Since Easter is quickly approaching, I got to thinking of Peeps. How can I not? They're everywhere!!

Ok, I admit it - they give me the creeps! Especially the blue chicks that look like they're suffocating! A coworker used to strategically leave them on my desk each Easter. Ever put one in the microwave?

So... do you love them or hate them?

I think they are gross and I agree some of them are scary!!!

As a kid, I LOVED them. Now, not so much, but I still think they're cute.

Loved them when I was little, dont care for them now. But my kids love them so I still get them every year!

I've always thought that they were nasty just like jellybeans, I don't mind the way they look.

I hate them! With a passion! LOL

I like to leave them out for a couple of days to get a little stale. Very weird, I know.

My kids like to have the peep wars in the microwave every easter.

I LOVE THEM! I ate a whole pack just the other day. Felt a little sick afterwards.

Absolutely, positively DESPISE those monsters!

We were just discussing this on another forum I'm a member of. They know my extreme dislike for them and we were entertaining ourselves with various peep pictures. I'll see if I can get them here. A friend of mine created the "5 ways to kill a peep" series.

Neither love nor hate. I may eat one or two each year.

OK, excuse our morbid humor but she did this and it cracked me up. Here is the montage of how to kill a peep:

By hanging



By decapitation



By drowning, preferably with a rock



With a big truck



And her fav - deep fry it and serve it up with buffalo sauce, ranch and celery




This was a random pic someone passed along - a peep show!

OMG Ironbaker! Those are hilarious!! I LOVE IT!!!

I named the last one I got at work after DH's landlord, then stuck paper clips in him and hung it - voodoo Peep! that was about 3 years ago... wonder why I haven't gotten one in a few years? Hmmm...

Aww! That "peep show" is adorable! But peeps are gross!

I love them, but only after I have opened the package and let them get hard as a rock. I don't care for them when they are soft and fresh, only stale and hard.

A "Peep Show"! Too funny!

Oh dear god, I can't believe she murdered those poor peeps!!!

All this talk about peeps is making me crave some, and the only ones I have are hidden in my closet for Easter baskets....!

I would rather scrub toilets in a Women's Prison that eat Peeps.

But "Peep Show" was hysterical!

The Just Born hq (Peeps manufacturer) is located here near me, and they are my client. I have them over for lunch all the time, they have meetings and other functions here regularly, and my contact always brings a big bag of Peeps, Mine and Ikes, and whatever else they make, and I always give the Peeps to this gross co-worker of mine that scarf them down in like 2 seconds flat. For Christmas one year, I collected Peeps from the whole year, let them go stale, and hot glued them onto a styrofoam cone and made the most beautiful topiary you've ever seen-all out of Peeps. SHE CRIED. Then a few months later, we had roaches and ants in our office.

The company has a "Peepsmobile" that is a bright yellow Volkswagon beetle that has been modified to look like a Peep. So cute!

We buy extra peeps at Easter and save them for when we go camping in the summer. There is nothing better than a roasted peep...the sugar on the outside carmelizes and the peep melts. Peep smores are the best!

I have no idea what peeps are but those photos are too funny!

Peeps are an Easter must-have. Marshmallow shaped into a "peep"...although real peeps don't look like this...they have a sugar coating on the outside. They started with only yellow peeps, but now you can get almost any color and shape throughout the year. Happy Easter everybody!

Paula

IMHO you might just as well eat those sparkle candies straight from the jar and/or sugar by the spoonful!

I do love the "peep show", that is priceless!

I had my first Peep today. Ick. They were soft, but they tasted stale to me, no flavor at all. Didn't taste like a marshmallow to me either. My MIL even dipped their "bottoms" in chocolate and I still couldn't swallow it. I think they are just a tradition that you have to buy at Easter, but I've never seen anyone actually eat one!

oooh, i love them when they are all hard and stale. we used to put them in the microwave and 'kill' them! it was fun! dh bought my two boys chocolate bunnies for easter and they were kinda gross. and i think the colored ones (pink, blue, anything but yellow and white) taste bitter.

The vanilla creme ghost peeps at Halloween are actually tasty. I guess they sell them around the country and not just here in Peepsville.

First off, I think peeps are gross. However, I think the peepmobile thing is neat and I'd love to see a picture of that. (People think of everything these days!)

I hadn't seen the 5 ways to kill a peep pictures but I have seen the peep show and about spit my coke on the computer screen when I saw it the first time I was laughing so hard.

My inorganic Chemistry teacher in college used to take peeps and demonstrate vacuum pressure by putting a peep into a vacuum chamber and hooking it up to a stream of water. It became a popular trick and she would do it every semester for her students. The peep's body would expand to about 2 to 3 xs as big and when she would release the pressure and take the peep out she would continue the days lesson. At the end of class she would take a non-altered peep and compare it side by side to the peep that had been in the vacuum chamber and the vacuum chamber peep was actually smaller than it was originally. It was a really neat trick to show some simple physics/chemistry. Every test we had a couple of bonus questions and at least one was about some disney movie or character. She was an awesome teacher!

Sorry, I know this conversation was over like 2 weeks ago but I saw the topic and just had to share!