Continuing an Easter tradition like no other, today one local Mom retrieved the uneaten marshmallow peeps from a box in the garage and blew the dust off them before placing them in her children’s Easter baskets for the 7th straight year in a row.
“I’ve tried everything to get rid of these Peeps: Bribery, telling my kids they can’t have their Cadbury eggs until they finish their Peeps—one time I even broke one up into little pieces and snuck them into my kids broccoli and they still always find it and eat around the Peeps,” said local mom Tracy Peck. “But after all these years, they’ve started to have sentimental value and I can’t bring myself to throw them away either. Aw, look! This is the stale Peep that Asher lost his first tooth on when he actually tried to take a bite of it last year.”
But representatives for Peeps parent company Just Born Quality Confections were extremely concerned after hearing the news that people were trying to feed Peeps to children.
“I cannot stress enough that Peeps are decorative only, and under no circumstances should anyone actually try to eat these things,” said Michael Brimwell, spokesperson for the Peeps brand. “I mean, my God, we stopped manufacturing new marshmallow Peeps in 1994! We just put the same ones out on the shelf each year. Please, it would be far safer to just stick to eating the delicious Easter grass in the baskets instead.”
At press time, Tracy had resourcefully decided to also recycle everything she’d blown off the Peeps into decorative dust bunnies.
