# What's your view on marshmellow peeps?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 10, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204 "2011-03-10T18:42:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/1 "2011-03-10T18:42:14Z")
Mentioned in the Easter candy thread.
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/2 "2011-03-10T18:51:46Z")
Hardened semen from Satan. I suppose some people are into that kind of thing, but no _normal_ human being would ever even hold one. You know, because they’re made with Satan’s semen.
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### Author:  [@Bartman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bartman)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/3 "2011-03-10T18:53:42Z")
Way too few of options. You need a “Hate the vile things… but better fresh than stale” for one. So I had to just go with “Hate them.”
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### Author:  [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/4 "2011-03-10T18:54:35Z")
Man, Satan’s semen is tasty. Don’t be so square.
I don’t \*want \*to love peeps, but I do. I really really do. Probably has to do with the Satan thing Justin mentioned.
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/5 "2011-03-10T19:13:41Z")
Why don’t you have a ‘meh’ option?
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/6 "2011-03-10T19:18:00Z")
No “taste gross but fun to microwave” option?
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### Author:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2011, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/7 "2011-03-10T20:12:25Z")
I also would like to have had a “meh” or “take it or leave it” option.
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/8 "2011-03-10T20:31:52Z")
Is it that time of the year already? Commendations on the new options though, I never really thought about it so I chose the third option.
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### Author:  [@Chopper9760](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chopper9760)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/9 "2011-03-10T20:40:18Z")
They are vile tasting but SO much fun to enlarge in the microwave.
My coworker used a vacuum food sucker to shrink/flatten some peeps, we kept them in a jar for years - fetal peeps.
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### Author:  [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/10 "2011-03-10T20:44:10Z")
I get a sugar headache just thinking about Peeps, otherwise meh.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/11 "2011-03-10T20:47:15Z")
They must be wiped from the face of the earth - by ingesting mass quantities of them!
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### Author:  [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/12 "2011-03-10T21:07:15Z")
I really, really want to see an episode of Iron Chef America with Peeps as the secret ingredient. If that ever happens, my brain asplode.
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### Author:  [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2011, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/13 "2011-03-10T21:24:48Z")
Love 'em fresh!
A couple of years ago I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, and had to stop eating Peeps. There are many sweet things that I have continued to eat from time to time, but I just couldn’t ever justify a Peep: they’re, like, 100% sugar. That first Peeps-less Easter was very sad. ☹
But then just the other week I discovered _sugar-free Peeps_!! 🙂 They don’t taste _exactly_ like the real thing, but they’re close enough! March is once again a happy month for me!
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### Author:  [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2011, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/14 "2011-03-10T21:31:01Z")
The other day I saw milk-chocolate-covered Peeps at a store. Each individual Peep was seated in a kind of chocolate base. _There’s_ a sugar rush for you.
And I love Peeps. I love anything marshmallow-y.
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### Author:  [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/15 "2011-03-10T21:33:22Z")
Peeps are one drug I can easily say no to.
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### Author:  [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2011, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/16 "2011-03-10T21:59:33Z")
_You’ve gotta tell them! Soylent Green is Peeps! We’ve gotta stop them somehow!_
Charlton Heston knew the danger.
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### Author:  [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2011, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/17 "2011-03-10T22:02:45Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#):
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> Hardened semen from Satan. I suppose some people are into that kind of thing, but no _normal_ human being would ever even hold one. You know, because they’re made with Satan’s semen.
That would be mayonnaise.
Peeps are angel poop.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2011, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/18 "2011-03-10T22:04:04Z")
I wouldn’t willingly eat one, but they make great decorations.
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### Author:  [@phantom\_lamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phantom_lamb)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/19 "2011-03-10T22:06:56Z")
Sorry guys, peeps are nasty.
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### Author:  [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/20 "2011-03-10T22:15:53Z")
Where’s the “Peeps are NOT FOOD, they are for microwave jousting” option?
I like 'em, I’d just never put one in my mouth, and don’t understand why people think they’re edible, when obviously they’re cool torturable one-shot microwave toys. We don’t have enough microwave toys, really, so they’re filling an important ecological niche.
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