- More than 16 billion jelly beans are made for Easter. If you lined them all side-by-side, they would circle the Earth nearly three times. It’s also enough to completely fill a nine-story office building.
- To help Americans in need, egg farmers across the country are donating more than 11 million eggs to food banks across the nation.
- Not cooking this Easter? You are not alone. According to the National Restaurant Association, more than 33 million Americans are expected to celebrate the Easter holiday by dining out.
- Ninety million chocolate Easter bunnies are made for Easter each year. Adults prefer milk chocolate (65%) over dark chocolate (27%).
- Children’s favorite jelly bean flavors are cherry (20%), strawberry (12%), grape (10%), lime (7%), and blueberry (6%).
- Americans spend an average of $1.9 billion on Easter candy every year.
- The 10 most popular things gave up for lent include alcohol, chocolate and sweets, cursing, Facebook, television, junk food, pop, smoking, texting and gossiping.
- You know those wire egg dippers that come in the egg coloring kits (and never work)? If you lay all of them from end-to-end, they would equal the height of 6,628 Washington Monuments.
- It takes 24-26 hours for a hen to complete the process of laying an egg…..South American Ameraucana and Araucan chickens can lay colored eggs in hues of green, blue, or pink.
