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10/24/2005: peep.

Peep, peep peep peep. Peep, peep peep. Peep peep peep peep peep peep, peepy peepy peep, peeps, peep peep peep. Peep, peep peep PEEP peep peep peep PEEP peep peep. Peeb? Peep peep peep? Peep. Peep peep peep peepin’.

Peep peep peep, peep peep peep. Peep? Peepy.
Peep peep.


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Discussion Thread: 98 comments

nicely done!

Ghosted by Jenny @ 10/24/2005 8:56 PM EDT

I worked really hard on this blog entry.

Ghosted by Matt @ 10/24/2005 8:56 PM EDT

Fantabulous is the only word that can contain this news.

Ghosted by G @ 10/24/2005 8:59 PM EDT

Peeps are my favorite things in the world.

This and the great cocoa bat are the only Halloween peeps I haven’t seen in stores, and now I want to…really bad.

Are those things bigger than the normal Peeps pumpkins? I can’t imagine it would be very easy to decorate the little guys. Then again, I’m the least artistic fellow in the world.

Ghosted by mtrox @ 10/24/2005 9:05 PM EDT

Yes, they are bigger — about twice as big. And bulky!

Ghosted by Matt @ 10/24/2005 9:06 PM EDT

Huzzah! Hail to the peepsmakers, and hail to Matt for letting us in on the good word.

Ghosted by mtrox @ 10/24/2005 9:09 PM EDT

I did actually see these back in the beginning of the season, though I forget where. I’ve also seen the ghost and Pumpkin Peeps, and I actually found Peeps Bean Bag toys at Super Fresh (there are also pillow-like Peeps in lycra). The only Peeps I haven’t seen yet are the darn Cocoa Cats…my favorite Halloween Peeps, of course. My favorite Peeps overall are those wonderful Gingerbread Peeps at Christmas that are, of course, also hard to find.

Ghosted by starwenn @ 10/24/2005 9:21 PM EDT

Matt- This peep article is comedic genius. Starting off with the word fucking and ending with what ever it ended with, pure genius.
I never liked peeps. The sugar coating was great but the rest, ick. Peace out my peeps. Rodian Rodeo :o

Ghosted by Darth Poop @ 10/24/2005 9:28 PM EDT

They should make spooky Peeps that glow under black light

Ghosted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 10/24/2005 9:33 PM EDT

I got some Cocoa Bats around the time of Matt’s article featuring them and haven’t seen them since. In fact, the store I bought them from never had any more again, leading me to believe that they were discontinued before I bought them and I had bought year-old Cocoa Bats. Meh. You can’t tell the difference with Peeps anyway.

REGARDLESS, they were delicious like no other Peep I’ve had, and now they’re gone. I have tried to find them elsewhere to no avail. For shame, JustBorn. For shame.

Ghosted by Jack of Spades @ 10/24/2005 9:46 PM EDT

The Cocoa Bats were definitely above the norm for Peepsville.

Ghosted by Matt @ 10/24/2005 9:48 PM EDT

I remember my mom always keeping the extra Cake Mate from anything to put in first aid kits for diabetic emergencies. I was always a deprived child when it came to Cake Mate… But it is a really good idea just in case (put it behind their lower lip is what my instructor always said)

Ghosted by Phil @ 10/24/2005 9:53 PM EDT

I don’t know if the world is ready for a cyclops peep.

Ghosted by Jeff Mack @ 10/24/2005 9:54 PM EDT

Matt, I think you did such a great job painting those Peeps pumpkins!!!
I think you should have an art contest and have everybody send in pictures of their decorated Peeps pumpkins. Except that would not be fair to the people to can’t find them. Ok, nevermind. Anyways, you’re awesome!! I haven’t celebrated Halloween since I was a wee child (it being the devil’s holiday and all), but you have made this Halloween the most exciting one ever. I’ve been in the Halloween spirit since the countdown started, and bought Twix with glow in the dark wrappers, and Holiday Jones Soda, and all that. Thanks, Matt.

And please forgive me that I am listening to Christmas music right now!!

Ghosted by LuLu @ 10/24/2005 9:59 PM EDT

Awesome, now if I could only get home before 10 I could make it to Key Food and buy some :(

Ghosted by B-log @ 10/24/2005 10:14 PM EDT

After over two years, I still haven’t found the Cocoa Bats. :(

Ghosted by Ralph @ 10/24/2005 10:19 PM EDT

Peeps. I’ve always distrusted them. My across-the-hall girlfriends in undergrad would get huge care packages full of Peeps around Easter (or whenever their thrifty mothers could find them at the Dollar Store; they’d eat that shit stale, no problem.)

What followed was often a full-on week of Sugar Frenzy. Peeps and Donald Duck grapefruit juice for breakfast. A quick Peep-me-up before lunch. Pop a few Peeps before clubbing on Friday night. Before anyone knew it, they were skipping class to lick sugar and sticky yellow marshmallows off their fingers.

They became raging Peep-a-holics.

I guess it’s like any drug. I tried them once and knew Peeps weren’t my thing (unlike a few other things not found readily in the Dollar Store, but rather in the alleyway behind it…which were more to my taste)*. These girls, though, just plowed through those boxes like they were dime bags.

Tch. So sad.

*Lest I lead our more tender readers astray, I must confess I’ve never actually been in a Dollar Store alleyway. Doesn’t the graduate lounge of a university English Department count, though?

Ghosted by Lisa Marie @ 10/24/2005 10:32 PM EDT

Not fantabulous, but scrumptrulescent!

Ghosted by jackie @ 10/24/2005 11:04 PM EDT

This may sound sacrilegious at this site, but I’m not big on eating peeps. I like the way they look and feel in the package, and the way they grow really big in the microwave until finally they become too big and implode into sugary marshmellowness. Thats when they’re tastiest. Or when they get stale. Old or melted. Mmm hmm.

Ghosted by Mattman @ 10/24/2005 11:14 PM EDT

Hm. Adding to Mattman’s melty Peeps fetish, has anyone ever roasted Peeps, à la s’mores?

Burn, bunny, burn!

Ghosted by Lisa Marie @ 10/24/2005 11:38 PM EDT

Lisa Marie:

As an English Major, I would say that yes, the Graduate Lounge of any English Deptartment would count rather nicely.

And Matt, I have to disagree with you about Pumpkins. I keep them until at least Thanksgiving…sometimes a few days after that…

Ghosted by Cameron T. @ 10/24/2005 11:42 PM EDT

Not to long ago, Crayola has started puting out a cake decorating kit. Haven’t spotted it yet but I’ve seen coupons for it.

I Love the 80s 3D starts on VH1 tonight. I love those things.

Ghosted by JLAJRC @ 10/24/2005 11:44 PM EDT

Does anyone else ever play "evil farmer" with Peeps, where you populate an imaginary farm with little peeps, and then you go berserk and eat them?

Ghosted by The Wukong Effect @ 10/24/2005 11:49 PM EDT

I for one, after reading all these X-E Tales of Peepish Whimsy(tm), I thought I would love them.

One bite into one last easter (2005) and I was dead wrong. It was the most godawful, dry, sugary thing I’ve ever tasted. I was scraping off the "Peep Skin" off my lips for a few days after that.

And like I said last blog, why am I thinking about Easter when It’s not even Halloween?!

umm…ALL HAIL FRANKENBERRY!

Ghosted by Invader Norbert @ 10/24/2005 11:49 PM EDT

JLAJRC — Did you pick up 3D glasses from Best Buy? Or did you already have some hanging out in your nightstand? :)

Ghosted by Lisa Marie @ 10/24/2005 11:52 PM EDT

Invader Norbert–don’t worry. Start worrying once you start thinking about Columbus Day before Halloween even arrives.

It IS okay, however, to start thinking about NEXT Halloween immediately after the clock strikes 12:01 a.m. on November 1.

Ghosted by mtrox @ 10/24/2005 11:56 PM EDT

Hahaha "Soon they’ll slip off the Q radar and get all scandalous-on-purpose. Lousy Peeps." That shiz is hilarious.
Pumpkin Jason is totally adorable, and so is the Jack-O. Are we all allowed to start using "bonusly bitching" now?

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 10/24/2005 11:57 PM EDT

Cameron T. — *wink*

And mtrox — yeah, so long as you survive the night, might as well start planning next year.

I forgot to mention that I saw a Drac poster the other day on the counter at my local mechanic (who can’t seem to stock state inspection tags when I need them, but that’s another story). The poster had a huge Drac on it, and the advertisement was for, you guessed it, shocks. (I think.) Anyway, it was some promotional "buy something, enter to win something" deal. But that Drac was awesome. And I think it’s cool as shit that auto parts folk celebrate the Undead in their advertising campaigns.

I’ve got to get some sleep, but "I Sit On Acid — Stript Version" (Lords of Acid) just popped up in the spin of things. There’s no way I’m sleeping now.

Ghosted by Lisa Marie @ 10/25/2005 12:07 PM EDT

Invader Norbert–don’t worry. Start worrying once you start thinking about Columbus Day before Halloween even arrives.

Well, duh I thought about Columbus day…it was only 2 weeks ago.

And Holy Crap, I forgot about I Love The 80s 3-D!! Weird Al is supposed to be in this one too!

Ghosted by Invader Norbert @ 10/25/2005 12:38 PM EDT

Lisa Marie, Cameron, I think we need X-E English Major club tshirts.

Ghosted by Gabbylicious @ 10/25/2005 3:21 AM EDT

The clock on the blog makes me look like an insomniac. It’s only 1:21 here, not 3:21.

Ghosted by Gabbylicious @ 10/25/2005 3:22 AM EDT

Aggh, I can’t take it anymore!!!

Pepsi Holiday Spice, seeing Episode III late, Jones Thanksgiving Soda, Jones Halloween Soda, Mountain Dew Pitch Black I and II, Halloween Kid Cuisine, and now Halloween Decorating Peeps.

Sigh yet another thing I miss out on by being in Godforsaken Germany.

C’mon Astros. If you don’t win the World Series, I’ll die. Or vote Democrat. Or move back to Texas.

Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz

Ghosted by Erik Majorwitz @ 10/25/2005 6:16 AM EDT

You know, I really shouldn’t be surprised that there are so many other english majors reading XE. Perhaps someday we can all work at the same fast-food joint, and scam Happy Meals toys for the sake of new articles.
My favorite thing to do with Peeps is to microwave a yellow chick with a blue bunny scrunched really close together on the same plate. It quickly turns into a two-colored, dual species gooey bubbling CRIME AGAINST NATURE.
Much like the Hungry Man breakfast.

Ghosted by Jedoc @ 10/25/2005 7:24 AM EDT

I prefer my Peeps hard and stale (but frozen will do in a pinch).

That Hungry Man breakfast looks amazing, but I’m the kind of guy who revels in things that are downright awful for you.

And I’m also an English major.

Ghosted by mtrox @ 10/25/2005 7:48 AM EDT

the ONLY way to eat peeps is stale. open the pack as soon as you get them, wait a week, and dig in!

Ghosted by bitchpants @ 10/25/2005 8:28 AM EDT

Lisa Marie, I’ve got a pair of 3D glasses kicking around my bedroom at my parents’ house. Not cardboard ones, either… all plastic, and aviator-style shape. They’re hideous, but they’re permanant :D

Ghosted by Vegan Mike @ 10/25/2005 8:52 AM EDT

My 3-D glasses came from the back of a box of Fruit by the Foot.
The really tragic bit is that I had a pair that I got from the British Museum’s mummy exhibit. They were made to look like the eyes from King Tut’s deathmask. Unfortunately, I forgot to get a souvenir for one of my friends who is a fan of both mummies and 3-D movies, and so I ended up giving them to her.
And that is the story of my lost mummy 3-D glasses. Admit it, your lives have changed for the better merely by reading it.

Ghosted by Jedoc @ 10/25/2005 9:10 AM EDT

Having eaten an entire box of regular pumpkin peeps yesterday, this article kind of grossed me out. In a good way.

I too, was an English major. Graduated in 2003.

Ghosted by Jessica Marie @ 10/25/2005 9:18 AM EDT

Crikey.

I really need to get off the X-E blog and update my own wee wordspace.

Or work. Yeah, my boss would like that, considering I’m leaving two days after I get off Halloween vacation for a meeting in San Jose.

Meh.

Ghosted by Lisa Marie @ 10/25/2005 9:36 AM EDT

"Bonusly Bitching", I like the sound of that. It sounds so 80’s.

Awesome article, it was "Bonusly Bitching" :) . I laughed the whole way through. Thanks Matt.

Ghosted by Texican @ 10/25/2005 9:38 AM EDT

People like looking at pumpkins in November, just not jack-o’lanters. I try to wipe my slate completely clean for the Christmas season after Halloween though, so no pumpkins for me.

If this were the ’80s, that Jason Peep would totally get mass-produced.

Ghosted by Monte @ 10/25/2005 10:12 AM EDT

You know who loves Peeps? (Of course not.) My dad. He got like a little kid every spring when they started showing up (you know, back in the day before Peeps started peeping into other holidays.) I think he enjoyed them all the more because my mom hated them and it was one of the few treats he could keep all to himself without her constantly trying to score some from him. It’s the little things.

Ghosted by Lori @ 10/25/2005 10:13 AM EDT

The peep at the top of this page looks a bit like garfield. I still haven’t found the cocoa bats, but I want to.
Is it OKAY to say, CHRISTMAS IS ONLY 2 MONTHS FROM TODAY. :) I didn’t mean for that all to rhyme, but I am not going to try and retype it so it doesn’t.
MATT- are you going to do a Christmas Jukebox? I know the songlist could be endless, but you could keep it to older childrens TV special Christmas songs. I am way jumping the gun I know. It’d like 29 degrees outside here and all frosty, can you blame me?

Ghosted by kb @ 10/25/2005 10:45 AM EDT

The Christmas Jukebox from last year is still available, but it will be tweaked with new songs for the 2005 season.

Ghosted by Matt @ 10/25/2005 10:48 AM EDT

Wow… a Peeps cake would kick all sorts of ass…

Ghosted by CannedPasta @ 10/25/2005 10:49 AM EDT

I think I’ve tried Peeps once in my life. Those things are gross. I know I’ll probably be banned from the blog for saying that, but I still can’t go to my Aunt’s apartment and not think about those things….

Oh, and I hate pumpkin anything also…I’m so not into Halloween….

Ghosted by Galvatron @ 10/25/2005 11:03 AM EDT

kb —

Yes, blame. Blame is all we have for you. Blame blame blame.

(Pass the cocoa and gingersnaps, won’t you? Quietly, please — the "Chocolate," "Coffee," and "Tea" movements of The Nutcracker Suite are playing. *wink*)

Ghosted by Lisa Marie @ 10/25/2005 11:06 AM EDT

Galvatron–I know this was not your intention, seeing as how you mentioned hating both things, but I had a thought.

Pumpkin flavored Peeps! It would be a worthwhile expansion into Thanksgiving for the Peepsters, and they could also do normal-flavored peeps in the shape of turkeys and pilgrim-hats.

Oh man, I am going to be a billionaire.

Ghosted by mtrox @ 10/25/2005 11:21 AM EDT

Peeps cake? Buy two of the kits, spread the icing on one pumpkin, stack one on top, icing on that, stack, icing, stack, decorate. Then try to eat it in one bite.
Just because I have to limit my sugar, doesn’t mean I can’t still think of new ways to reach a sugar rush.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 10/25/2005 11:37 AM EDT

mtrox,

What fabu ideas! I’d already thought a marshmallow baby Jesus would be groovy around Christmas-time. A bit…erm…tasteless, perhaps, but groovy.

Ghosted by Lisa Marie @ 10/25/2005 11:41 AM EDT

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