Have you ever wanted to try sugar colored styrofoam? Well now you can and you have been able to since 1953. Walking down the one too many isles of artificial sugar filled candy lining the shelves along with plastic eggs during the month of April a little pack of candy chicks or bunnies may catch your eye. Personally I think the chicks are cuter.
Peeps are in the simplest term, marshmallows. Covered in fine sugar and very brightly colored. Stereotypically they are usually yellow, blue, pink, or purple.
All these colors taste the same, although I’m not sure what I expected. Maybe it was the bright different colors that threw me off making me expect to bite into some wonderfully flavored thing but unfortunately no.
Disappointingly, they have no flavor at all and maybe it is an unpopular opinion, or maybe not but I absolutely hate Peeps. My mind does think of them rather quickly when I think of Easter but that is where it ends. I have no desire to go run to the nearest store and pick myself up a pack of the little animal shaped marshmallows.
I did however manage to bring myself to buy a few to try. On the first bite the texture is what throws me off the most. The slightly crunchy outside does not seem to fit with the strangely smooth inside.
Strangely smooth because I personally do not like normal marshmallows, however I have eaten a few in the past and they are definitely not the consistency of a normal marshmallow. I feel that the best way to describe it is too airy on the inside.
After getting over the initial first bite and continuing to chew it only gets worse. Again the best way to describe chewing a peep is that it gets weirdly foamy after a few bites. Not in the good way that there is foam on top of coffee or hot chocolate though but the bad way as if you were brushing your teeth.
Fortunately hating Peeps does not seem to be a very controversial opinion, probably because they are just so awful.
“I feel very similar about peeps, as to how I feel about daylight saving time,” said junior Adrie Starkenburg. “I think it’s unnecessary and a really easy issue for the Senate to solve.”
If there was ever a question on what to put in a child’s Easter basket I would personally say to skip out on the colorful animal shaped marshmallows known as Peeps.
