It's that time of year to bring up the fruitcake of Easter.

PEEPS!

I love em! I stick em in the freezer for a week and it stales em nicely!

Robert and his friend Bruce have this "thing" going about PEEPS. Robert hosts a HUGE Easter open house event. Egg hunts. Easter Bonnet judging. Egg coloring. Guess how many Jelly Beans in the Jar. Gifts. Food, food, and more FOOD.

Bruce wrapped up a package of Purple Peeps and gifted to Robert the 1st year. Robert saved them, and re-gifted back to Bruce the 2nd year... Bruce ... regifted back the 3rd year...

Are 15 year old PEEPS properly stale?
I forgot who's giving and who's getting this year...

I think that hard as a rock qualifies them for pot scrubbers.

Roasted! See this posting: Peeps at NOG

Hitting Walgreens for the cheap peeps today, or tomorrow, or both!

96 cents at Wally World!

They'll be half-price tomorrow

I will be getting my NOG supply tomorrow.

For us (probably) deprived Canadians, what's a peep?
cheers
Ian

Well, that's a big disappointment. I will be cancelling my move to Canada! Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peeps

And of course, some people do more than eat them. From the annual diorama contest at the Washington Post: "Suddenly, There Was a Peep!"

Next time I need to wax the trailer, I'll just grab a PEEP and start rubbing

Peeps aren't all nice and innocent. Check out this Peep show (I can't take credit)
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Canadians don't have Peeps? Oh... the humanity! We will send to you immediately!

Peeps are a silky marshmallow covered in crunchy sugar (Presumably, stuck on with wax ) They come in pink, yellow and purple and the traditional ones are shaped like little chicks, + they have bunnies..

They used to be just for Easter, but now there are Halloween Peeps shaped like cats and pumpkins. They aren't the same.

We have peeps in Ontario. They must have them in B.C. too. I'll check with my daughter who lives out there in lotus land.

Hit Walgreens on the way home tonight and they haven't marked them down yet.

The article Patrick posted said they do not roast well.

Have fun with that.. they may be more colorful than the hose and pipe

I'm just going on what another camper told me. Byron said they were better than plain roasted mashmellows. If they aren't then maybe like the article we can have a peeps eating contest.

if ya leave em out for a couple of days, they may burn better.

White Peeps

My geocaching buddies claim they're better than roasted marshmellows. I don't eat either so I can't say first hand. But it's more fun watching the peeps burn than it is watching marshmellows burn.

We just arrived at our friend's house and on the counter were several boxes of yellow peeps -- most were gone. Seems they had a dinner party earlier in the day that got out of hand. Someone had the idea to deep fry the poor peeps.

They admitted it was not a good experience.

BTW---- when short of marshmallows for glaze on your yams/sweet potatoes---- Peeps are not a good substitute. I don't want to talk about it....... Larry

Don't worry, Ian and Vicki, I have you covered when it comes to Peeps. Already have them in the trailer ready to go to NOG! It will cost you some cuddle time with the kittens, though!

Adonna

Anyone ever hear of Peeps Jousting?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I18FIrE5xfk

Thanks Adonna ..........................I think.
cheers
Ian

I got eight boxes, ate one and the rest will go in the freezer to wait for the NOG. Got pink and yellow. I have heard both ways on the roasting. Guess we will have to experiment to see how to best roast peeps. They do strange things in the microwave but we'll see how they do over the open flame.

So you will know more than you ever wanted to know about peeps by the time you head home to Canada.

Wow!

The Furby in the microwave was pretty weird, too....

My favorite method for properly stalling them is... time.

However, I can't generally wait that long. Placing them in the freezer seems to do most of the trick.

I have some in a side drawer of my desk from last year. I think those are overdone.

Gee, you can probably resole your shoes with them about now. Or if you chimney needs repair, maybe you can use them as a spare brick or two?

OR, since the inside of my rig is gel coat, I can use em like one of the magic erasers to get off the little scuffs that happen.

Well, this poll lacked a couple critical options! Although, they were alluded to in a couple of the links. Peeps are a time-honored decoration and craft item (the diorama as an example). They are an essential and basic component of many microwave 'experiments' in combustion.

Years ago, I attended a vegetarian Easter dinner where the main entree was a rabbit shaped vegie-loaf surrounded by Peeps - after that, the fact that a parrot was walking around the table from shoulder-to-shoulder begging food off our forks, didn't even seem odd.

Peeps are not so much a food item as a creative entertainment item.

You can say the same thing about snorting coca cola out your nose, but I don't like that either

75% off on peeps today at our Walgreens!

Thanks for the ideas... here's my plan:
Tomorrow, I am going to a Society for Conservation Biology fundraiser. It's sort of a dessert potluck only your dessert is supposed to represent an endangered species or habitat. SOooo, I will go to Walgreens and get a pack of pink Peeps. Then I'll go to the ice cream store and beg a few of those tiny sample spoons. If I poke the little spoon handles in the Peeps' mouths they can be Roseate Spoonbills!!!

Think it'll work?

I like it!

Bet those wont be endangered.

You were right, Byron. They all survived the potluck without being eaten by predators!

The Ding Darlings did win "Most Creative", a $20 gift certificate to downtown Athens' restaurants and shops, and a beautiful Audubon calendar. There were some very cool concoctions at the meeting! We all had a lot of fun and a TON of sugar. I should have brought a designated driver with me

Thank you for the inspiration and encouragement.
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I LOVE IT!

GOOD ON YA!

Wow, what a creative desert. I see cake, peeps, and green frosting but what was the water made of? TAlk about a sugar overload. Hey, Donna, how about if we make our name tags for the nog out of peeps? At least they wouldn't spoil.

Might need a fly swatter tho. Hey, whatever turns your crank Linda!