Maine’s Favorite Easter Candy Is a National Embarrassment

Easter is the hidden gem of holidays.

Not only is it a wonderful welcome to the spring season, but it's also loaded with delicious food and treats.

Easter is the Perfect Holiday for Good Food and Warming Weather

Who doesn't love waking up to warmer temperatures (allegedly) and finding that basket full of candy on the table? The rest of the day feels like a poor man's Thanksgiving, with ham, turkey, potatoes, pineapple, a million side dishes, and various fruit-filled pies. It's quite the smorgasbord of amazingness.

As good as the meal is, the true star is the candy. How could it not be? A giant bunny literally commits a felony and breaks into our house just to deliver these wonderful morsels. Candy has to be the most important part—giant animals are out here committing countless crimes just to gift it to us.

What is Maine's Favorite Candy for the Easter Holiday?

With the holiday rapidly approaching, I thought it would be fun to find out what Easter candy Mainers love the most. Could it be the iconic Cadbury Creme Egg? What about jellybeans? Perhaps it's the Reese’s Egg? Well, thankfully, there's a website that can tell us the answer... and the answer is... not great. Actually, it's quite awful.

The folks over at the popular site Eat This, Not That, put together an article on every state's favorite Easter food. The site determined the answers using data from Google trends over a period near the Easter holiday. You can read more about the methodology here.

The food that came up as the most popular here in Maine was one that I certainly did not expect to see. It's a polarizing treat that I would imagine most people would rather pass on than eat. Yes, I am talking about Peeps Candy. Maine's favorite Easter food is essentially stale cardboard.

Maine's Favorite Easter Candy is a Very Controversial Choice

In case you don't know, Peeps are marshmallow-like candies shaped like little baby birds. They kind of resemble oversized versions of the small marshmallows in Lucky Charms cereal. Oh, and they taste horrendous.

Let's be honest—they taste like stale plastic blocks of sugar. The texture falls somewhere between hell and misery, which is exactly how you'll feel after ingesting one of these.

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What an embarrassment for Maine. Of all the sweet treats to call our favorite, we're freaking stuck with this abomination. Why couldn't we just be represented by a nice chocolate bunny—or even a simple Hershey's Kiss? Hell, I think I'd take those horrendous black licorice jellybeans over Peeps.

It's very rare that Mainers disappoint me, but this is just going too far. I honestly don't know if this relationship can be fixed. I'm considering putting the house on the market.

Here's hoping Maine has a better favorite food for Memorial Day.