So what are you opinion on the infamous Peeps?!?!
http://www.jgower.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/peeps.jpg

Love 'em.

Easter ain't done without at least one box of Peep Jousting.

Sorry I find them thoroughly disgusting.

I like them when they're here but don't miss them when their gone.  They have these strawberry creme hearts for Valentine's day that are awesome.

Can anyone explain what a peep consists of and what do they taste like?

They are too sweet for my liking, however I LOVE to put them in the microwave and make GIANT peeps out of them! ;D :D

They are too sweet for my liking, however I LOVE to put them in the microwave and make GIANT peeps out of them! ;D :D
They look to sugary for my liking.

They look to sugary for my liking.


yes, they are VERY sweet.

yes, they are VERY sweet.
I am glad to say nothing like this is available over here.

Peeps rock my world. I love them.

I like them fresh, stale, out of the freezer.....

YUM!!!!!! and i eat them all at one sitting. tons of them.
deeeeeelish

Can anyone explain what a peep consists of and what do they taste like?
They are marshmallows with a fine sugar coating.

They are marshmallows with a fine sugar coating.
Thanks.

They are marshmallows with a fine sugar coating.


but not just marshmallow, really sweet marshmallow. and the sugar is really crunchy sometimes.
the highlight of the season!

but not just marshmallow, really sweet marshmallow. and the sugar is really crunchy sometimes.
the highlight of the season!
Sugary, crunchy like honeycomb?

Ugh, no. They hurt my teeth. :P

Ugh, no. They hurt my teeth. :P
In that case I will try them then.

Too sweet for me.  8-P



Cat

in my house we see who can do the most strange things with them...at college we took a couple dozen chicks and put them in the pond-and lit them on fire!

Nah, I used to like them as a kid. I think I just ate too many.

Sugary, crunchy like honeycomb?


No, sugary and crunchy like granulated.

If you've never had a Peep, but you do have access to marshmallows...

(Marshmallows in the States are foamy/sticky areated mixtures of corn syrup and glycerine, lightly dusted in corn starch to prevent them from sticking together.  They're soft and fluffly, and wholly unlike the hard and chalk-like "marshmallows" found in some breakfast cereals.)

...Anyways, if Marshmallows are "fluffy sweet cylindrical things dusted with powder so they don't stick together and can therefore be sold in plastic bags", you can reproduce the taste of a Peep by tearing a marshmallow in half, dipping the freshly-exposed bit of the mallow in a bowl of sugar, and eating it.  Crunch, crunch!

The only real difference is that Peeps used colored sugar, and a couple of daubs of brown carnauba wax for the facial features.  Doesn't make any difference to the taste, though.  Just plain yummy, but keep your dentist on speed-dial.

I was gonna tease and ask if they make them with Splenda, and guess what?  They do!  :-http://farm1.static.flickr.com/254/451524108_d52d51b258.jpg?v=0

I was gonna tease and ask if they make them with Splenda, and guess what?  They do!  :-http://farm1.static.flickr.com/254/451524108_d52d51b258.jpg?v=0


no what's the point of that?


that's about as useful as

oh I don't know....


non-alcoholic beer?
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no what's the point of that?


that's about as useful as

oh I don't know....


non-alcoholic beer?
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Non-Alcoholic Beer, waste of time drinking it.

I like Peeps. My mom got me into them (just like she got me into some other sweet confections) and I could usually outdo her on eating them, but now I usually can eat a few and feel satisfied. I was at a kitchen store yesterday (Sur la Table) and ran across a book on baking with Peeps. I saw the cutest thing ever in it: A Peeps wedding cake, with two chicks on top, one with a bow tie. I thought, Now that's what I want as my wedding cake topper!  :)

no what's the point of that?


that's about as useful as

oh I don't know....


non-alcoholic beer?
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  Heh, yeah like near beer of decaf coffee... ;D

  Peeps are an Easter thing, no?  I've had them but I can't remember if they even have a taste.  Just pure sugar like candy corn...

  If it's a seasonal treat, Easter for instance, the Cadbury eggs are scrumpdillyish...

I never liked Peeps. Too sweet. Not sure what the Splenda version is like, though.

I was gonna tease and ask if they make them with Splenda, and guess what?  They do!   :-http://farm1.static.flickr.com/254/451524108_d52d51b258.jpg?v=0
Holy crap!!  Somebody can find a way to suck the fun out of EVERYTHING!

i'd have to be paid handsomely to eat sugar free peeps.

i never eat sugar...peeps give me my year's worth!

the great thing is they actually make your teeth hurt.

I always buy a box or two each year.  Not a favorite but I do eat them just because.  Heads get eaten off first .

^  ;D No Mercy!

I voted 'Yes' - I like Peeps.  Anybody else besides me prefer them just slightly stale?  ::)

(Open the package and let it sit open a day or two)


I was gonna tease and ask if they make them with Splenda, and guess what?  They do!   :-[   
how utterly amazing  :)  they make sugar-free Peeps


Thanks for that info!    I actually eat lots of S/F candy.  It's usually pretty tasty.

No and hell no I don't like 'em  8-P

^  ;D No Mercy!


Nope, none at all.  ;D  Chocolate bunnies do not stand a chance either.  The ears are chewed go off first, then the head....after that straight to the behind.  :D

$1 for ten.  I'm tempted to buy some just so I can join in with how awful they are.

$1 for ten.  I'm tempted to buy some just so I can join in with how awful they are.
Do you recall on seeing these or anything similar in the UK?

It's like eating marshmallowed sugar,once in a while is fine,but my mother-in-law loves them,she wants them year round.

Do you recall on seeing these or anything similar in the UK?


Don't recall anything similar.  However something might spring to mind when I actually eat one.  At the moment the shape is a distraction.

Don't recall anything similar.  However something might spring to mind when I actually eat one.  At the moment the shape is a distraction.
The thought of all that sugar is off putting.

Nope, none at all.  ;D  Chocolate bunnies do not stand a chance either.  The ears are chewed go off first, then the head....after that straight to the behind.  :D


one of my favorite cartoons

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r63/kid_with_power/bunnies/bunnies.jpg

http://frostfirezoo.com/files/u1/peeps245.jpg

http://frostfirezoo.com/files/u1/peeps245.jpg


;D  I like that.

Peep Calvary unit.

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w257/caturdayskwerl2/NOT%20CATS/peeps.jpg

Don't like them myself, mainly because I'm not a fan of marshmellows(at least when they're done like that).

Peep Fans in Ohio Stadium

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/55/120126030_b2fde8914e_m.jpg

Peep Fans in Ohio Stadium

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/55/120126030_b2fde8914e_m.jpg


That is so cute. :)

http://frostfirezoo.com/files/u1/peeps245.jpg


I needed a laugh and that provided it!

Peep Attack!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/205/475845422_db575254c0_m.jpg

Peep Attack!

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*shrieks* Giant angry marshmallow!!!

The First Date

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/185/430466860_1fa7abd4ac_m.jpg

Peep Fans in Ohio Stadium

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/55/120126030_b2fde8914e_m.jpg


This is a good one, even if i don't like Ohio.

No because I don't care for marshmallows.

Now who said that Peeps are unhealthy?

































http://sidesalad.net/archives/PeepsCamels.jpg

This guy's just chillin' with his peeps.

...and, by "chillin'", he means "liquid nitrogen style".  When sufficiently chilled, a peep will shatter.

This guy's just chillin' with his peeps.

...and, by "chillin'", he means "liquid nitrogen style".  When sufficiently chilled, a peep will shatter.


Thats Great!!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2234/2359353223_8a9aee117f_m.jpg

Abbey Road Peeps

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2234/2359353223_8a9aee117f_m.jpg

Abbey Road Peeps


Too much!!!    ;D  ;D  ;D

i think i tried them once, they make them during christmas too, they have snowmen peeps, they also make chocolate ones.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2234/2359353223_8a9aee117f_m.jpg

Abbey Road Peeps


That's groovy!!! 8)

http://www.halloweenscene.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/4180-Baby-Peeps.jpg

Oh dear!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/128607932_23cf8da054_m.jpg

So surreal?

http://media.npr.org/programs/atc/images/2006/peepsbucket200.jpg

There you go, peep flavoured chicken?

http://www.halloweenscene.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/4180-Baby-Peeps.jpg

Oh dear!


That's disturbing.

My father in law likes them, and extremely stale ones at that. The ones they had out at Easter this year were from last year. I passed.

My cat likes stalking them. He dug one of them out of the candy basket and tried to kill it by shaking it and biting it around the neck. It made me proud of him. Of course, cleaning up all the peep parts stuck to his fur and face was not fun...

Ant

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2307/2412125159_9fbc638f53_m.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2307/2412125159_9fbc638f53_m.jpg


An edible Easter hat!!! ;D

I still haven't opened the packet I bought before Easter

I still haven't opened the packet I bought before Easter



They're probably stale now... you could send them to Ant's father in law  ;D

They're probably stale now... you could send them to Ant's father in law  ;D


I thought I might make 'smores out of them.  I found a way of doing it in the microwave

I thought I might make 'smores out of them.  I found a way of doing it in the microwave


ew  do the peeps retain their color when melted?

ew  do the peeps retain their color when melted?




I'll let you know later!

Where my peeps at?  Ooops I forgot. I have no peeps because I don't like them.  For some unexplained reason, I never like peeps.  The same goes for that candy corn stuff at Halloween. 

Today I bought some Peeps ghosts for Hallowe'en

http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/candywarehouse_2023_32766067


I thought they might look good floating in hot chocolate

they make a cat too

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/EDDocsWife/peeps_halloween.jpg

they make a cat too

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/EDDocsWife/peeps_halloween.jpg





Hmm I didn't spot the cat in the supermarket today, just the ghosts and the pumpkins

I usually end up getting the ghosts.  I think Peeps do maintain color after being nuked.

Happy Easter.

As we all know, there's no wrong way to eat a Peep.


That's disturbing.


Oh, no.  You want disturbing, you gotta find out that there is a wrong way to eat a Peep. 

Remember folks, that magical interaction between yeast and sugar is what gives us everything from bread to beer... but it's still a bad idea in uncontrolled circumstances.

I usually buy a package or two of peeps during Easter but I didn't get any this year.  They tend to just sit in the fridge and get hard. 

I don't dig the Peeps. 

I maybe the only person in Indiana that isn't addicted to Peeps. All I hear in the papers on Easter is how addicting the chick shaped Peeps are are and that Hoosiers would riot if they ever ran out of them. I won't miss them. (I feel the same about Lucky Charms marshmallows (or marshmellows, the preferred way of spelling in Hoosierland.

I am a freak for Peeps.  I like them all. I also like the ones they make for Christmas as well as Halloween. Over the Easter Holiday I likely went through 25 packages of Peeps...I know it's sad but it makes me happy!

I am a freak for Peeps.  I like them all. I also like the ones they make for Christmas as well as Halloween. Over the Easter Holiday I likely went through 25 packages of Peeps...I know it's sad but it makes me happy!


http://www.marshmallowpeeps.com/

I think they let you buy them in bulk on line. :)

From the Peep Art linked to from the Easter Avatar Thread.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2018/2437791820_10bea6077c_z.jpg

Split peep soup (throw some blue food coloring into a yellowish creme brulee custard, and do the obvious with the peeps) looks like an awesome dessert.

From the Peep Art linked to from the Easter Avatar Thread.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2018/2437791820_10bea6077c_z.jpg

Split peep soup (throw some blue food coloring into a yellowish creme brulee custard, and do the obvious with the peeps) looks like an awesome dessert.


must be tasty!  :P

food coloring makes me sick    also, I hate peeps.

http://junk2jewels.typepad.com/junk_2_jewels_boutique/images/2008/03/28/peeps_cake_2.jpg

Look at the stuff you can make with peeps.  :o

Peeps are O.K..  I liked the vanilla flavored ones they used to sell for Valentine's Day.  I'm not sure if they still make those. My mom used to like Peeps when they got stale.  8-P

Peeps are O.K..  I liked the vanilla flavored ones they used to sell for Valentine's Day.  I'm not sure if they still make those. My mom used to like Peeps when they got stale.  8-P


My friend Lance prefers them this way

My friend Lance prefers them this way


I prefer them in the package sitting on the store shelf  8-P

Peeps are O.K..  I liked the vanilla flavored ones they used to sell for Valentine's Day.  I'm not sure if they still make those. My mom used to like Peeps when they got stale.  8-P


What's so good about peeps,It's like chewing on one big sugarcube. :P

What's so good about peeps,It's like chewing on one big sugarcube. :P


Well, for one thing, it's like chewing on one big sugar cube!

I like Sugarcubes....  I hate marshmallow (except smores)...  This is where peeps and I disagree :P

Peeps were always there to laugh at me because I ate all the GOOD Easter candy.  They'd lounge in the Easter grass and jeer at me, "Us or nothing, loser!"

I'd leave the basket on the shelf and let the peeps turn into rock.  Mom would throw them out at the end of May.  Who gets the last laugh, huh, Peeps?  Maxwell does!
;D

We often take a friend of my husband (and friend's mom) to the grocery store (once a week).  The week after Easter we got home with our groceries (why make two trips, we're at the store anyway, just shop when they do.) Unpacked our bag and there was a box of pink peeps.  Blech.  I despise them.  I called the friend to see if maybe their peeps got into our grocery bag by accident.  Nope, they had peeps too (not purchased.)  Apparently the store put them in our sack while bagging up the rest of the stuff.  I guess that was nice and a good way to recycle, if I happened to like them... but I don't.  I'm thinking of passing them along sorta like fruitcake.  lol

Peeps were always there to laugh at me because I ate all the GOOD Easter candy.  They'd lounge in the Easter grass and jeer at me, "Us or nothing, loser!"

I'd leave the basket on the shelf and let the peeps turn into rock.  Mom would throw them out at the end of May.  Who gets the last laugh, huh, Peeps?  Maxwell does!
;D


That's why it's best to eat them while they're soft.

I'm thinking of passing them along sorta like fruitcake.  lol


Put them on an ant-proof shelf in your kitchen.  When and if the board ever shows up in Vegas, they will be in demand.  The longer it takes, the better they'll taste, even if I have to dunk 'em in coffee in order to prevent myself from breaking a tooth.

I voted no, never liked them even as a child.

The Washington Post's sixth annual Peep Diorama: Peeps Show VI (2012).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2012/03/09/Magazine/Images/peeps033_1331304121.jpg

Bonus: Not a slideshow!

No

http://www.marshmallowpeeps.com/peepsworld/general-store

I voted "Other" for I have never tasted them.

I voted "Other" for I have never tasted them.

They taste as if you were eating sugar and food coloring. That's it.

I voted "Other" for I have never tasted them.


You ever eaten a marshmallow?

OK, eat half a marshmallow.  Then take the gooey-sticky-part that's left.  Dunk it in granulated sugar so that the sugar sticks to the freshly-bitten marshmallow.  That second half is what Peeps taste like.  They're just marshmallow encrusted with colored granulated sugar.  No chocolate.  No flavor.  Just awesome.

You ever eaten a marshmallow?

OK, eat half a marshmallow.  Then take the gooey-sticky-part that's left.  Dunk it in granulated sugar so that the sugar sticks to the freshly-bitten marshmallow.  That second half is what Peeps taste like.  They're just marshmallow encrusted with colored granulated sugar.  No chocolate.  No flavor.  Just awesome.


Dr. Candystein, mad confectioner, tried to infuse marshmallow with life force.  Peeps are the aborted result of the failed experiment.
:D

You ever eaten a marshmallow?

OK, eat half a marshmallow.  Then take the gooey-sticky-part that's left.  Dunk it in granulated sugar so that the sugar sticks to the freshly-bitten marshmallow.  That second half is what Peeps taste like.  They're just marshmallow encrusted with colored granulated sugar.  No chocolate.  No flavor.  Just awesome.


It tastes like you're eating a rubber marshmallow.  :P

You ever eaten a marshmallow?

OK, eat half a marshmallow.  Then take the gooey-sticky-part that's left.  Dunk it in granulated sugar so that the sugar sticks to the freshly-bitten marshmallow.  That second half is what Peeps taste like.  They're just marshmallow encrusted with colored granulated sugar.  No chocolate.  No flavor.  Just awesome.
Just think of all those trips to a dentist?

Many thanks plus karma.

who here had toasted peeps?

Peeps are best when stale. Buy them, put them in a cabinet for a few weeks then they are perfect.

throw them in the garbage, then they're perfect.

Peeps are best when stale. Buy them, put them in a cabinet for a few weeks then they are perfect.


Aren't they still chewy?

throw them in the garbage, then they're perfect.


If we all liked the same things life would be pretty boring.


Aren't they still chewy?


A little chewy and a lot less gooey.

If we all liked the same things life would be pretty boring.



I know  I'm just in a mood to play argue rand maybe evil and whatever else right now.

I voted no, never liked them even as a child.


The only way I can eat them, I've found, was in the form of Smores.

The only way I can eat them, I've found, was in the form of Smores.


Stale peeps, fresh peeps, I'm not fussy, but if you must have your peeps in s'mores form, let 'em fight to the death first:

BEHOLD, Peep Jousting!

0Z3ONvyiscE

  - YouTube search for "Peep Jousting" yields "About 13,300 results"
  - YouTube search for "Peep Jousting 2012" yields "About 6,760 results"

So put each combatant on a graham cracker and a square of chocolate, and have at it!  Winner gets eaten first!

peep show they turn on table around
joust to see who breaks up and melts down

I like to steep my peeps in a cup of boiling water and make me some peeps tea!
:P

Stale peeps, fresh peeps, I'm not fussy, but if you must have your peeps in s'mores form, let 'em fight to the death first:

BEHOLD, Peep Jousting!

0Z3ONvyiscE

  - YouTube search for "Peep Jousting" yields "About 13,300 results"
  - YouTube search for "Peep Jousting 2012" yields "About 6,760 results"

So put each combatant on a graham cracker and a square of chocolate, and have at it!  Winner gets eaten first!


Always found it funny how they puff up in the microwave.

Stale peeps, fresh peeps, I'm not fussy, but if you must have your peeps in s'mores form, let 'em fight to the death first:

BEHOLD, Peep Jousting!

0Z3ONvyiscE

  - YouTube search for "Peep Jousting" yields "About 13,300 results"
  - YouTube search for "Peep Jousting 2012" yields "About 6,760 results"

So put each combatant on a graham cracker and a square of chocolate, and have at it!  Winner gets eaten first!


nothing will happen to the peeps, they're only made of marshmallow so nothing will happen to them when you put them into the microwave.

nothing will happen to the peeps, they're only made of marshmallow so nothing will happen to them when you put them into the microwave.


Tell you what.  Put a peep in a microwave for 30 seconds.  But unless there's a big plate beneath it, it's gonna be your microwave, and you're gonna have to clean it up.  They don't explode, but they do melt, inflate to gargantuan proportions, and then deflate to a puddle of gooey ooze.  If that's your definition of "nothing", you're welcome to it.  But placed atop a graham cracker and a slab of chocolate, that's my definition of "awesome".

Tell you what.  Put a peep in a microwave for 30 seconds.  But unless there's a big plate beneath it, it's gonna be your microwave, and you're gonna have to clean it up.  They don't explode, but they do melt, inflate to gargantuan proportions, and then deflate to a puddle of gooey ooze.  If that's your definition of "nothing", you're welcome to it.  But placed atop a graham cracker and a slab of chocolate, that's my definition of "awesome".


I'd throw a scoop of coffee Haagen-Dazs on top of it straight out the microwave, and then dig in!
:)

nothing will happen to the peeps, they're only made of marshmallow so nothing will happen to them when you put them into the microwave.


Well...nothing will happen to the peeps if you stick them in the microwave and don't turn the microwave on...  Otherwise...

I'm tempted to buy some yucky peeps just to commit marshmallocide in the microwave.  Wheeeeeeeee

no what's the point of that?


that's about as useful as

oh I don't know....


non-alcoholic beer?
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Going off topic here, but speaking of non alcoholic beer...

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

I'd throw a scoop of coffee Haagen-Dazs on top of it straight out the microwave, and then dig in!
:)


love your idea.

http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Slideshows/_production/ss-120404-Peeps/persistenceofPeeps2006.ss_full.jpg

Persistence of memory (a fish!) / Peeps in a microwave (happy Easter!)  But that was from 2006, so how about something new?

http://mng-twincities.smugmug.com/Peeps/Peeps/Peeps-2013-pics/i-RvnxbrK/0/L/PeepsRestinPeep-L.jpg

Rest in Peeps, and Happy 60th Birthday, Peeps!

They now have watermelon peeps. 8-P

http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Slideshows/_production/ss-120404-Peeps/persistenceofPeeps2006.ss_full.jpg

Persistence of memory (a fish!) / Peeps in a microwave (happy Easter!)  But that was from 2006, so how about something new?

Of course you mean Peepsistence of Memory?  ;D

They now have watermelon peeps. 8-P


Did you taste them yet?

Never like them, they don't taste good. They're nice for displaying them though.

Did you taste them yet?

no, just the thought is gross enough.  Even more gross is there is now Peep flavored milk.  :o

no, just the thought is gross enough.  Even more gross is there is now Peep flavored milk.  :o


marshmallow flavored milk?  8-P

marshmallow flavored milk?  8-P


Not just any kind of marshmallow.  Peep flavored. :P

Not just any kind of marshmallow.  Peep flavored. :P


Did you taste it?

I like Peeps. The first time I ate one, I must have been 2 or 3 and some came in a big Easter basket my mother had put together for me. She pulled the cellophane off and I ate them all.  ;D
They were little pink ones cause Mom was pink crazy and wanted me to have pink everything. LOL