# What's your view on marshmellow peeps? **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/21 "2011-03-11T02:03:30Z")
I don’t like marshmallows much. And I don’t like the gritty sugar that peeeps marshmallows are covered in. On the other hand, I do kind of like toasted (read: burnt) marshmallows over a campfire and I love s’mores. Can you roast peeps over a campfire? Can you make them into s’mores? I might like them that way. I imagine the sugar coating might be interesting flambed that way, probably make pretty sparks, and get some crazy caramelization- might make for a crispy crust around the marshmallow, sort of like the hard crack of creme brulee. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/22 "2011-03-11T02:25:47Z")
Can you believe that I’ve never had a Peep? They just look so disgusting to me, I’ve never gathered the courage to even try one. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/23 "2011-03-11T02:26:31Z")
Peeps are of the devil, but funny photos of Peeps are good. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/24 "2011-03-11T02:37:52Z")
> [@dangermom](#): > > Peeps are of the devil, but funny photos of Peeps are good. [ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE!!](http://www.politedissent.com/?s=peeps) I don’t like marshmallows much, therefore I don’t like peeps. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/25 "2011-03-11T02:40:23Z")
[This](http://www.flickr.com/photos/buckofive/2358316450/) is the only kind of peeps I like. The rest can go in the microwave. ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/26 "2011-03-11T03:30:42Z")
They are naaaasty. I don’t know how anyone could eat them. I used to like a lot of candy and eat tons, but they always tasted like crap to me. ---
**Author:** ![kapri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/27 "2011-03-11T03:43:40Z")
I hate to **eat** them. I like to write stories about them, though. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/28 "2011-03-11T04:42:29Z")
I don’t understand how these things have a market. Simply awful. They’re about at the level of that generic “peanut-butter toffee” candy you get at Halloween from the cheapskates on your block. You know, the candies in the black and orange wrappers that would permanently glue themselves to your molars when you tried to chew them? ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/29 "2011-03-11T05:27:32Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > I don’t like marshmallows much. And I don’t like the gritty sugar that peeeps marshmallows are covered in. On the other hand, I do kind of like toasted (read: burnt) marshmallows over a campfire and I love s’mores. Can you roast peeps over a campfire? Can you make them into s’mores? I might like them that way. I imagine the sugar coating might be interesting flambed that way, probably make pretty sparks, and get some crazy caramelization- might make for a crispy crust around the marshmallow, sort of like the hard crack of creme brulee. I’m okay with Peeps even though it’s not my favorite Easter candy. However, they do make excellent s’mores for the reasons you stated. [Here’s a recipe.](http://curiousdomestic.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/smores-peeps-smeeps/) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/30 "2011-03-11T05:55:03Z")
> [@kapri](#): > > I hate to **eat** them. I like to write stories about them, though. What kind of stories?? I’m thinking of making and entering a Peep diorama in the annual newspaper contest. (First prize: A box of Peeps. Second prize: Two boxes of Peeps. :p) . I’ve been toying with recreating the cast of Lost. Or Lady Gaga, or maybe Pink doing her Cirque de Soleil number… ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/31 "2011-03-11T06:04:59Z")
You need a “I have no idea what they are because I live in a different country” option. I imagine they have a local equivalent, but I don’t know what those would be. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/32 "2011-03-11T06:07:31Z")
Abomination in the eyes of the Lord. If you want to go Marxist, capitalist decadence. But I’m intrigued by the idea of writing stories–I write stories and poems about terrorists and sinkholes so peeps would make the stories even scarier. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/33 "2011-03-11T06:14:30Z")
Okay, @#$% you, within 5 minutes of reading this thread I came up with a story about a terrorist, a sinkhole, and a peep. I need to start taking my meds again. ---
**Author:** ![Heyoka13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Heyoka13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heyoka13)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/34 "2011-03-11T06:19:13Z")
I have never, in my entire life (I’m over 50), eaten a Peep. I have eaten Circus Peanuts without gagging, however. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/35 "2011-03-11T15:13:52Z")
1. Buy box of peeps. 2. Bring home 3. Remove plastic wrap 4. Wait three days 5. Enjoy ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/36 "2011-03-11T15:28:50Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Why don’t you have a ‘meh’ option? > [@Markxxx](#): > > I also would like to have had a “meh” or “take it or leave it” option. > [@shiftless](#): > > I get a sugar headache just thinking about Peeps, otherwise meh. I thought about a ‘meh’ option, but I have never in my life met anyone who didn’t aboslutely love or loathe peeps. It seems to be an all-or-nothing type of food. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/37 "2011-03-11T15:37:39Z")
I’m not a marshmallow fan, but I don’t hate them. Another vote for “meh”. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/38 "2011-03-11T15:49:53Z")
I don’t hate them but had to pick that because I don’t like them much. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/39 "2011-03-11T16:46:20Z")
I’d go with “Meh.” I have no preference between fresh or stale. Circus peanuts, though - yum. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204/40 "2011-03-11T17:02:41Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > 1. Buy box of peeps. > 2. Bring home > 3. Remove plastic wrap > 4. Wait three days > 5. Enjoy Do you greet them every night for those three days with “Good night, Peeps. Good work. Sleep well. I’ll most likely kill you in the morning.”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-view-on-marshmellow-peeps/574204.md?page=3)