Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax: Peeps!

April 07, 2004

Peeps!

I have a love/hate relationship with Peeps. I love that they are a fun bit of Americana. I think they are cute as...well, little marshmallow chicks. What's cuter? I love the bizarre Peep subculture.

But as food...they are revolting.

As a joke, Victor enrolled me in the Peeps fan club. I proudly wear my Peeps t-shirt. But don't ask me to eat the nasty things.

Just Born has tried to expand Peeps to a year 'round thing, but of course Easter is still the prime Peep season. For your Peep viewing pleasure:

The official Peeps site
Scientific experiments on Peeps (Horrified? Then visit Ban Peeps Research!)
Peeps in Space
Lord of the Peeps

Some people have a little too much time on their hands, but at least they use that time creatively. Then there are those of us surfing the Peeps sites...

Oh, and from a few Easters ago...here's my Peep taking a little trip to the Lincoln Memorial.

Posted by Nic at April 7, 2004 02:40 PM | TrackBack

Comments

I've seen some dog-regurgitated six-week old (after Easter) Peeps. Probably will never be a fan.

That's some serious food coloring.

hln

Posted by: hln at April 7, 2004 03:28 PM

Oh yeah. That goes along with my "Peeps are toys, not food" idea.
We had a Peeps-ant incident that wasn't pretty.

Posted by: nic at April 7, 2004 06:01 PM

I think they are totally gross, but I figured that's just because I'm Jewish :)
(then again....my "peeps" have some food that I don't dig, either...)

Posted by: zenchick at April 7, 2004 11:22 PM

the pink ones are the best.

Posted by: liz at April 8, 2004 08:09 AM

I totally agree!! They may look cute but as a food I can't stand them!! And I'm not even Jewish!!

Posted by: John at April 8, 2004 09:29 AM

To be more exact, I enrolled the *dog* in the Peeps Fan Club because I wasn't sure how my sweetie would take it. Would she be mad? Would her sense of humor surface? Would she be revolted? Yes, actually, but she did laugh.

The dog had no comment.

Posted by: Victor at April 8, 2004 02:30 PM

Lord of the Peeps is a work of genius!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 10, 2004 03:59 PM

THIS IS REALLY CUTE AND FUNNY BUT DOING REALLY MEAN THINGS TO PEEPS MAKES YOU A BABY CHICK KILLER

Posted by: SHELBY at March 24, 2005 11:50 AM