Going, going, yum: The majority of people report eating chocolate bunny ears first. Listen up — because Easter bunnies won’t be able to. When it comes to chocolate bunnies, 59% of people eat the ears first, new research reports. Another 4% begin by devouring the tail or feet, while about a third of the 28,113 online subjects studied had no starting-point preference when it comes to candy-bunny binging. Call this research soft science — and sweet, too. Kathleen Yaremchuk, an otolaryngologist at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, headed the study — "Seasonality of auricular amputations in rabbits" — that was published this month in The Laryngoscope journal. Yaremchuk told the Daily News that her interest in the topic was “a natural connection” as an ears, nose and throat doctor. “In the end,” she added, “we’re taking about ears.” For an otolaryngologist, that’s like Christmas. Researchers analyzed online searches between January 2012 and January 2017. They used search terms such as “chocolate,” “Easter Bunny,” “rabbit,” “Easter,” “ears,” “amputation” and “bunny” to help determine consumption patterns. Yaremchuk acknowledged that the research is “tongue in cheek” but eye-opening nonetheless. The study concludes that are “fewer reports of anatomical defects in relation to (other) confectionery symbols,” such as Kris Kringle. “People don’t report eating Santa’s face,” said Yaremchuk. Source
