April 11, 2004
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Happy Easter to those who are celebrating, and Happy Second Sunday in April to everyone else!
As a little gift to you, Dear Reader, and because I am fairly at a loss for fresh inspiration due to the fact that this has been a Week From Hell here in my house (the week started with Bernie coming down with a nasty stomach virus, continued through my email program going haywire and causing me to miss all my eBay correspondence for this week, and ending with me coming down with the same nasty stomach virus — which I am just now beginning to get over) I have decided to reprint the infamous “Peeps Blog” from last year. A few of the links no longer work, but you will still get the general idea.:
Tonight I am thinking about marshmallows…
because
This year, Marshmallow Peeps turn 50!
So in honor of this auspicious occasion and to celebrate one of my absolute all-time favorite candies, I made this nifty new background for my site.
It started with a picture off this article –
Peeps anniversary article with lots of fun links
and I modified it a bit. I know you won’t be able to see the comments as well again, but you can always highlight them and read them that way.
Marshmallow lovers unite!
I know not everyone shares my appetite for Peeps. Or marshmallows for that matter.
Witness this article:
People who need Peeps: It’s scary
One of my old friends used to call Peeps
Evil Mutant Sponge Chickens!
But I don’t agree with her in the least.
Nor with my husband who swears that eating a 4-pack of the little critters is entirely too much sugar. This particular battle raged on in my house for the longest time, until I finally got a bottle of Lipton Iced Tea, just the regular sized bottle that nobody seems to have any objection to drinking all at once, and compared the nutritional data. Just about the same amount of calories from sugar. And I would far prefer to have something to chew if I am going to take in that much sugar, thank you very much! So give me a pack of Peeps and a bottle of unsweetened iced tea any day.
I believe I am in the minority, as an adult marshmallow lover. Marshmallows are one of my favorite foods, and I truly believe Peeps are one of the more highly evolved forms of the lowly marshmallow that engendered them.
The ultimate expression of marshmallow-ness, of course, is chocolate covered marshmallows, which combines two of the most important food groups in my estimation. If you added a dollop of peanut butter, that would make it a darned near balanced diet!
Remember my dogs?
(heehee, like I ever stop talking about them long enough for anyone to forget them)
Even my dogs love marshmallows.
They were raised by a breeder who gives her Pomeranians marshmallows for rewards. She uses the mini marshmallows, but I prefer the full sized ones for myself. So I bite them in half, and half again. Each dog gets 1/4 and I get half. It has become a little marshmallow-eating ritual with us. We haven’t developed a ritual for eating Peeps. The dogs would have to be really good for me to share any of them!
The first year we had our trailer, Dolly (the momma dog-the one who is lying on her back in the picture) discovered the joys of marshmallows toasted on the campfire. She even waits patiently for them to cool enough so she can have them. People at camp do not believe this dog sitting and waiting for a marshmallow. When we walk through the campground and go visiting other campers, she goes nuts over anyone who has marshmallows. People always say “no, no, you don’t want this sweetie, dogs don’t eat marshmallows” and then I have to explain that our “princess” doesn’t know she is a dog.
In the camp store, the marshmallows are kept on a bottom shelf. If I walk in there with Dolly on the leash, she will sit in front of that shelf and look at me with these big sad puppy eyes. She knows exactly where to go each time, too. The camp owners get a big kick out of that.
Marshmallow Peeps in Popular Culture.
They are more than just a candy, they are a phenomenon.
If you don’t believe me, check out some of these links…or the links within these links…you can spend all day surfing Peeps sites!
Salon: “Where do Peeps come from?”
EPICURIOUS: PLAYING: EASTER PEEPS
But as for me, I am through talking about marshmallows and Peeps. It is time to take action. I wonder if I have the ingredients for a Blue Peep Pie or maybe a Choc-O-Peep Milkshake?
bye for now
I am off in search of marshmallows…
Comments (6)
Thanks for the memory, not of Peeps which I never liked (“sponge” says it all), but of Bugger, the basset hound/terrier mix I had thirty-some years ago. A marshmallow, full-size, could keep him busy for ever so long. He seemed to be having a hard time with the sticky things, but then he’d come back for more.
Feel Better!
Chocolate covered marshmallows?! That must be heaven!
Happy Peeps Day, hon. I am sorry you had such a bad week!
Hope you feel better really soon. :hugs:
Thanks for reprinting this entry, it is hilarious! I never cared for those peeps, but my mom likes them.They are cute to look at though.
Hope you get to feeling better very soon.
My mom loves Peeps, but she won’t share with me!
my teeth are aching, just reading this.