7 Fun Facts About Easter Candy

Easter candy: You love it, we love it, your hyperactive children love it. There's nothing like stuffing your mug with a few Cadbury Cream Eggs before breakfast.

But did you know ...

• Americans spend an average $1.9 billion on Easter candy every year.
• Sharing treats for Easter most likely came from a pagan tradition of eating hot cross buns, a custom that was later adopted by Christians to celebrate Good Friday.
• Similarly, eggs were pagan symbols of fertility, later co-opted by the church to refer to the rebirth of Christ. Chocolate eggs came on the scene in the 1800s.
• Ninety million chocolate Easter bunnies are currently made for Easter each year.
• Sixteen billion jellybeans are produced specifically for Easter.
• Before the process was mechanized in 1953, it took 27 hours to make one Peep.
• When taking a bite into a chocolate bunny, 76 percent of Americans prefer to bite off the ears first.

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