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04/10/2004: The Peeps Marshmallow Maker & Audio X-E!

Come on, you know I had to do at least one Easter article. You’ve probably heard of the Marshmallow Peeps Marshmallow Maker by now, but have ya ever seen it in action? The process of cooking Peeps is a lot simpler than you might suspect, and the article shows it step-by-step. No matter, though — the playset was too damn cheap to complain about, and though smaller, you can really make Peeps with it. It wasn’t some colossal joke on Wham-O’s part. Peeps are no longer exclusive to Easter, so if you’re catching this article after the holiday, feel free to hit the toy stores afterwards. As long as you can stomach walking up to the register with a Peeps machine to wonder if the money ladies know that it’s really for you.

If you’re craving more words loosely tied to Easter, hop back to last year’s tribute to Cadbury Creme Eggs. If it’s more Peeps you’re after, check out my previous adventures with the Halloween and Christmas varieties.

And now, a holiday bonus! A friend of mine got a new MP3 player, and along with it came software that’d convert webpages into audio files. Click here to hear my “Worst Game Room Ever” article, spoken by Dr. Sbaitso’s wife, who really doesn’t have a grasp on comma pauses or all the words I must’ve misspelled. You’ll probably give up thirty seconds in, but it’s pretty weird for me to hear it. If you want more, you’re probably alone, but I’ll oblige with an audio version of my Choco-Bliss article. I’ll hold off on the holiday wishes until a blog entry later tonight, but in case someone’s going to Tahiti Grandma’s right now, yeah, have an amazing fucking Easter. It’s such an exciting blast of a holiday, ain’t it?

Posted by Matt. E-mail me!

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Do Peeps explode in the microwave? I must know.

Ghosted by trajeal @ 04/12/2004 12:04 PM EDT

I’m a vegan – no Peeps for me.

However, I must than Matt for mentioning Dr. Sbaitso. I’ve been searching for the spelling of that name for the past seven or eight years. Life is good again!

Ghosted by Tougi @ 04/12/2004 12:39 PM EDT

So any plans to tie a robot file to every other new article? I think "Krang’s Body" should have a wav. file…

Ghosted by Roddy @ 04/12/2004 12:57 PM EDT

yeah for Tougi! vegan pride!!! aiight

Ghosted by nelson @ 04/12/2004 2:08 PM EDT

Regarding the audio commentaries:
Aside from the censoring of "offensive" language (except when used in a compound word such as "shitload"), it’s not TOO bad; it could have been much worse…

It leads me to wonder: Matt, have you ever considered making an audio recording of an article yourself? Perhaps typing the article as you normally would, then recording (yourself?) reading the text, uploading the article and labeling any accompaning graphics as "Figure 1", "Figure 2", etc?
Ex. "…and figure 8 was the result."

It might be an interesting change-up for the regular readers of X-E…

Ghosted by Scott C @ 04/12/2004 2:37 PM EDT

The tone that goes through my head when doing these articles is nothing I could duplicate with my actual voice. I’m an extremely incoherent speaker, honestly. To the point where I talk mostly in code to the people I’m close with, because they’re not going to understand me anyway and it’s better to annoy them less with only half the words.

In short, I’m probably the worst candidate to read ‘em. I think Robot Girl could be taught to do ‘em a bit better — I’d have to redo my syntax and eliminate all the made-up words and whatnot, but we’ll see. I wouldn’t present ‘em as anything but a gag, but I’ll still be putting some more up tonight or tomorrow…whenever my friend has a chance to make some more.

Ghosted by Matt @ 04/12/2004 2:45 PM EDT

I really enjoyed listening to the articles, but I love me some made-up words. Maybe if you spelled them fo-net-ick-ally.

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 04/12/2004 4:26 PM EDT

Peep torture!

http://www.tenholder.net/peeps/
http://www.peepresearch.org/

Meef, how dare you talk bad about circus peanuts! Peeps blow, but leave the peanuts out of it.

Ghosted by Trampus @ 04/12/2004 8:10 PM EDT

All of my Peep questions have been answered. Thanks, Trampus.

Ghosted by trajeal @ 04/12/2004 8:36 PM EDT

I’ve never seen or had a marshmallo peep in my entire life. Do they have them in Canada?

Ghosted by CasinoRoyale @ 04/12/2004 8:41 PM EDT

we bought the mcdonalds fry maker once- it was just bread cut into strips.

a little bit off topic: marshmallow fluff is in australia! yay! we got it from BI-LO but look around and you will find it.

Ghosted by Rachel Cakes @ 04/12/2004 10:52 PM EDT

Gross. Those things are nasty.

Ghosted by nbw @ 04/12/2004 10:54 PM EDT

If those people at World Wrestling Entertainment had any brains at all, they’d have Christian shilling the Peeps. Couldn’t you just see it? Christian offering Peeps to his Peeps. Imagine what it would do for Christian’s image too, this tough wrestler doing commercials about how much he loves his fluffy, sugary, soft Peeps.

Hmm, I guess that’s why I don’t have a job in marketing.

Ghosted by Trent @ 04/12/2004 11:38 PM EDT

Honestly, and I in no way intend this to be a cheap shot, it’s kind of like listening to some of the women on NPR with the "neutral", almost Canadian, accents… the sort of accent the "Delicious Dish" sketches on Saturday Night Live were spoofing. But the technology is reaching a point where the mental image that comes to mind when I hear a "voice" like that is a sexy anime android babe like Alpha Hatsuseno from Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou and not Stephen Hawking, nothing against Stephen Hawking.

I have some experience fooling around with voice synthesis programmes and I find the best voices currently are the French voices, probably because French spellings are a bit more standardized than in English, with the accents and cedilles and all. One thing I love to do is cut-and-paste English-language text and have it be read by a "French" voice, because, since it reads all the English words pronouncing the vowels and consonants the French way, you get interesting sounding gibberish that’s like one of those short cartoons where the characters chatter and the chatter is almost a recognizable language but not quite.

Ghosted by Steve Brandon @ 04/13/2004 4:19 AM EDT

Seriously, the best article ever. I was chuckling along, and then it came to the final picture, that of your final peep product, and that’s when I lost it.

So great.

Ghosted by emer @ 04/13/2004 11:54 AM EDT

I’m more of a Cadbury Egg person, myself. Depending on the color of the peep, the more it will be bitter or sweet.
Cadbury Eggs are pure, unadulterated sweetness to the max! I can’t eat more than two, though.

Ghosted by AngeFaitore @ 04/13/2004 3:28 PM EDT

The other day I was driving in my car and saw someone in an old pickup truck throwing peeps at another car. Very wierd, I drove over a few of them and had peep in my wheel well when I got home. Road kill peeps.

Ghosted by Bill W @ 04/13/2004 5:33 PM EDT

In regards to the Cadbury Creme Eggs article (which doesn’t allow comments to be posted):

I actually removed the foil wrapper in one piece!

Click here to see. It won’t let me post the actual image through this comment.

But it’s not entirely impossible!

Keep up the great articles!

Ghosted by Amanda J @ 04/13/2004 11:02 PM EDT

good going Amanda J! our creme egg wrappers are a bit different. ours are mostly blue in colour and the chicks are smaller…

Ghosted by Rachel Cakes @ 04/14/2004 3:43 AM EDT

And now, the band you’ve all been waiting for, the greatest mother-rockers of them all: THE ROAD KILL PEEPS!!

Ghosted by kingklash @ 04/14/2004 12:29 PM EDT

Peeps are definitely on our not-to-be-taken-internally list owing to son’s corn allergy. Nevertherless, stalwart (i.e. nutty) mother that I am and deeply indebted to Martha Stewart for her recipe, son and I made Peeps from scratch a few years ago. Must confess they looked more like yours than Martha’s! We called them Bunny Poop. Son loved them! No one else would touch ‘em!

Ghosted by Rexa @ 04/14/2004 12:52 PM EDT

Nelson, your website freaks me out just a little bit.

Ghosted by Tougi @ 04/15/2004 8:18 PM EDT

This seems like a lot of work to go through to make little marshmallow candies. I am inherently a very lazy person. In fact, I’m so lazy that I didn’t even read the whole freakin’ article.

Let me know when there is a Peeps delivery service so I can just have them dropped off at my door. Then maybe I can find myself a wife to feed them to me. Nah, I’m too fat to find a wife.

-word up.

Ghosted by Alfredo McSqueezerton @ 04/26/2004 1:58 PM EDT

A shout-out to all my Peeps!

Ghosted by kingklash @ 04/30/2004 2:37 PM EDT

I wanted to comment about a link that is on this article, about the Snoopy Ice Snow maker or whatever its called. The toy where you shave ice to make a sno cone. You know, they dont tell you this secret, this is one of my own – the ice is a bitch to grind up into tiny pieces when your 5 or 6. If you pour kool-aid or any other kind of drink into ice cube trays, then shave those up when their frozen, its a hell of a lot easier, and you dont have to buy any refill packs. And it tastes 10 times better than the shaved ice.

Ghosted by Sarah @ 06/07/2004 2:22 PM EDT

Peeps are an abomination upon the Earth. If I had to choose between eating a marshmallow Peep and being raped by the entire town of Inbred Gulch, AK, well… I’d eat the Peeps, but I’d probably question my decision afterwards.

Ghosted by Jason @ 07/04/2004 6:53 PM EDT

I just found CHOCOLATE FILLED, pumpkin shaped marshmallow peeps in the dollar store near my home in NC. Six otherwise ordinary official peeps with a little disk of chocolatey goo in the middle all for a buck. Surprisingly like regular peeps, but for $.20 each, a damn miracle.

Ghosted by Mac @ 09/08/2004 11:13 PM EDT

I just found CHOCOLATE FILLED, pumpkin shaped marshmallow peeps in the dollar store near my home in NC. Six otherwise ordinary official peeps with a little disk of chocolatey goo in the middle all for a buck. Surprisingly like regular peeps, but for $.20 each, a damn miracle.

Ghosted by Mac @ 09/08/2004 11:13 PM EDT

Peeps: the only thing I hate most when the Easter season comes around. Not to mention the nastiest seasonal candy except for those little hard candy hearts that you get from people on Valentine’s day because they didn’t want to spend any money to get you good chocolate and caramel creamy candy. Same concept here with the peeps. No, I’m too cheap to buy you any candy, so eat this cheap crap instead.

Ghosted by Jonathan @ 09/09/2004 2:47 PM EDT

I am a rare species.

I am one of the very few who actually despises Peeps (and with a passion, I might add)

Easter was never a pleasant time for me. I am the fancy-pants "Hershy Bar with Almonds and almonds only, dammmit" type people in the world.

A giant chocolate bunny, "Starburst" brand jelly beans, and a bunch of rock-hard marshmallow crap piles just doesn’t do it for me.

Ghosted by Trout Spanker @ 10/28/2004 1:13 AM EDT

Yay! Spam!

Ghosted by Trout Spanker @ 11/07/2004 12:35 PM EST

Peeps are good cute and they are not that bad for you a bonus!!
_

Ghosted by Lorelai @ 02/20/2007 5:20 PM EST

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04/10/2004: The Peeps Marshmallow Maker & Audio X-E!

Come on, you know I had to do at least one Easter article. You’ve probably heard of the Marshmallow Peeps Marshmallow Maker by now, but have ya ever seen it in action? The process of cooking Peeps is a lot simpler than you might suspect, and the article shows it step-by-step. No matter, though — the playset was too damn cheap to complain about, and though smaller, you can really make Peeps with it. It wasn’t some colossal joke on Wham-O’s part. Peeps are no longer exclusive to Easter, so if you’re catching this article after the holiday, feel free to hit the toy stores afterwards. As long as you can stomach walking up to the register with a Peeps machine to wonder if the money ladies know that it’s really for you.

If you’re craving more words loosely tied to Easter, hop back to last year’s tribute to Cadbury Creme Eggs. If it’s more Peeps you’re after, check out my previous adventures with the Halloween and Christmas varieties.

And now, a holiday bonus! A friend of mine got a new MP3 player, and along with it came software that’d convert webpages into audio files. Click here to hear my “Worst Game Room Ever” article, spoken by Dr. Sbaitso’s wife, who really doesn’t have a grasp on comma pauses or all the words I must’ve misspelled. You’ll probably give up thirty seconds in, but it’s pretty weird for me to hear it. If you want more, you’re probably alone, but I’ll oblige with an audio version of my Choco-Bliss article. I’ll hold off on the holiday wishes until a blog entry later tonight, but in case someone’s going to Tahiti Grandma’s right now, yeah, have an amazing fucking Easter. It’s such an exciting blast of a holiday, ain’t it?

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