Easter is coming. Whether you celebrate it or not, you’ve all seen a candy aisle at the pharmacy battered into cake and filled with egg-shaped candies of all varieties. I, by the way, am a Cadbury Mini Egg team, not what you asked for.
The job search site is Zippia again: The company consulted Google Trends to determine what Easter foods people were looking for the most around the holidays (the two weeks surrounding Easter 2020). Using these data, it was determined which foods were sought with a disproportionately high volume in each state. At first glance, there are not a lot of surprises: 16 states opted for a good old-fashioned past boiled eggs (after all, what the hell are you going to do with those things other than eat them?), and the rest of the food, as expected, is sweet.
First, let’s examine our Illinois base. Favorite Easter gift is … white chocolate eggs? I say tricks! Which of your neighbors are sitting around doing a lot of Google searches for white chocolate eggs? Fess up! I’ll bring you a bag of Cadbury mini eggs to show you who the boss is. And speaking of Mini Eggs, it looks like I have to move to Wyoming, because this is the only state whose population agrees with my impeccable taste for seasonal sweets.
Of course, we also have to address the giant elephant in the room, and that’s Peeps, my mortal enemy. A disproportionate number of Google users in eight states (Delaware, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Rhode Island) not only to enjoy the tasteless sponges, however actively search for them on the Internet and now they are dead to me. Interestingly, no state lists Reese’s peanut butter eggs. But maybe it’s because we’re all looking for them all the time in an equally high volume. Chocolate bunnies i gummies they appeared once or twice, but they do not seem to be a great success with any particular state. Do these results match your personal preferences?
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