Some interesting Easter food facts
According to recent research conducted by Woolworths the following are some interesting food related Easter facts;
- Nearly half of us Aussies had chocolate for breakfast on Easter Sunday
- 13.8 million Hot Cross buns were purchased from Woolworths in the week before Easter, and many of those were eaten before the long weekend
- 80 percent of those eating Hot Cross buns like them with butter and 67 percent have additional toppings
- About 67 perent of us ate Easter Bunnies over Easter and 88 percent of those ate the ears first
- 74 prcent of us like our Hot Cross buns warm (and we usually use the microwave to heat them), 23 percent like our buns at room temperature, with the remaining three percent eating them cold
- It is the 18-24 year olds who really go for Easter eggs, with 87 percent deliberately eating chocolate over the long weekend
- A third of this age group like to eat their buns whole rather than cut / broken in half
- Nearly a third of Aussies prefer solid Easter eggs to hollow
- Woolworths alone sold over a quarter of a tonne of prawns in the week before Easter, and 130000 kilograms of Tasmanian Salmon
- Around a half of us will have taken part in an Egg Hunt over Easter