# Peeps...Love em or hate em? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 27, 2002, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeps-love-em-or-hate-em/100418 "2002-03-27T18:32:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeps-love-em-or-hate-em/100418/21 "2002-03-27T19:19:38Z")
If I’m going to indulge in something sweet for Easter, rest assured it will be a Fannie Mae egg or something similar, definitely not Peeps. :having flashbacks to Spiffled: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hedda\_Rosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hedda_rosa/32/1204_2.png) [@Hedda\_Rosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hedda_Rosa)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeps-love-em-or-hate-em/100418/22 "2002-03-27T19:26:13Z")
Love love love 'em. Every year I get excited when Easter-time comes around so I can buy a box of peeps and eat the whole thing in one sitting. Then I feel sick and ashamed until Easter rolls around the next time and the evil cycle starts again. 😃 Twiddle ---
**Author:** ![Zappo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b3f665/32.png) [@Zappo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zappo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeps-love-em-or-hate-em/100418/23 "2002-03-27T19:33:35Z")
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. . .Peeps. I hoard 'em and manage to save a few till a good while after Easter, when they’re stale enough to be really good. Yum! Zap! ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeps-love-em-or-hate-em/100418/24 "2002-03-27T19:39:08Z")
I can’t stand marshmallows in anything but Lucky Charms, so I loath Peeps. Since my mom is a firm believer in keeping up tradition, I still get them every year. Since I can’t stop the ritual Giving of the Peeps, I’ve developed the ritual of Asking Everyone on the Planet if They Want Peeps, and when that fails, the ritual Throwing Away of the Peeps. ---
**Author:** ![GrandfatherTrout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@GrandfatherTrout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandfatherTrout)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeps-love-em-or-hate-em/100418/25 "2002-03-27T19:44:54Z")
One of my dearest friends adores peeps but will only eat them when they’re really really stale. She buys them on the first day they become available for Easter-candy season, opens the package(s), and puts them in a cupboard. 'Round about Easter they are ready to eat. Eegah. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeps-love-em-or-hate-em/100418/26 "2002-03-27T19:48:00Z")
Eating 'em as we speak. These are about a week stale–perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeps-love-em-or-hate-em/100418/27 "2002-03-27T19:54:03Z")
Without Peeps, you can’t make a decent Killer Shrew. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeps-love-em-or-hate-em/100418/28 "2002-03-27T19:59:54Z")
Being a Nice Jewish Girl, I have never eaten a Peep. But I do have a good Peep story from my Catholic friend Michael: He and his mother were walking through Times Square about 35 years ago, when Michael was about five. They passed the late, great porn theater Peep Land, causing little Michael to shriek wildly, “LOOK, MOM—PEEP LAND! LET’S GO IN AN’ GET SOME PEEPS!” Much to the amusementy of the passersby. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeps-love-em-or-hate-em/100418/29 "2002-03-27T20:22:37Z")
[Dr. Fun](http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/) does a week of peeps cartoons each year before Easter. I usually find them dull (not being a “peep person”) but [this one](http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200203/df20020327.jpg) is great. ---
**Author:** ![meezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@meezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meezer)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeps-love-em-or-hate-em/100418/30 "2002-03-27T20:31:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sidle \* > \*\*😃 Heh heh > > meezer-how do you like them? \*\* DUH! I’m making a good first impression, aren’t I? Sorry about the double post. I didn’t think the first one “took.” ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeps-love-em-or-hate-em/100418/31 "2002-03-27T21:59:34Z")
Okay, **Eve** , that was really funny. I’ve barely recovered from the dead junkie on the toilet in the other thread, and then I read this. I am totally so glad you’re back! ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeps-love-em-or-hate-em/100418/32 "2002-03-27T22:15:21Z")
errrrrrrrr…ummmmmmmm…ahem…\ Hi, my name is Swampbear and I am a peepaholic. Yes \ that’s right. A peepaholic. For about six weeks every year I am in a sugar induced comatose yet euphoric state of being. I eat peeps by the boatload. I scour the town, nay, even surrounding towns, for peeps. I stalk the stockboy at Walmart as he puts em on the shelf. I snatch the last package out of the cheruby hands of toddlers in stores. I hide stashes all over my house and office. Just one…yeah just one…that’s all I’ll eat. I’ve said that so many times. \ I wake up all hours of the night searching for peeps…I go out dressed in only my boxers and tshirt to hunt em down at Walmart, Publix, Winn-Dixie and Bruno’s. Then I sit in my truck, in the parking lot, laughing insanely while I down yet another case or two of peeps. \ I can’t help myself. Peeps are what I live for. Then…Easter is over. No more peeps. I start having withdrawals…ok…so it’s really just coming down from all that sugar…I sit for hours staring into space saying…peeps…where are the peeps? Then partner hands me a jar of marshmallow fluff and says here eat this and I get all better. The end. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeps-love-em-or-hate-em/100418/33 "2002-03-27T22:20:12Z")
Where’s **Persephone**? She’s the official Slayer of Peeps[sup]TM[/sup], ya know. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeps-love-em-or-hate-em/100418/34 "2002-03-27T22:24:22Z")
Mmmmmmm, peepalicious… (drools) ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeps-love-em-or-hate-em/100418/35 "2002-03-27T22:28:32Z")
All Peeps must DIE! Where’s that Smashie guy when you need him? ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeps-love-em-or-hate-em/100418/36 "2002-03-27T22:38:37Z")
My first thought on entering this thread was the [Peeps O’ Kenyon](http://www.hailotis.com/peeps/) , a college group my boyfriend belongs to. I was thinking, “Some of them are kind of asses, but I don’t hate them…” But marshmallow peeps? Blargh. My son begs for them every year, then eats exactly one. ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeps-love-em-or-hate-em/100418/37 "2002-03-27T23:15:18Z")
Mmmmph… MMMmmmmph… MMmmmmmARGH Oh, there we go… _Ahem_ I like Peeps. I really do. It’s just that they stick in your mouth… One of their more loveable traits 😉 Now if you’ll excuse me… _Crams a Peep into mouth_ Mmmmmmmph… Mmmmmmmmmph… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeps-love-em-or-hate-em/100418/38 "2002-03-27T23:18:03Z")
[comic book guy] “_Ah, if only real chicks would go down this easy_” [comic book guy] 😃 _-me_ ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeps-love-em-or-hate-em/100418/39 "2002-03-27T23:30:45Z")
Oh, God, **elf** , I saw that episode. I almost crapped my pants when I heard that line!!! Beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![TruePisces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/truepisces/32/13628_2.png) [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeps-love-em-or-hate-em/100418/40 "2002-03-27T23:35:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pezpunk \* > \*\*I for one NEVER eat marshmallows or any [gelatin](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_103.html) products. > > So peeps…YUCK! \*\* stalk stalk stalk stalk stalk I haven’t had peeps in a long time. I usually just buy them for my best friend every year 'cause she used to have an addiction to them. I think I’ve cured her of that, but I buy them anyway, just to make her laugh. (I gave them to her the day before her wedding last weekend) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeps-love-em-or-hate-em/100418.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeps-love-em-or-hate-em/100418.md?page=3)