Peep follow up

After yesterday's post, I found myself intrigued by the Peeps company.  I went to the Peeps web site, which was not as fancy as I thought it would be - cheesy music and somewhat simple.  But who am I to judge, I just have a blog. Anyway, I wanted to share the two things I found most interesting.

1) A recipe for "Peeps blue raspberry sparkle"

First of all, the idea of Peeps on or in food is really vile.  Actually, Peeps hardly seem like food.  If you looked at the recipe, you've seen that the it calls for raspberry flavored carbonated water.  The chemistry of jello and carbonated beverage creating the "sparkle" look is a mind blower.

2) Peeps flowerpot topiary

I don't know about you, but this doesn't look that appetizing.  It doesn't really look that good visually either.

"Peeptastic"

Denver's only major newspaper, the Denver Post, held its first annual "Peeps Diorama Contest."  I may be wrong here but I'm thinking it's possible they are getting money or some kind of incentive from the Peeps company.  That's not important.  What is important is that the Peeps contest had A LOT of entries.  What I went ahead and did for you was peruse all 180+ entries and pull out some representative samples.  Oh, let me tell you right now that I had no idea this contest was going on.  Otherwise I would have had a peep in the race, as it were.

"Cute" 
As you might imagine, there were many entries from the 11 and under crowd (likely with parental help). Two examples:

This one falls in the cute category but it's special because it's transit!

"Peepatar" - there were several of these but not as many as the "lonely peeps club band" themed.

Witty, eh?

Uncertain

Sure, I get it, they are Peep musicians but...?

Are they supposed to be in the nest and the 2-D mother Peep is drawn on the wall??

ADULT

These were very amusing to me.

Weird

Now there were some that I was surprised to find.  I'll let them speak for themselves. Brace yourselves - you may not want to look at some of these...

"Peepzilla" - notice the little corpses

It took me a second to figure out what was happening. The sun can be harsher to some more than others, and, in this case, I don't mean just red heads!

um.

"The Peeps are coming" and they are pissed apparently.

This one was untitled but we can go ahead and call it "Peep Chainsaw Massacre"