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I love these things. It's best to let them sit out and get a little dried out so the outside is firm and the inside is soft. Then keep four of them in a row and just feed them into your mouth, like the kid is doing. It looks like someone constructed a Peeps bus, and someone made them into a Dali painting. The one with the cigarette is definitely research. I've heard that some people microwave them. Martha Stewart makes her own. There are now Peeps for other seasons, like Christmas and Halloween, but that's kind of a travesty, as are those new bright red ones. Fred Meyer is carrying Peeps dishtowels and a Peeps pillow.
from http://www.marshmallowpeeps.com
• The amount of PEEPS® chicks and bunnies eaten at Easter could more than circle
Earth’s circumference.
• The number of PEEPS® chicks, bunnies and other shapes made each day could make
a path from the factory door in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to the state of Maryland.
• The machines at the Just Born Factory can add 3800 PEEPS® eyes per minute!
• It would take approximately 172 MILLION PEEPS® bunnies end-to-end to circle
the moon!
• Over 70 million PEEPS® chicks lined up beak-to-tail are needed to reach
from New York City to Los Angeles.
• If you had 8000 PEEPS® bunnies, and you stood them in a straight vertical line,
you could reach the top of the Sears Tower in Chicago.
• Loyal PEEPS® fans LOVE their PEEPS®… fresh, stale, frozen and even on pizza!
• There are over 200 unofficial PEEPS® web sites!
• PEEPS® are so popular, they have been the best selling non-chocolate Easter
candy for the last decade.
• PEEPS® have become gourmet favorites as fondues, crème brule ingredients and
cappuccino toppings!
• In the early 1950’s, it took 27 HOURS to make one PEEPS® chick. Today it takes
six minutes!
• PEEPS® chicks and bunnies come in 5 colors. Yellow chicks are the most popular,
followed by pink, lavender, blue, and white.
• Each PEEPS® chick has 32 calories and 0 grams of fat.
Someone asked Nasrudin to guess what he had in his hand.
“Give me a clue,” said the Mulla.
“I'll give you several,” said the wag. “It is shaped like an egg, egg-sized, looks, tastes and smells like an egg. Inside it is yellow and white. It is liquid within before you cook it, coalesces with heat. It was, moreover, laid by a hen…”
“I know!” interrupted the Mulla. “It is some sort of cake.”
Posted by: Mullah Nasrudin | April 01, 2007 at 02:08 PM
I have never eaten a Peep. I have looked at them, considered it, but just never grabbed one and popped into my mouth!
In honor of this diary, I might just go buy a pack!
Love the joke by the Mullah!
Posted by: Zapata | April 01, 2007 at 02:18 PM
Arrest gives meaning to 'Easter grass'
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. -- Officers who pulled a man over for running a red light found a plush Easter bunny stuffed with marijuana in the car, police say.
The man had trouble finding his insurance documents Wednesday and asked to look for them in the back seat, police said.
When he stepped out of the car, the officer smelled marijuana and saw some on the floor, police said. The officer searched the car, found two baggies of marijuana in the glove box and saw the bunny. Inside the stuffed animal, which was holding an Easter basket, they found 16 small plastic bags of pot, police said.
The officer found hundreds of empty baggies and a digital scale, police said.
Ian Lawrence, 25, was charged with possession of marijuana, operating a drug factory, possession with intent to sell within 1,500 feet of a school and motor vehicle charges.
A telephone listing could not be found for Lawrence, of East Hartford.
Posted by: Easter Bunny | April 05, 2007 at 04:39 PM