Froggy's Food News: Super Bowl Eats

From PepsiCo price cuts on game-day snacks to Chipotle’s free-meal Super Bowl giveaway, Food News has your watch-party covered. Plus, the sad goodbye to Minute Maid frozen juice bars and a countdown of the most-eaten Super Bowl foods—including the jaw-dropping number of wings Americans will devour on Sunday.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh done. Deal. It is food News Thursday, Food News Froggy.
Is that your official name? Food News Froggy. Yes, he's
in the house. Are you ready to go? I'm ready,
all right, busted out listening food Food food News. All right. So, Pepsiico,
the parent company of Dorito's Lace, Cheetos, those snacks that
we love to snack on, they are planning to cut

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prices by fifty percent on fifteen percent on popular snacks,
and they're doing it ahead of the Super Bowl. PepsiCo
says the planned price cuts are the company's latest effort
to win back consumers struggling with higher prices. And yes,
they are doing it prior to you buying snacks for
the big game on Sunday, so take advantage. Accordingly, we
know Chipotle always capitalizing on everything, and they're doing something

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pretty cool. If you're planning on watching the Super Bowl
this year, keep one eye on the TV, but one
eye on your phone, because here's the deal. At some
point during at some point after halftime and before the
end of the third quarter, there will be an AI
generated commercial that will air on television. Chipotle will drop
a thirty second Instagram reel called the Chipotle Realist thirty.

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That video will include a text to claim code. The
first one hundred thousand fans to text that code to
the number you're can get free food redeemable through February twelfth.
They're claiming they will give away over one hundred thousand
meals at Chipotle from the ad on Super Bowl Sunday,
So if you love Chipotle, make sure you take advantage

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of that. How many people have had the minute made
frozen little cylinder things that are in the frozen section
absolutely for years? Yeah? Oh yeah, yes, my grandma she
never I'd have never had juice at grandma's houses that
weren't for those times. Yeah, it's all the consent trade.
They've been around for eighty years. They're gone. They are
being discussed. No, no, because I use the lime maid

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to make some like really crappy margaritas all the time. Yeah.
It dates back to World War Two and most recently
was a favorite ingredient and slushies. Social media is not happy.
People are very upset, but minute Mate says they are
discontinuing those from all stores. Damn you, there is no
there is no God. All you can are you ready
for the countdown let's go. All right, this is the

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top five Super Bowl foods and some facts to go
with them. Oh good, Okay, here you go. The number
five foods will eat the most on Sunday, because it
is It's not just a Super Bowl football, it's a
Super Bowl eating five potato skins. Hey, yep, all right?
Number four sliders okay, because who needs one hamburger when
you can eat seven three? We will eat eleven point

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two million pounds and eight point potato chips. Eight point
two million pounds of tortilla chips. Chips are coming at
number three. All right. It is the busiest day of
the year for these places. Pizza delivery coming in pizza
at number two. Super Bowl is the busiest day and
number one. Number one. We will eat overall one hundred

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million pounds and one point five billion chicken wings on
Super Bowl Sun. Yes, we will light them up, but
a cup. They said that if you took the chicken
wings and stretched them and placed them in to end,
they would go from the Patriots Stadium in New England
to the Seahawks Stadium in Seattle twenty seven times, back

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and forth. Alright, peacha, that's how many wings. I don't
believe you. I'm gonna try it. Let's try it, let's go,
and here you go. Food News love it, Thank you,
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