Peeps and Families:
It's just amazing how peeps can bring folks together. Some of these will make you go 'awwwww...', too.
FIRST PRIZE
Su_Ferg:
It was early Easter Sunday morning after making sacrifices for weeks during lent, my brother and sister were eager to get the Sunday paper route finished and return home to bathe and enjoy all ot the sights and sounds or Easter 1950. Brother Bill lead the way putting away the wagon and his bike while Carolyn was following right behind as she often was. At 14 Bill was a little awkward about the conversation which was about to take place. Hey Sis what's you favorite easter bunny candy? Carolyn thought a minute and replied. "Those little peeps, but I like them when they get a little hard on the outside." She had stopped believing in the easter bunny and was surprised to find her older brother still did. This conversation continued as they put all of the paper route stuff away and raced each other to the house each pretending for the other so as not to spoil the image if the easter bunny.
Tho I was fast asleep, I cannot see a peep without recalling those times faraway and long ago when peeps were only yellow and had chocolate eyes, and got hard in a day.
HONORABLE MENTIONS
LIFROG:
My story was only award winning to the lucky person who gave me their PEEPS. Every Easter i recieved a great BIG Easter basket with a 18"pure chocolate rabbit,jelly beans,chocolate carmel easter filled eggs. I think you get the picture. Well one year i gave my basket to my brother in exchange for his black jelly beans and all of his chicken and rabbit peeps. My mother was livid over this. The following year it was tme to trade off. Mom was prepared. She bought a bag of black jelly beans and eight boxes of PEEPS. Now everybody knew i loved black jelly beans and PEEPS. Let the bidding begin. As always my brother came up with the black jelly beans and PEEPS, just as i was ready to give him my basket, mom said "wait i can beat his offer" and brought out the bag of black jelly beans and eight boxes of PEEPS.
I am 43 years old, my brother passed away,and to this day my neices and nephews keep tradition going by trading me their black jelly beans and PEEPS for my easter basket. I LOVE PEEPS.
PS. Put them in the freezer, they taste great when they are frozen. Happy Easter!!! love a silly Wabbit named Terri PSS-Halloween the mission is to get "Good-N-Plentys for Aunt T (thats me)
ktdearest:
Travis Jefferson Abrams was 2 years old when he tasted his first Peep. He wanted it so badly and he cried until his mother (a Peep addict) agreed to give him one. He place it in his mouth. He began to gag and he had a look of horror on his face. And he spit it out.
We were dismayed. No one in our family had ever rejected a Peep. Not ever. Well, Travis is 3 years old and today, he again asked for a Peep. We waited for a repeat performance. BUT no!!! He ate it and he ate another one and another one.
Thank goodness, he is one of us!!!
DenRowe:
Every year I go out and buy a package of each kind and color of peeps and then invite the Grandkids over. We then name each of the peeps and play a little "oh...NO Mr. Bill" type skit before popping them one at a time into the microwave. The grandchildren (and I) love to watch the ducks or rabbits grow huge before exploding into grotesque globs with eyes!
Although I am a hit with the Grandkids, I am not too popular with their Grandma during the Easter Season...she thinks there is something dark and sadistic in the fun we have with peeps. I think she just reads too much into the wierd fun that binds Grandpas and grandchildren!
We (the grandkids and I) have found that if we can get Grandma to actually eat a few uncooked peeps (something we would never do), then the sugar rush gets her more involved in the fun!
It also helps if we don't forget to clean the microvave afterwards!
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