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Top 10 Easter Basket Fillers Fun Easter Facts Top Ten Facts about Easter 1. Each Easter season, Americans buy more than 700 million Marshmallow Peeps, shaped like chicks, as well as Marshmallow Bunnies and Marshmallow Eggs, making them the most popular non-chocolate Easter candy. 2. As many as 4.2 million Marshmallow Peeps, bunnies, and other shapes can be made each day. 3. Ham came to be the traditional favorite for Easter dinner
because in pre-refrigeration days, hogs were slaughtered in
the fall and cured for six to seven months. Just in time for
Easter dinner... 4. In 1878 President Hayes and his wife Lucy officially opened the White House grounds to the children of the area for egg rolling on Easter Monday. 5. The most famous decorated Easter eggs were those made
by the well-known goldsmith, Peter Carl Faberge. In 1883 the
Russian Czar, Alexander, commissioned Faberge to make a special
Easter gift for his wife, the Empress Marie. 6. The largest Easter egg ever made was constructed in |
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for Easter 7. Americans spend 2 billion dollars on Easter goodies, and eat
7.1 billion pounds of Easter goodies each year! With 60 million
chocolate bunnies being sold each Easter. 8. The name Easter comes from Eostre, an ancient Anglo-Saxon
goddess, originally of the dawn. In pagan times an annual spring
festival was held in her honor. Some Easter customs have come from
this and other pre-Christian spring festivals. Others come from
the Passover feast of the Jews, observed in memory of their deliverance
from 9. Yellow Peeps are the most popular, followed by pink, lavender, blue, and white. 10. In 1953, it took 27 hours to create a Marshmallow Peep. Today it takes six minutes.
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