Easter, a season filled with joy, renewal, and celebration, is also a time when chocolate takes centre stage, especially in the form of delectable Easter eggs. These chocolate treasures, eagerly awaited by both children and adults alike, hold a special place in Easter traditions around the world. But beyond their delicious taste and the excitement of an Easter egg hunt, chocolate Easter eggs carry with them a rich tapestry of history, craftsmanship, and cultural significance that many of us might not be aware of. In this article, we delve into “Ten Amazing Facts About Chocolate Easter Eggs,” exploring the intriguing journey of these festive confections from their origins to their place in modern Easter celebrations. Whether you’re a chocolate aficionado or simply curious about the traditions that shape our holiday festivities, prepare to be surprised and delighted by the fascinating stories behind the chocolate Easter eggs we’ve all come to love. Join us as we unwrap the layers of history, discover the artistry involved in their creation, and reveal the global traditions that have made chocolate Easter eggs a symbol of joy and renewal across generations. Today we look at ten amazing painted eggs, each one a work of art in its own right, while also learning some rather interesting facts about Easter eggs themselves…
10 – “Look inside yourself and you will find….yolk?!?”
FACT: We must be a wealthy lot here in the UK because stats show in 2013 each child received an (on average) 8.8 chocolate Easter eggs! Not in my house, that is for sure.
9 – Eggvengers Scrambled
FACT: Provided that you melted down the chocolate Easter egg and sweets, then compacted all the packaging materials, studies show that Easter egg packaging is 98% air! Even if you don’t melt it down the study also shows that 40% of packaging space was not needed!
8 – The Walking Egg (In a twist Andrew Lincoln Played “Egg” in “This Life + 10”)
FACT: This is a sad statistic if you ask me, but a survey of 5,000 children found that 58% of them thought chocolate Easter eggs the most important part of Easter! Now here is the real bad one, over 38% of them did not know that Easter had any religious links at all!
7 – Portal companion cube Painted Easter Eggs
FACT: Just how much chocolate is sold at Easter time? Well, sales stats show that 10% of all chocolate spending for the whole year is done at Easter time!
6 – Make sure you don’t start chucking them at pigs!
FACT: Despite the fact that most people associate Easter with chocolate eggs, it is obviously chicken eggs that are the most traditional food of Easter Sunday. Although I always remember having both on Easter day!
5 – ” My God, it’s the future. My parents, my co-workers, my girlfriend, all eggs!!!”
FACT: I am also guilty of falling into this fact, stats say that one in five children has made themselves ill by eating too many chocolate Easter Eggs.
4 – Time And Relative Dimension In Space Eggs!?! Sounds like a B-Movie to me.
FACT: 43% of all kids who will receive chocolate Easter eggs say they eat their first chocolate egg before Easter Sunday! But stats also show that 70% of what is left for Easter Sunday are eaten after 11 o’clock.
3 – Sorry I just can’t resist saying it….EGGSTERMINATE!!
FACT: To those of us that live here in the UK this will come as no surprise at all, but the world’s most popular chocolate Easter egg is the Cadbury’s Creme Egg. Each and every year they sell 1.5 million! ‘Hey, what’s your name? Egg. That’s a beautiful name’
2 – All my happy memories done as painted eggs
FACT: The world’s tallest chocolate Easter egg stood at a mouth-watering 10.39 metres height! And it weighed a jaw aching 7,200 kg. Try hiding that one for the Easter hunt!
1 – The perfect painted Easter Eggs for the Super Mario Bros.
FACT: The world’s very first chocolate egg (please note that this stat is for chocolate eggs only) was produced right here in the UK way back in 1873! Fry’s of Bristol in fact.