The easter is coming. Whether you celebrate or not, you’ve all seen that candy aisle in the drugstore towed in pastel and filled with egg-shaped candies of all kinds. By the way, I’m on the Cadbury Mini Egg team, not that you were asking.
The Zippia job search site is again: the company consulted Google Trends to determine what Easter foods people searched for the most close to the holiday (the two weeks around Easter 2020). Using this data, he determined which food was searched at a disproportionately high volume in each state. At first glance, there are not many surprises: 16 states opted for the good old boiled eggs (after all, what the hell are you going to do with these things besides eating them?), and the rest of the food, as expected, is sweet.
First, let’s look at our base in Illinois. The favorite Easter treat is … white chocolate eggs? I call mischief! Which of you, my neighbors, is doing a lot of Google searches for white chocolate eggs? Confess! I’m going to bring a bag of Mini Cadbury Eggs to show who’s boss. And speaking of Mini Eggs, it seems that I have to move to Wyoming, because this is the only state whose population agrees with my impeccable taste in seasonal sweets.
Of course, we also have to address the giant elephant in the room, which is Peeps, my mortal enemy. A disproportionate amount of Google users in eight states – Delaware, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Rhode Island – not just enjoy the tasteless sponges but actively search for them on the internet and now they are dead to me. Strangely, no state lists Reese’s peanut butter eggs. But maybe it’s because we’re all looking for them all the time at an equally loud volume. Chocolate Bunnies and jelly beans appeared once or twice, but it doesn’t seem to be a big hit in any particular state. Do these results match your personal preferences?
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