Easter is coming. Celebrating or not, you’ve all seen that one candy aisle at the drugstore plastered in pastel and filled with egg-shaped candies of every variety. I’m team Cadbury Mini Egg by the way, not that you asked.
The job searching site is Zippia on the weather: The company consulted Google Trends to determine what Easter food people were most looking for around the holidays (the two weeks around Easter 2020). Using that data, it determined what foods were searched for in each state with disproportionately high volume. At first glance, there aren’t many surprises: 16 states chose the old-fashioned hard 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 candy.
First, let’s take a look at our home base of Illinois. Favorite Easter treat is … white chocolate eggs? I mention shenanigans! Which of your neighbors of mine does a lot of Google searches for white chocolate eggs? Tell! I’ll bring you a bag of Cadbury Mini Eggs to show you who’s boss. And speaking of mini eggs, it looks like I have to move to Wyoming as that’s the only state where the population will agree with my impeccable taste of seasonal sweets.
Of course we also have to address the giant elephant in the room, and that’s Peeps, my mortal enemyA 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, but actively search for them on the internet and are now dead to me. Oddly, no states list Reese’s peanut butter eggs. But maybe that’s because we’re all looking for it all the time at an equally high volume. Chocolate bunnies and sweets has surfaced once or twice, but they don’t seem to be a big hit in any state in particular. Do these results match your personal preferences?
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