Peeps!

Not having gone into a mainstream grocery in some time, I'd forgotten that it is almost Peep season. I love these little marshmallow chickens! Not so much as food (how many sugary marshmallows can one person eat, really?) but as weird little fun things that just happen to be food. I'm a purist -- I only like the chicks, and yellow ones at that.

Here are some links to recent Peep-a-tude:

Crooked Timber talks about Peeps (c/o Amanda at Household Opera).

The classics "Peep Research: A Study of Small Fluffy Creatures and Library Research" and "Peep Research." (The latter has lots of links, including to other sites dealing with odd foods like the Spam Haiku site.)

The mothership.

Go, Peeps!

Comments

[yami]

Hey wait a minute - Peeps aren't food! Is this an early April Fools?

[Rana]

No, I love to BITE THEIR LITTLE HEADS OFF! Bwaah hah hah hah!

Ahem. Yes, of course they are food. Only tasty in small quantities, but edible nonetheless. :)

[Ali]

The fact that the EYES are indestructible even in phenol suggests they aren't digestible either, and therefore fall in the same category as chlorophyll: Peeps are FIBER!