The Easter tradition means many different things to many different cultures and religions. Families celebrating the Jewish Passover focus on prayers, the Seder dinner, spring cleaning and storytelling.
Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus with mass, feasting and a month of preparation. Others enjoy an Easter parade, send cards, go on Easter egg hunts or get photos taken with the Easter bunny.
In 2000, Americans spent $1.9 billion on candy for Easter, which was second only to Halloween at $2 billion, edging out Christmas at $1.4 billion and Valentine’s Day at $1 billion. Even though the initial Easter sweets included hot cross buns and pretzels, the chocolate bunny will be stamped out over 90 million times this year.
Additionally, 4.2 million Peeps and 16 billion Jellybeans will be consumed during Easter Sunday snacking. While chocolate eggs are the most popular Easter candy, they were not manufactured until the 1800s. They are now being made by Cad bury, Reese, Kinder, Lid and many more companies around the world.
Card giving can’t possibly rival Christmas, Valentine’s Day or Mother’s Day cards, but Easter is, in fact, the fourth most popular holiday for sending cards, says American Greetings. Like most other cards, the Easter card first came from Victorian era England.
There are Christian Easter cards, Easter Bunny cards or springtime greetings. Today, people may choose from traditional paper cards or free online greeting cards deliverable by email.
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