Those Evil, Evil Peeps

Yes, Peeps are back for Easter. Damn them.

How do you resist a Peep? Some people don't like them at all, and these are not my peeps. I can understand resisting the non-Easter Peeps, like Halloween Peeps or the weird Christmas tree Peeps. You can only stretch a Peep so far. But a yellow Easter Peep is far more special. The original, the classic.

Everyone knows "Peep" when you talk about Peeps. But what about the Bunnies? I must confess, I'm a bigger Bunny fan than Peep fan.

Peeps seem to have developed a cult-like following fairly recently. JustBorn, the company in Pennsylvania that manufacturers these sugar coated marshmallow treats (but are they really treats, or a diet/health saboteur?), has developed a NEW product for Easter '05:

It's a Peep sitting inside a hollow chocolate egg! I have to admit, I stopped walking rather suddenly in the Concord Super WalMart when I saw this. I think the JustBorn folks are onto people like me. I'm a curious person by nature, so I am intrigued with how they got the Peep inside the egg, what kind of seams there are on the egg, and what the condition of the Peep inside will be. Add the fact that I can rarely resist a Peep, and well, we have a likely customer.

Plus those bastards sent me a $1 off coupon for this new product via email. Yes, I subscribe to Peeps News and I am a Fan Club Member. Haha! Okay, the secret is out. But membership is free!

If I buy one of these new eggs, I'll do a review here. Stay tuned.

Here are some Peep fun-facts in the meantime:

Due to demand, Just Born now produces more than one billion MARSHMALLOW PEEPS® a year covering all of its holiday seasons.

It would take approximately 8,000 vertical PEEPS® to equal the height of the tallest building in North America, Sears Tower in Chicago.

In 1953, it took 27 hours to create one MARSHMALLOW PEEP®. Today, it takes six minutes.

People like to do curious things with PEEPS®- eat them stale, microwave them, freeze them, roast them, and use them as a pizza topping..

This Easter, Just Born estimated that more than 700 million MARSHMALLOW PEEPS® and Bunnies were consumed by men, women, and children throughout the United States and abroad.

Further reading:

http://www.marshmallowpeeps.com/ The official Peeps website

http://www.peepresearch.org/ Horrible, horrible experiments

http://www.badcasserole.com/peeps/ Peeps Pranks

http://www.omahug.org/jsw/pr0n/index.htm Peeps PORN! HOT!