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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 on 04/10/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 83 comments

Do Peeps explode in the microwave? I must know.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 04/12/2004 12:04 PM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by Tougi @ 04/12/2004 12:39 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Roddy @ 04/12/2004 12:57 PM

yeah for Tougi! vegan pride!!! aiight

Chestnuts roasted by nelson @ 04/12/2004 2:08 PM

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…

Chestnuts roasted by Scott C @ 04/12/2004 2:37 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 04/12/2004 2:45 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 04/12/2004 4:26 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Trampus @ 04/12/2004 8:10 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 04/12/2004 8:36 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by CasinoRoyale @ 04/12/2004 8:41 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Rachel Cakes @ 04/12/2004 10:52 PM

Gross. Those things are nasty.

Chestnuts roasted by nbw @ 04/12/2004 10:54 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Trent @ 04/12/2004 11:38 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 04/13/2004 4:19 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by emer @ 04/13/2004 11:54 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by AngeFaitore @ 04/13/2004 3:28 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Bill W @ 04/13/2004 5:33 PM

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 http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/1003/alonewithme/Cadbury.jpg">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!

Chestnuts roasted by Amanda J @ 04/13/2004 11:02 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Rachel Cakes @ 04/14/2004 3:43 AM

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

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/14/2004 12:29 PM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by Rexa @ 04/14/2004 12:52 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Tougi @ 04/15/2004 8:18 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Alfredo McSqueezerton @ 04/26/2004 1:58 PM

A shout-out to all my Peeps!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/30/2004 2:37 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Sarah @ 06/07/2004 2:22 PM

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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 on 04/10/2004. E-mail me!


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