
Chocolate Easter bunnies leaped from Pennsylvania Dutch ingenuity, hobbled by inflation in 2024
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Pennsylvania candy salesman Robert Strohecker sparked a frenzy with the first chocolate Easter bunny in 1890. The business is facing high prices and low supply in 2024.
The source of Strohecker’s legend was a massive 5-foot-tall (or perhaps even taller) solid chocolate rabbit he displayed outside Pennsylvania retailers in 1890 to popularize smaller versions of his new Easter sweets born of German tradition. The prospect of long-term rising costs and dwindling supplies is "scary." Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
Strohecker, whose middle name was Lincoln, was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in January 1864. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, the site of the battle just 35 miles away, two months before Strohecker was born.