you re good to go. let s talk about this. has the super bowl become a big old shopping day for sales if. it is a big old shopping day. like halloween and fourth of july. it s about $8.9 billion in terms of how much we spend on super bowl. lot of people buy sports-related merchandise, a lot buy flat screen tvs. about 4% of 100 million or so use this as an opportunity to gouts and buy a flat screen and take advantage of the good promotionals and deals out there. it s a huge day for snacks. $600 million on snacks. finger foods like chips, salsa, guacamole. is that the kind of thing people are spending money on in terms of parties or has this bleak economy taken a bite out of parties? the average spending is down $53, down about $5 from last year, but there s still an awful lot of parties out there. 32 million people hosting parties, including as mark potter pointed out, president obama and his wife having a party at the white house.
$600 million on the finger foods. chicken wings, sliders, na chos, chips, all that stuff you don t need. it sounds like the economy, despite all of its woes, has it cut back or not? we ve cut down a little bit. averaging spending is about $53 which is about $5 less than last year. still going to the parties. 32 million of us are hosting a party today including president obama at the white house and another 59 million actually attending partieparties. you talk about all those snacks. these are the areas where there s the biggest kinds of sales except you have to have something to watch that down with. what would that be? what would you think? i m thinki inin ining 8.5 million pounds of