OAEPBBR: Obligatory Annual Easter Peeps Boing Boing Post
* Above, a short film by 16-year old Boing Boing pal Charis Tobias, and her cool mom, Marylew.
* Here is the Washington Post's second annual Peep Diorama contest. (Thanks, Jean)
* Jason Day says, "My wife made a Buffy-themed diorama ("Bunny the Vampire Slayer") for the Chicago Tribune's Peeps diorama contest (craftzine blogged about the contest here). She didn't finish by the deadline, but it turned out really well, and just in time for Easter."
* "Fear of Flight," a stop-motion short in which an Easter peep meets an untimely demise. (thanks, Billy)
* Candyblogger Cybele points us to some Peeps as Maori statues on Easter Island. "Bunny shaped Cocoa Peeps, to be exact," she explains, "hewn from pure sugar with a touch of gelatin."
* Reader Brian H. would like all peep-lovers in Boingdom to know about "two dioramas that were rejected from The Chicago Tribune's Peeps contest. One revolves around a black metal band playing a high school and the dire consequences therein, and the other is a simple tribute to an old Edward Gorey book."
* This week's edition of Web Zen, which is regularly re-blogged here on Boing Boing, is all about peeps, cadbury bunnies, and other anthropomorphic cavity inducers.
* And Sarah O'Sullivan says,
Last year BoingBoing featured my husband Dan Paddock's and my entry into our local newspaper's Easter marshmallow peeps diorama contest (York Daily Record, York, PA.) Our diorama, "We Come In Peeps," won second place. We thought you might like to see this year's entry, "Peepzilla, King of All Marshmallows." And no, I don't know which marshmallow bunny is Raymond Burr.
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Am I missing something? "Peepzilla, King of All Marshmallows" doesn't seem to contain any...you know, Peeps.
I concur with iWood. I have been annoying my friends with messy, peep-related pranks for two decades. Maybe I'm just ultra-orthodox, but a bunneh is not a peep.
A little clarification, the Maori only live on New Zealand. The people on Easter Island are a completely different culture. Yay for pickiness of the day!
The Peepzilla marshmallow blobs are Peeps(TM), alright, just a different species.
And Raymond Burr's nickname was reportedly "Bunny," which adds extra Easterosity to the tableau.
The Peepzilla marshmallow blobs are Peeps(TM), alright, just a different species.
I deny this! I repudiate it! I do not wish it to be! Seriously, aren't they called Peeps because that's the sound that chicks make? Plus Original Peeps, Classic Peeps, Orthodox Peeps, whatever have a smooth sugary rondure. The bunnies look like they were cut out of sheet marshmallow (ooh, that's a nasty thought) by third graders.
Am I missing something about the title or shouldn't it be OAEPBBP: Obligatory Annual Easter Peeps Boing Boing Post?
The bunnies are not cut out of sheet marshmallow, Antinous, and Lileks is quite right, as always. I consulted this unofficial Peeps FAQs page and discovered that although Peeps were originally made by hand, modern-day Peeps "are kind of extruded through a special nozzle which moves back and forth, giving the Peeps their characteristic shape. Bunnies are extruded in slices. The sugar coating is then applied." Furthermore, the Just Born company "has started using the brand name 'Peeps' to refer to the entire line of sugar-coated marshmallow holiday candies, such as Peeps brand Bunnies and Peeps brand Hearts." So alas, now you can legally refer to marshmallow hearts as Peeps! But before you repudiate the Just Born company, bear in mind that its founder, Sam Peeps, was awarded the keys to San Francisco for inventing the Born Sucker Machine, which mechanically inserted sticks into lollipops.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/food/candy/peeps/preamble.html