People seem to either love Peeps or be disgusted by them. Or, they're like me - the first few Peeps are great, but once you get over the equilibrium point, they just make you sick. As long as I stay within my "limit" (about one row in a package) then they are delightfully sweet snacks. Easter Peeps are so festive for this time of year, too!
I know someone who still can't eat Peeps, and it goes back to high school, when he was stocking groceries. A case got damaged, so they couldn't shelve it. He took the whole case home and ate it over the course of just a few weeks. It was a lot of Peeps per day.
I have quite a few fun memories of Peeps. My brothers and I used to play with them. Mostly we made sculptures, squishing bits of the Peeps or sticking them together. We've also subjected them to some of the tests you can find at Peep Research, and our own evil ideas. Of course, we didn't have any high-tech equipment, but we improvised just fine. We microwaved them to see if they'd expand like marshmallows. We froze them to see if they would get crunchy. We soaked them in water, we heated them, and we did pretty much everything else we could. Surprisingly, after just about everything we did, they were still edible and tasted almost as good - except soaking in water. That just got weird. Unless we let it dry. The Peeps didn't really soak up the water, but a wet Peep is just nasty.
We had a pretty encouraging mother. She's a teacher, so she likes to let things be a learning experience. Of course, it didn't hurt that we were old enough to clean up after ourselves when we were done!
Peeps are fun. I'm sure if I gave some to my daughter this year (which I plan to) she'll do at least as much playing as eating. She has a sweet tooth just like me, and loves marshmallows, so once she starts eating them she'll love them. But she also likes brightly colored things, especially pink, and has a tendency to play with animal crackers and other shaped food, so I'm sure she will feel like Peeps are as much entertainment as treat. Peeps are something that I think we can relax the "don't play with food" rule a little bit:)
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