Fresh or Stale another Question of the ages?

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Ok, after my angle vs straight cut, I found another one. My wife and I differ on this issue. With Valentine and Easter comming stores are filled with peeps. You know those colorfull marhsmellows cover with sugar. Enough to keep a 5year old going for hours. For more peeps info check out the FAQ http://geekbabe.com/peeps/peepfaq.html

Now the issue. Peeps come out of the box soft and mushy. By breaking the plastic seal you can let them dry out they become a bit harder.

How do you like your peeps. Fresh and gooey or Day old with a nice crunchy feel?

-- Gary in Ohio (gws@columbus.rr.com), February 11, 2002

Answers

Definitely stale!

How did the bread one work out Gary???

-- Melissa in SE Ohio (me@home.net), February 11, 2002.


Ick, I don't like my peeps at all, except to look at. I even bought them for the boys and they wouldn't eat them (still haven't figured that one out - they love marshmallows!)

-- Christine in OK (cljford@mmcable.com), February 11, 2002.

Stale!

-- Cindy (SE. IN) (atilrthehony@hotmail.com), February 11, 2002.

They are great to look at----I'll eat almost anything made out of sugar-----but I can't stand peeps!!!!!

-- Sonda in Ks. (sgbruce@birch.net), February 11, 2002.

They had this discussion on Channel 8 new in Indpls. last year. The morning anchorman really likes them. Most people like them stale.

-- Cindy (SE. IN) (atilrthehony@hotmail.com), February 11, 2002.


Hey Gary, have you experimented the expandability of fresh versus stale peeps when exposed in the microwave? My mom had 3 year old peeps and they don't expand at all!

We had peeps a few years ago. I told my kids they were just pretty decorations and we put them in cute little nests. The looks on their faces was priceless when several days later, I bit the head off one. That is the only time I can recall (almost) eating one.

-- Laura (Ladybugwrangler@hotmail.com), February 11, 2002.


If you really want a laugh, and I do mean a ROFLOL type of laugh, check out the research done on peeps at http://www.learnlink.emory.edu/peep/

It is a hoot!!!

-- Marci (Marci@amazingrazefarm.com), February 12, 2002.


Thanks Marci for the link! Too funny! BTW, my children won't touch peeps, won't even let me put them in their hot cocoa. Must be the crunch.

-- Jean (schiszik@tbcnet.com), February 12, 2002.

This is hilarious. I've been a closet lover of very stale peeps. I would have never dreamed it was so popular. I may have a huge coming out party. I thought I'd died and gone to peep heaven when they started making them for all occasions and I didnt have to store enough for a year. Blessings Peggy

-- peggy (peggyan2@msn.com), February 12, 2002.

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