
Easter Facts
- The term “Easter” comes from the word “Eastre” an Anglo-Saxon Goddess of spring who symbolizes the hare and the egg.
- In old times, Christians particularly used to exchange red eggs to indicate the resurrection of Jesus’ life.
- Majority of people prefers to eat the ears of chocolate bunnies first.
- Christians consider the Easter eggs to be the symbol of glee, fertility, and resurrection.
- The first chocolate eggs were made in Europe in the early 19th century.
- Easter Bells, Easter lily, Baskets, Easter Eggs and rabbits are the common symbols of Easter.
- Over 2 billion jellybeans are made for Easter and among sweet items, red jellybeans are children’s most favorite sweet.
- Every year in the US, 90 million Easter chocolate bunnies, 16 billion jellybeans and 91.4 Easter eggs are produced.
- “Pysanka” is the traditional word for painting eggs.
- The tradition of exchanging eggs has been taken from the Persians, Egyptians, Romans, Gauls and Greeks. For these people, the egg was a symbol of life.
- Every year, the White House hosts an Easter Egg Hunt on the front lawn. Rutherford B. Hayes started this tradition in 1878.
- In 1680, the first story of a rabbit hiding eggs in a garden was published.
- Cadbury’s crème Egg is most popular egg-shaped chocolate in the world.
- Over 700 million Marshmallow Peeps are sold and consumed by the Americans at the time of Easter.
- Americans spend 1.9 billion on Easter Candy.