# Verily,I shall consume thee, PEEPS **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 15, 2001, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verily-i-shall-consume-thee-peeps/62018 "2001-04-15T01:58:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verily-i-shall-consume-thee-peeps/62018/21 "2001-04-15T05:49:06Z")
Then a war breaks out between the Peeps and the Circus Peanuts in the land of inedible treats. The Peeps are powerful in their holiday legions that have been spawned through mass manufacture, but the Circus Peanuts are older and more devious. The Peeps surround the Circus Peanuts and it looks like sucrose genocide is assured. At the last second, when death seems inevitable, an orangish-yellow rain\* falls upon the Peeps, destroying their hordes, leaving the Circus Peanuts victorious and happy. \*Circus Peanuts that have been regurgitated retain their conciousness and as they have been combined with stomach acid, work as sentient chemical warfare. Many people vomit up Circus Peanuts. Fear them. They might come for you next. ---
**Author:** ![tiggeril](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tiggeril/32/7234_2.png) [@tiggeril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiggeril)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verily-i-shall-consume-thee-peeps/62018/22 "2001-04-15T06:04:47Z")
You want Peeps? We’ve got Peeps. Just take a gander at the [Spiffled II check-in thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=66744). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verily-i-shall-consume-thee-peeps/62018/23 "2001-04-15T06:55:02Z")
::wonders why **Tequila Mockingbrid** hasn’t shown up yet:: ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verily-i-shall-consume-thee-peeps/62018/24 "2001-04-15T06:56:05Z")
**Tequila Mockingbird** , too ---
**Author:** ![blanx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f04885/32.png) [@blanx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blanx)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verily-i-shall-consume-thee-peeps/62018/25 "2001-04-15T15:04:45Z")
Last night at a birthday party for a friend I was presented with the unholy sight of Peeps of varying hues floating in a bowl of jello. God help me, I ate several. Nothing on earth is more vile than the grainy texture of a quasi-Peep sliding down your throat ensconced in a spoonful of jello. Also, fyi, do not put jellybeans in jello. EVER! ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verily-i-shall-consume-thee-peeps/62018/26 "2001-04-15T17:52:27Z")
a whole thread devoted to the consumtion of peeps, and not one post about the Microwave Torture? Odd. Stick Peep on a non-stick plate. If you don’t have one, put it on a paper plate that has been lined with saran wrap. Microwave for thirty seconds or so. The fun is in watching it, so be sure to get a seat right outside the microwave. The Peep will swell to about 6 times it’s original size, and then magically shrink down again. Mmmm…tomorrow they’ll be half off… ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verily-i-shall-consume-thee-peeps/62018/27 "2001-04-15T17:57:05Z")
:: falls into diabetic coma from reading this thread containing far too much sugar content **and** vile PEEPS refrences :: ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verily-i-shall-consume-thee-peeps/62018/28 "2001-04-15T18:53:52Z")
Heh. I laugh at you people, eating your puny Peeps and Bunnies. Behold as I consume [GIANT BUNNY.](http://www4.ncsu.edu/~embevera/Bunny.jpg) Yum. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verily-i-shall-consume-thee-peeps/62018/29 "2001-04-15T19:04:52Z")
AGH! The horror! ---
**Author:** ![Journeyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@Journeyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Journeyman)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verily-i-shall-consume-thee-peeps/62018/30 "2001-04-15T19:06:35Z")
_tosses a peep in the microwave_ Face the fury of directed microwave radiation! Swell, my pretty, until you burst, spraying forth carmelized marshmellow to all corners of the kitchen. My spatula awaits thee! ---
**Author:** ![IndignantSarcasm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/6a8cbe/32.png) [@IndignantSarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IndignantSarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verily-i-shall-consume-thee-peeps/62018/31 "2001-04-15T21:30:29Z")
I am the goddess of all PEEPS. I have been eating them since i can remember and there are some things I’ve learned: Once I sat a pink peep on my dresser and it sat there for a week, it got very hard(of course), BUT, a month later, it was SOFT AGAIN! of course not eddible (that’d be gross) But they change the longer they sit out. if i racall that peep sat in my room for 4 months, and when i threw it away it was soft. (oh the things i did when i was younger) another lesson in PEEPS: The taste of food coloring. The purple, pink, and blue ones are gross. unless you like that artificial nasty taste of food coloring. Thats probably why so many people dont like them. I only eat the YELLOW and the WHITE. The white obviously being the best. Man, i wish i had some PEEPS right now… ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verily-i-shall-consume-thee-peeps/62018/32 "2001-04-15T23:00:42Z")
I saw someone mentioning circus peanuts earlier. Dammit, I LOVE circus peanuts. I only have them a few times a year, but dammit they rock. I don’t like peeps, but the peanuts, lord I love them. I love buying them too, the people always look at me wierd, and nobody ever steals them. They are my own widdle candy. I wuv my peanuts yes I do. [Ren & Stimpy] R: Oh my beloved Circus Peanuts, how I love to lick your chewy dissolving center… HOW! HOW! HOWWW! And your oh-so-impenetrable stale outer covering! You’re not like the others! You like the same things that I do! Wax Paper! Boiled Football Leather! Dog Breath! We’re not hitchhiking anymore! WE’RE RIDING!! S: Stop it, you’re talking crazy talk! R: Oh no, I know what you want! You coveteth my circus peanuts! S: Come on now… R: No you don’t! You can’t take it from me now! I’ve had these circus peanuts since I was CHILD! People… always trying to take it from me… why won’t they leave us ALONE? S: Easy now… R: Back off, man! (grabs toothbrush) Don’t make me use this! One stop closer, I’m WARNING ya! Don’t make me use it! NOW you’ve done it. YOU FORCED ME TO USE IT! (horrible sounds as Ren brushes his teeth) [/Ren & Stimpy] MarxBoy ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verily-i-shall-consume-thee-peeps/62018/33 "2001-04-16T02:21:09Z")
I consumed an entire box of yellow Bunny Peeps from yesterday to today. The first six I ate fresh, and the others I put into the fridge until they were cold and somewhat chewy. They were delicious. Oddly, after finishing the last one I suddenly had thoughts of New Guinea, the Donner party, and those Andes plane crash survivors. ---
**Author:** ![Gazoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@Gazoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazoo)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verily-i-shall-consume-thee-peeps/62018/34 "2001-04-16T04:52:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SwimmingRiddles \* > \*\*a whole thread devoted to the consumtion of peeps, and not one post about the Microwave Torture? Odd. > > Stick Peep on a non-stick plate. If you don’t have one, put it on a paper plate that has been lined with saran wrap. > > Microwave for thirty seconds or so. The fun is in watching it, so be sure to get a seat right outside the microwave. The Peep will swell to about 6 times it’s original size, and then magically shrink down again. > > Mmmm…tomorrow they’ll be half off… \*\* Holy shit, I was laughing so hard while reading this I almost shit myself…then I went out and bought some Peeps and watched the microwave “Peep show.” Hee hee – Happy Easter to all, and thanks **swiddles**. BTW, **Circus Peanuts** are 10x better than Peeps. ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verily-i-shall-consume-thee-peeps/62018/35 "2001-04-16T17:49:19Z")
…I can bring myself to post in this thread. > [@](#): > > Ingestion of even small amounts may cause nausea, vomiting, circulatory collapse, tachypnea, paralysis, > convulsions, coma, greenish or smoky-colored urine, necrosis of mouth and G.I. tract, icterus, death from respiratory failure, sometimes from cardiac arrest… For the record, **cat** did not explode, go into a coma or any of the above things. He did, however, wake up at 7 later that morning talking in a rather lucid (read as: multisyllabic) and jittery fashion. His side of the conversation went something like this: HigoodmorningwowI’mlikereallyawakeandIcan’tbelievehowalertIamImeanIonlyhadfivehoursofsleepIsleptrealgoodandIdon’tthinkit’scozthesugaroryouknowbutI’mreallyawakerightnowhowareyouIatealotofpeepslastnightPEEPSbutIsleptrealgoodareyouawaketoo?!!! My side of the conversation consisted of me kissing his forehead and rolling farfar away. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verily-i-shall-consume-thee-peeps/62018/36 "2001-04-16T18:27:52Z")
I’m not much of a Peeper (I think you have to be raised Catholic?). But I did fall prey once again to my yearly Easter downfall: chocolate-covered coconut Easter eggs. You know, the ones with the inedible chalky flower on the top? “Coronary Occulsion in a Box?” Every goddam year I eat one of those things, in one sitting. Inedible flower and all. After two bites I think, “Oh god I am going to die.” And the next year I go out and eat another one . . . I have all the sales resistance of Lucy Ricardo in a hat shoppe. ---
**Author:** ![IndignantSarcasm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/6a8cbe/32.png) [@IndignantSarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IndignantSarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verily-i-shall-consume-thee-peeps/62018/37 "2001-04-16T22:44:47Z")
This is quite possibly the best day of the year for candy shoppers… I just picked up 6 packs of PEEPS!! for $3! and 2 4 packs of Cadbury Eggs! OH YEAH! talk about sugar encased in sugar… WOO! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verily-i-shall-consume-thee-peeps/62018.md?page=1)