Who Has The Biggest Sweet Tooth, North Carolina Or South Carolina?
Americans love dessert. A piece of pie or a cookie always seems to hit the spot. But which states are leading the pack of sweet tooth residents? The Machester Times…
Americans love dessert. A piece of pie or a cookie always seems to hit the spot. But which states are leading the pack of sweet tooth residents? The Machester Times quoted the results of a survey conducted by OnePoll for Crumbl Cookies.
A survey of 5,000 Americans evenly split 100 per state found that those from Tennessee are most likely to eat dessert every day (25%), followed by those from Colorado, Louisiana and North Carolina (22% each). If you love dessert. you are not alone. One in six Americans sits down to a sugary treat once a day.
Here is the order of the truly loved desserts. Americans’ most-eaten desserts are ice cream (55%), cookies (35%), and chocolate (32%).
Cookies are hard to resist for most Americans. The average American estimating that they eat just under 200 cookies a year. That's a whole bunch of cookies.
Looking at Americans’ top-rated cookies, chocolate chip won by a landslide (62%), followed by peanut butter (31%) and brownie/double chocolate (26%). White chocolate chip macadamia (23%) and oatmeal raisin (22%) weren’t far behind.
I am a sugar cookie guy myself. If you add frosting and sprinkles to the top that's even better.
So North Carolina placed in the top 5 for sweet tooths. Don't worry the folks in South Carolina love the sweets also. Just not as much as their neighbors to the North.
Would You Have Guessed This Is North Carolina’s Favorite Dessert?
We’ve run into a few lists that make us shake our heads over the years. But this one may take the… cake- pun 100% intended. North Carolina’s favorite dessert is not one we would have thought of. Coventry Direct used some interesting methodology to determine the most popular dessert in every state. They took a list of 40 of the most popular desserts and then analyzed Google search terms in each state for those 40 desserts.
While not a bad metric, it does seem to create an issue in states where popular desserts don’t really need to be Googled: Grandma just passes that recipe right on down. But anyway, while most of us might guess chocolate cake, or sweet potato pie for North Carolina, you’d be wrong apparently. Also, Idaho, Minnesota, New Hampshire, SOUTH CAROLINA are y'all ok? The other question I have is what in the world is Texas sheet cake and why is it so popular? Also why is there no just chocolate or vanilla cake or cupcakes on this list? I have to think those are more popular than things that made this list.
But what is North Carolina's favorite dessert? Well, let’s take a look at the most popular dessert in every state:
Alabama
Pound Cake
Alaska
Baked Alaska
Arizona
Rice Krispies Treats
Arkansas
Pecan Pie
California
Ice Cream
Colorado
Rice Krispies Treats
Connecticut
Ice Box Cake
Delaware
Funnel Cake
District Of Columbia
Ice Cream
Florida
Key Lime Pie
Georgia
Peach Cobbler
Hawaii
Cheesecake
Idaho
Jello
Illinois
Ice Cream
Indiana
Texas Sheet Cake
Iowa
Texas Sheet Cake
Kansas
Texas Sheet Cake
Kentucky
Fudge
Louisiana
Pralines
Maine
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Maryland
Funnel Cake
Massachusetts
Ice Cream
Michigan
Carrot Cake
Minnesota
Jello
Mississippi
Banana Pudding
Missouri
Coconut Cake
Montana
Pumpkin Pie
Nebraska
Brownies
Nevada
Blondies
New Hampshire
Jello
New Jersey
Ice Box Cake
New Mexico
Bananas Foster
New York
Black & White Cookies
North Carolina
Coconut Cake
Yes, that’s right. According to this list, North Carolina’s favorite dessert is coconut cake. Hmmmm…. I mean it is one of my parents' favorite desserts and a Christmas dinner staple for our family. So honestly, I've been more suprirsed- I'm looking at you -the states that had jello as a favorite.
North Dakota
Banana Split
Ohio
Texas Sheet Cake
Oklahoma
Pecan Pie
Oregon
Carrot Cake
Pennsylvania
Ice Cream
Rhode Island
Donuts
South Carolina
Jello
South Dakota
Brownies
Tennessee
Chess Pie
Texas
Pecan Pie
Utah
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Vermont
Brownies
Virginia
Funnel Cake
Washington
Carrot Cake
West Virginia
Fudge
Wisconsin
Cherry Pie
