Easter

Happy Easter/Happy Spring/Happy Autumn! Here are two popular Aussie Easter items: a chocolate bilby, and a hot cross bun.

Despite the fact that Easter happens in Autumn here, Aussie Easter still involves spring things like eggs and bunnies. There are plenty of chocolate bunnies in the shops right now. There are also chocolate bilbies! The bilby is a cute Australian marsupial. Feral rabbits are an environmental pest here, so years ago someone introduced the concept of an Easter Bilby.

Hot cross buns aren't really a big deal in American Easter celebrations, but they're quite popular here. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the two main grocery store chains alone (Coles and Woolworths) will sell an estimated 90 million hot cross buns across Australia over Easter.