Mar 18th 2008 By Brian Childs

Peep of Faith -- The Most Heavenly Easter Candy Dioramas

What is it about sugary-sweet marshmallow Peeps that makes us want to violate them, dress up them up and take pictures?

Peeps have used their mind-numbing cuteness to take over the Internet with over 200 websites, as well as two Peeps diorama photo contests hosted by the Seattle Times and the Washington Post. They have been the best-selling, non-chocolate Easter candy for a decade, and the amount of Peeps that will be eaten this year, if lined up, would circle the globe.

Behold -- the chameleon power of Peep that makes Meryl Streep look like an amateur.

Peeps

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Tags: candy - Easter - nsfw - peeps

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Saturday 22 March

By Cheryl

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People please....calm down...yes, it is just about Easter candy but you have to admit that Matt was right on so many levels. I'm 55 & I remember when kids could go Trick or Treating (another pagan tradition) for blocks & blocks & not have to have their goodies x-rayed before they ate it. Parents took the responsibility of raising their children & teaching them right from wrong instead of expecting teachers, police officers & the courts to do it for them. Kids didn't have to be scanned for weapons when they walked into a school building even though every boy from age 7 up carried a pocket knife with never a thought to use it on one another. I hate that my grandchildren can't play in the yard without supervision due to the fear of being approached by the known sexual predator who lives in the next block. The old days weren't perfect but life was a lot easier then. It scares me to think that one day my grandchildren may look back on these times & think "those were the good old days". We're going to hell in a hand basket........

Saturday 22 March

By me me

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I have a 50 cent peep, It has nine holes in it

Saturday 22 March

By Diane

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Remember The Lipstick Killer or Ed Gein in the 40's, and the Charlie Starkweather murder spree in the fifties? How about the "In Cold Blood" murders of the Clutter family in 1959? The Boston Strangler in the early sixties? They are just a very tiny tip of the iceberg. There have always been murderers and child molesters and rapists and evil people in our society. We just hear about it more today because we have mass media broadcasting the news 24/7.
Halloween candy is no more dangerous today than it was fifty years ago. In fact, it is probably safer because of modern packaging and health codes.
People feel the need to x-ray candy, but do they ever find anything? If anything, the world is safer today than it was in the "Good Old Days."

Saturday 22 March

By Diane

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Saturday 22 March

By Ginny

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To Cheryl's comment - Why is trick or treating a "pagan" tradition? The last time I heard that word was in my history class when we were talking about the middle ages. Wow - deja vu.

Saturday 22 March

By Steve

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Wow.....all of this negative chatting over sugar candy.

Get over it and enjoy life.

Saturday 22 March

By ANN

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After you are done playing with the PEEPS,the proper way to eat the PEEPS is to let them sit on top of the refrigerator for 2 days until they are hard and stale! MMMMMmmmmGood !!

Saturday 22 March

By Debbi

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OMG it's PEEPS for Pete's sake!! Lighten up and just enjoy something funny without all the political & religious BS!!! AND BTW....loved the 'peep show' comment!! Thanks for a lighthearted giggle among all these picyune Peeps!!!

Saturday 22 March

By Karen bannick

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okay, im over 50 and i dont what all this is about. peeps are so cute, it was funny. thats all. just cute.

Saturday 22 March

By Mac

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At 70, I am older than Matt Severyn, Vickitot, and Gary. And here's my input: things were different 50 years ago. Not necessarily better, nor worse, just different. And then, as now, in good times and bad, one of the best ways to make it through the day was by having a sense of humor. The peeps show gave me a really good laugh, and that's helping me get through this day!

Saturday 22 March

By Jerry Spencer

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What fun! Peeps as a hot socio-political-religious topic! Who would have thought? Stephen King should do a horror Peeps novel. The article made me wonder about that group of college girls who claim they have the copyright on staging peeps shows. Anyway, interesting is the comment about Christian traditions coming from pagan traditions. Uhm yes, to be sure, they really all date back when the first pharaoh was deciding to kick some Egyptian peep butt, long and long before Rabbi Jesus arrived.

Monday 24 March

By MJ

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I HAVE to agree with "Matt"...using Peeps in the Last Supper is just plain WRONG. There is so little that we respect today...we MUST leave Easter alone when it comes down to replacing Jesus Christ and His desciples with peeps! He died for OUR SINS....we should NOT make a mockery of it and sin yet again by disrespecting this very Holy day. You want to make fun of the Easter bunny with peeps...go right ahead!

Sunday 23 March

By I Love Me

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Hey Anon-
Don't Just go talking CRAP about someone's religion like that- I believe you are WRONG about this and believe you are wrong for writing all of that stuff about Christianity- Easter and Christmas were first Christian Holidays- Jesus was a Christian- get your CRAP STRAIGHT!!!

Sunday 23 March

By Toni

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ehh!!! The indians are gonna live longer than anybody its true they dont know how to use but reuse they do

maracas of tree into spatula

Sunday 23 March

By Pam

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Abby:

FYI halal food is not the same as kosher

Sunday 23 March

By Ryan

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I think peeps should be eaten not played with, baybs play with their foor and i think its pithetic.

Sunday 23 March

By Mason younG

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Who would ever have thought this is how it would turn out, (big sigh)...I had such hope for the world, and it ends up being a bunch of consumers

Monday 24 March

By Gabby

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You ROCK Gina! Your comment is the best out of ALL of these! I mean, Come on, you really want me to believe that things were "respectful" back then? I don't think so!

Again, You ROCK Gina!!!

Are you all referring to the "50 years ago" when Blacks were denied employment, or worse, being lynched, gays where beaten to death, women weren't allowed to do certain jobs, people were imprisoned for "rumored" associations with communism, and the American-Japanese were unlawfully thrown into "internment" camps?