million

Estimated pounds of potato chips Americans will consume during the Super Bowl

8.2 million

Pounds of tortilla chips

4.3 million

Pounds of pretzels

3.8 million

Pounds of popcorn

2.5 million

Pounds of nuts

50 million

Cases of beer that Super Bowl viewers will drink

Percent of that beer that will be Bud Light, Bud, Coors Light, Miller Light, or Natural Light

1.23 billion

Chicken wings that will be consumed

27 million

Slices of pizza expected to be consumed from just Pizza Hut and Dominos

79 million

Pounds of avocados

20 percent

Increase in antacid sales the Monday after the Super Bowl

1.5 million

People who typically call in sick the Monday after the Super Bowl, many of them surely from food-and-drink hangovers

Football fields you'd have to run to burn off the calories of just two handfuls of potato chips

6,480

Times the Super Bowl crowd would have to do the wave to each burn off six buffalo wings dipped in ranch

American event that actually surpasses the Super Bowl in terms of food consumption — Thanksgiving.

Sources: AOL, The Associated Press, BuzzFeed, Fox News, VOXXI, WSILTV, YourErie.com

Lauren Hansen produces The Weekâ€™s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.