"Elvis Peepsley," an entry in this year's Washington Post peeps diorama contest. Copyright washingtonpost.com. Go online to see all entries and the winner on Easter Sunday.What would Easter be without Peeps?
Our brother Don likes to open his and let them get as hard as brickbats before he eats them. I once found Peeps that were at least two years old in Beth's drawer, and they were still edible. It's hard to think of them as "food," so try thinking of them as "art." The Washington Post has challenged readers to create dioramas for its annual contest. They're wonderful and silly, and I love to imagine grown-ups laboring over their Peeps dioramas for weeks on end, savoring victory and their ten minutes of fame.
I can't remember a time that my Easter basket didn't have Peeps in it. All of those delicious artificial colors and flavors and preservatives just waiting to be eaten! You can have your bonnets, your chocolate bunnies, your hams and your Easter lillies, but me, I'll take my Peeps!
Wouldn't it be fun to create a diorama of a Simpkins-Shafer family reunion, using only Peeps? Maybe next year.
9 comments:
Leave Lib and me out of the project because we would eat them all before we could finish it, preferring, of course that they were at least 2 weeks opened and stale. :) NOW I know why I'm homesick down here. No PEEPS in sight!! =0 Save me some! The older the better!
I just choked down 3 horrible "soft" peeps tonight! Too new, so the other box will have to wait till 4th of July, I guess.
These 'peeps' go way back! As the myth goes, Howard Carter found a package of PEEPS in his archaeological dig into King Tut's Tomb....Ripley!
What a strange coincidence that the winner of this year's Peeps contest is a diorama of King Tut's tomb! Don't believe me? Check it out on washingtonpost.com.
There were NOT Peeps in King Tut's Tomb! Stop that!! ;) (But think how really good and CHEWY they would've been! Yum!!)
I checked out the post, and there they were-peeps in Tut's Tomb! I was absolutely blown away!!!
Being from Missouri, I need DOCUMENTATION on that, Anonymous! ;)
He's right, Loie. The winning entry this year was a diorama of peeps in King Tut's tomb! Coincidence?
Once and for all, my nannygoatsister, Peeps were not buried in King Tut's tomb in 1323 B.C. ;) The Blog Queen is clearing up this misunderstanding and has spoken. ;)
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