Peep This!

Follow your Peeps into war.

Hey, it's almost Easter! The most boring holiday negligent Christians ignore. There's, um, bonnets, poor quality chocolate, and kid-friendly egg hunts. Yawn. Wake me up when it's Presents O'Clock, m'kay?  We don't even get a day off. Oh, yeah, and then there's the ubiquitous Peeps. Those weird, staring, dispassionate marshmallow baby chickens with no mouths that no one really likes to eat. But you shovel them in your face anyway, because they're there and because they aren't even really food anyway. There's a grand total of 160 calories in five peeps. You can shove a whole box in your craw and lose weight doing it. *

There is such a crush of Peeps around Easter that people have had to find new, novel ways of using them. Aside from putting them in the microwave (they expand exponentially within seconds) and making them into dioramas, there have been documentaries made (one of them is screening in Sacramento today) and the official Peeps Web site will have you believe that Peeps are suitable for use in capuccino and creme brule. But I don't have to point you to all the Peeps paraphernalia scattered across the Web, because this guy has already done it. Just as the author warns you up front, there are 155 links in this post. So sit back, try to remember what this holiday is celebrating anyway (Jesus? A rabbit? Brunch?) and get lost in the miasma.

*Probably not true.