33 Fun Easter Facts
Easter is only a few days away and with us, it’s going to be more fun and joyful! It’s time to enjoy a handful..naah! A bucketful of candies! But before that, know the interesting facts about Easter and the history related to it. How did the word Easter come about? Who made the first chocolate eggs? How many jelly beans are made only for Easter? All this and more right here! So hop along to know about 20 such great, fun Easter facts.
1. Did you know what part of the chocolate bunny first goes into the mouth of Americans? According to statistics, 76% Americans choose to bite off the ears first, 13% go for the feet first and 11% eat the tails first.
2. In olden times, pretzels were linked to Easter as their twisted shape was thought to be arms crossed in prayer. Interesting theory, eh?
3. As adults, it’s not that easy to get an Easter treat for yourself. Yet 90% of Americans hope for their own Easter treat!
4. Don’t you just love the Easter egg roll on the White House lawn every year? And it’s been a tradition since 1878!
5. America is all about candies and sweets. Yes, it loves all things sweet. We’re saying that because Easter is the biggest candy consuming holiday after Halloween. Americans spend 2 billion dollars and eat 7.1 billion pounds of candy each year!
6. 5 million marshmallow bunnies and chicks are produced for Easter, every day. Yes, you read it right! So whether you are reading this today, tomorrow or any day of the year, marshmallow chicks and bunnies are in production throughout!
7. 16 billion jelly beans are made for Easter each year. That would make up about a nine-story building!
8. 82% Americans would prefer having a chocolate or candy bunny when they wake up on Easter, rather than a live rabbit. Well, actually 4% of Americans do prefer that.
9. The largest Easter egg, made of chocolate and marshmallow was more than 25 feet high, weighed 8968 lbs and was held up by an internal steel frame. So obviously, it holds the Guinness World Record of being the largest Easter egg ever made.
10. Americans love Easter bunnies. But there are different preferences even among those. First preference on the list has to be a solid chocolate bunny, then a hollow chocolate bunny, followed by a marshmallow bunny and then other kinds of Easter bunnies. Now who is tempted for a solid chocolate bunny?
11. Where actually has this tradition of giving eggs at Easter cropped up? It’s from the Persians, Egyptians, Gauls, Greeks and Romans, who considered the egg as a symbol of life. Isn’t that cool? But it’s good that the tradition has altered a bit and we don’t get actual eggs for Easter.
12. The tradition of painting eggs is called Pysanka which originates from the Ukranian word pysaty, meaning ‘to write’.
13. The name Easter has its origins in an Anglo-Saxon Goddess Eastre. She symbolizes hare and egg.
14. Marshmallow Peeps are the most popular non-chocolate Easter candy in America. Why? That’s because Americans buy over 700 million of them during Easter season!
15. There was a festival of ‘egg throwing’ held in church in the medieval times. The priest threw a hard-boiled egg to one of the choir boy who then passed it to another choir boy. This would go on till midnight and as the clock struck 12, the boy who held the egg was the winner who got to keep it.
16. The first chocolate eggs were made in Germany in the early 19th century.
