Whoever you’re rooting for, one thing we can surely all agree on is that the Big Game is nothing without a Big Party Platter.
So, while folks sweat all the private jets flying in for the big game, we also got to wondering about the footprint of a different kind of wings: the Buffalo variety. Along with other essential football-watching fare, Americans will down almost 1.5 billion of ’em this weekend.
With so much snackin’ goin’ on—and in our ongoing quest to help mind the footprint of what we put in our faces—we decided to pair up with CarbonCloud to help you choose your tasty treats wisely. Their tools calculate the impacts of packaged foods and recipes, with the goal of making emissions data as transparent to consumers as nutritional info is now.
We fed 13 of the country’s go-to game-day foods into their ClimateHub dashboard and tallied up the emissions per serving of each. Check out the chart below, where you’ll see how their footprints compare to a 5-mile drive—and what small tweaks you might want to make to the top emitters to lessen their impact on the planet.
