Peeps - Love 'em or Hate 'em?

I hate them. But my mother-in-law loves them, so I save them for her. I think she'll turn into a "Peep" one day.

i have just completed setting out baskets, making little tiny bite marks in carrots, etc

oh and also, there are peep involved.


and as____ as my witness, they are horrid. anyone who thinks otherwise should be

I find them sicky sweet, but DH likes them so I always buy a pack to put with the other Easter candy.

I hate 'em. They're always so... chewy. But I did make sure they made it into the Easter baskets.

I thought they were gross. We only ever got them the one time. Nobody in the house would eat them. We had to toss them.

Seriously, I had to spit it out. I don't even think I found it too sweet. I just found it revolting.

Jersey Chick said:

I'll try blowing one up in the microwave - but I've a feeling that'll be kind of messy...

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Here... you can microwave your Peeps vicariously through YouTube: here, here, and here. No mess.

I would also like to propose federal legislation against Easter Grass. It is strictly prohibited in my house.

KTC said:

Seriously, I had to spit it out. I don't even think I found it too sweet. I just found it revolting.

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It's that gritty sugar coating. It's like eating a stale marshmallow, briefly dampened then rolled in neon sand.

Just thinking about it makes my teeth itch.

Devil Ledbetter said:

It's that gritty sugar coating. It's like eating a stale marshmallow, briefly dampened then rolled in neon sand.

Just thinking about it makes my teeth itch.

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Well... I like the idea of neon sand. Sounds pretty. But I hate anything marshmallow. I only eat marshmellows.

They are almost as bad as those orange, banana-flavored peanut things. Ick. But if you leave them get really stale, which isn't hard since nobody ever eats them till they're desperate, they're not so bad. That is if they're not pulled apart with all the grass stuck to them.

How about Hershey's Eggs? Oh, now I'm thinking about them. Got to have some.

What's wrong with you people? I eat Peeps once a year. And I order Revels from the UK once a year. That's my candy intake per annum and I love it.

Kerr said:

They are almost as bad as those orange, banana-flavored peanut things. Ick.

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I believe those are called circus peanuts. And yes, they are gross.

Kerr said:

They are almost as bad as those orange, banana-flavored peanut things. Ick.

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isn't that the way it always is?
you're having fun and someone comes along and crosses the line!!!

those peanut thingys are awesome!! sort of.

cray said:

isn't that the way it always is?
you're having fun and someone comes along and crosses the line!!!

those peanut thingys are awesome!! sort of.

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You can have mine, Cray. Whatever charges your batteries.

Autodidact said:

I would also like to propose federal legislation against Easter Grass. It is strictly prohibited in my house.

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Ditto. The last year we had Easter Grass was the first year we had a cat. Two words: Never. Again.

Stale peeps rule! Also microwaved and covered with chocolate chips--like the cheapest, gooiest, most revolting smores you can imagine.

I dunno...I feel embarrassed every time I eat one.

But then I have another.

AmyBA said:

Ditto. The last year we had Easter Grass was the first year we had a cat. Two words: Never. Again.

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The cat I had a teenager became deathly ill after eating Easter grass. We don't use it here either, as I have a lovely cat I hope will live for many years to come.

I know I've led a sheltered life, but I never even tasted a peeps.

Susie said:

I know I've led a sheltered life, but I never even tasted a peeps.

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Well, they're not chocolate so you probably wouldn't like them either.

Hillary said:

I love to blow them up in the microwave.

Are you trying to say there some other purpose for them?

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I stand corrected. Peeps can be used to waste over nine minutes of my life.

Points for creative use of holiday peeps and a gross banana-peanut thingy, though.

cray said:

isn't that the way it always is?
you're having fun and someone comes along and crosses the line!!!

those peanut thingys are awesome!! sort of.

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When I was five, I was playing with a friend in the front yard. The friend had just eaten a bunch of mozzarella cheese washed down with cherry Kool Aid. She ended up getting sick and vomiting these globular orange....things....in the grass. Her brother came over and picked one up; he thought it was a Circus Peanut.

I can't eat 'em.