Easter has one advantage over Christmas: it’s easier to shed the pounds you’ve gained over the holidays. The days are longer and the temperatures are higher, so it’s much easier to persuade your weaker self to tie your jogging shoes or go for a few laps on your bike.
The chocolate bunny has long overtaken Santa Claus
Perhaps this fact tempts us to snack more at Easter than at Christmas. At least that’s what a look at the statistics suggests, because significantly more chocolate Easter bunnies are produced in Germany than chocolate Santa Clauses. And in theory, production is based on demand. In practice, not necessarily, because there are still a surprising number of Easter sweets on the shelves – with a fancy red price tag that blatantly tells the consumer “Buy me!” shouts.
The union of food, pleasure and restaurants recently dealt with the chocolate bunny and combined the message about the demand for more wages with chocolate consumption in the district. According to this report, the average Kitzinger consumes 12.9 kilos of chocolate per year, including pralines, rabbits and chocolate biscuits. That would be more than three kilos more than the German average. Whereby the value does not take into account that a particularly mean kitzinger probably steals a rib from the other. And someone has to clean up the two and a half bars a week, which, statistically speaking, is consumed by a newborn district citizen.
It depends on the point of view: Which treats actually count as chocolate?
From the health point of view, two and a half bars a week is clearly too much. Seen from a comforting point of view, however, the amount is sometimes quite understandable. The stuff calms down when it’s stressful and we’re annoyed. But is the amount really correct? A quick question from a group of colleagues: A colleague reacts without emotion: No, she doesn’t eat that much. A colleague is horrified: So much? He has not eaten chocolate for months, he assures credibly.
The third interviewee tilts her head back and forth, pondering. Do toffees count? She ate a whole pack the night before. But the long working day was not the reason. “They jump so nicely,” she says. All you have to do is apply some pressure to the right place on the sorting insert. Squeeze, jump, eat until the pack is empty. 125 grams of fun, that was worth it. I can hear the colleague in the next room whistling at the statistics.