<p>Time for the annual peeps contest! You might have to register at the site, but here is the line up of this year’s Peeps dioramas. There are so many cute ones I don’t know which to vote for :)</p>
<p>[Peeps</a> Show III - washingtonpost.com](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2009/04/10/GA2009041001969.html?sid=ST2009041001087#]Peeps”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2009/04/10/GA2009041001969.html?sid=ST2009041001087#)</p>
<p>Both my wife and daughter adore peeps, and fight over the little buggers. </p>
<p>I find my self making little peeping voices as they sit and devour them. Comments like “Me first”, or “Eat me”. The females give me the evil eye and the “STOP! I CAN’T EAT THEM IF THEY TALK BACK” line.</p>
<p>I do remind them that if they bit the head off first, they’d no longer have vocal ability. </p>
<p>I admit they are cute, but personally it’s far too much of a sugar rush for me.</p>
<p>In our house there is only one accepted way of consuming PEEPS. One week before Easter Sunday, the PEEPS celophane must be removed and the aforementioned PEEPS should be left in the open air. This gives them the consistency only a true PEEPS aficionado appreciates. Vive le PEEP!
This year I am fashioning a PEEPS cocktail. One part Vodka, a splash of lime and simple syrup, a dash of pink food colouring. Shaken(not stirred) serve straight up with a stale PEEP perched on the side of the glass.</p>
<p>Ah, Peeps!
and musicamusica is a genius! After all those years of waiting and waiting for the Peeps in my Easter basket to get stale…</p>
<p>Peeps can’t be bunnies. Nope.</p>
<p>H came home last week with bunnie PEEPS. I gave him the whithering “you ruined Easter” look. Dont send a Dad to do a Moms job.</p>
<p>Violadad you are a riot! How funny.</p>
<p>A peeps cocktail! What an utterly brilliant idea.</p>
<p>Someone should take a peep on a college tour and photograph it at as many colleges as possible. It could be art!</p>
<p>Some of those dioramas are hysterical. Thanks for sharing.</p>
<p>zoosermom - that’s a great idea - could enter into the next contest somehow I’m sure.</p>
<p>D2 spent spring break making a Peep diorama for our local paper’s contest. Persephone in the Underworld… Didn’t win, but it kept her busy for almost a week for $10 worth of Peeps! Can’t get her to throw it away now, though, and I’m afraid ants will find it soon.</p>
<p>[TwinCities.com</a> | Contests](<a href=“http://twincities.upickem.net/engine/Details.aspx?PageType=APPROVED&ContestID=5748&SubmissionID=684337&IncrementNumber=1#SubmissionDisplay]TwinCities.com”>http://twincities.upickem.net/engine/Details.aspx?PageType=APPROVED&ContestID=5748&SubmissionID=684337&IncrementNumber=1#SubmissionDisplay)</p>
<p>musicamusica, I also remove the cellophane (actually punch holes into it with a knife)…then stick them in the freezer. A week unwrapped, frozen…wow!</p>
<p>If you’re not patient, another fun way to eat them—>put them in the microwave and watch them grow and grow! I’ve seen them get the size of a small balloon, never had one explode. Then eat it fast before it shrinks.</p>
<p>The chocolate dipped ones are my favorites.</p>
<p>Intparent–Peepsephone didnt win??? What a world.</p>
<p>Microwaved peeps. You may have changed Easter FOREVER.</p>
<p>Thank you, Singersmom!
The peep Aretha Franklin just cracked me up! Loved the Peep Edward Hopper.</p>
<p>The chocolate dipped ones… THEY HAVE CHOCOLATE DIPPED PEEPS?</p>
<p>Musicamusica, Peepsephone and Sysipeep didn’t even place… But since we couldn’t afford a vacation over spring break this year, I can’t complain because it provided a week of cheap entertainment (and that was a win as far as I am concerned)! It is still a little gritty underfoot in our kitchen from Peep sugar, though.</p>
<p>I just checked out my second favorite PEEP diorama.
“No Country for Old Peeps”
I cant stop laughing.</p>
<p>I’m looking forward to the parade of the winners of the annual Seattle Times’ Peeps contest. This year’s theme was newsworthy people and events. Here are the submitted entries (including several Octopeeps, Peep Cell Research, Michael Peeps and His Eight Medals, and, of course, 155 Peep-le Safe on the Hudson :)):</p>
<p>[Peeps</a> Parade | Seattle Times Newspaper](<a href=“http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/reader_feedback/public/display.php?thread=88341]Peeps”>http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/reader_feedback/public/display.php?thread=88341)</p>
<p>And here is my favorite - Peepbiotics!</p>
<p>[Peeps</a> Parade | Peepbiotics](<a href=“http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/reader_feedback/public/display.php?thread=88341&offset=60]Peeps”>http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/reader_feedback/public/display.php?thread=88341&offset=60)</p>
<p>And here is Bernie Peepoff who feathered his own nest while stealing other peeps’ nest eggs:
[Peeps</a> Parade | Bernie Peepoff](<a href=“http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/reader_feedback/public/display.php?thread=88341&offset=122]Peeps”>http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/reader_feedback/public/display.php?thread=88341&offset=122)</p>
<p>Singersmom-
That link is hysterical!! Entry #9, the inauguration, complete with a peeps Aretha wearing a peeps hat, made me spray my computer screen!! LOL!!!</p>