Happy Easter! I know it is now three days passed, but if you go to any major grocery or pharmacy chain right now, you can still get deep discounts on a variety of delectable Easter treats.
Easter is the undisputed candy holiday champion. Don't even attempt to argue with me. I will not be swayed. Halloween is all about candy, but it doesn't have a variety of its own special treats. On Halloween, all your costume gets you is tiny versions of candy bars you can get at full size all the time. This is not special. This is a trick being played on you! On Easter you get a basket of a variety of amazingly specialized treats delivered right to your door and you don't even have to walk around your neighborhood dressed like Slutty Spongebob for these rewards. What about candy corn you ask? Halloween has candy corn. Well guess what? No one except Judy likes candy corn. Easter has malted milk eggs, giant chocolate bunnies, fudge eggs with your name on them (personalized candy!), those amazing tiny hard shell Hershey eggs, and the Godfather of all candy, the mighty Cadbury Cream Eggs.
Easter also, most importantly for the sake of this blog entry, has Peeps. Peeps started just as an Easter treat, but now have branched out to snowman and trees at Christmas, ghosts at Halloween, and hearts for Valentine's Day. I'm one of the few people I know that enjoys eating Peeps. For reasons I don't understand, many people seem frightened by marshmallows manipulated into holiday shapes. Peeps have become more of a pop culture phenomena than actual food. Luckily for us, the Washington Post sponsored a Peeps diorama contest with some amazing results. Click through their slideshow to see Peep-based homages to Octomom, the Nighthawks painting, the US Airways crash on the Hudson, and other historical events and happenings. My personal favorite is Octomom, but Nighthawks took the grand prize. Many entries are highly detailed and very entertaining. Now Peeps are both food and art!
(Thank you Laura for bringing this contest to my attention.)
About Me
- K. G.
- A short list of some of the things I love: Cupcakes, We Wrote the Book on Connectors, babies, baby animals, whiskey, making stuff, going places, seeing things, (insert type of food or beverage here) Fest, Luigi, Mr. T, Martian Manhunter, Yoda, walking to the beach, used bookstore smell, movies with dance scenes, aliens, pirates, monkeys, vampires, falling off my bike, a fine-tuned sense of irony, patterned paper, jars of buttons, 20-sided dice, cookies of the month, rock shows, giant pink sunglasses, slip-on shoes, hoodies, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Coupland, 90s slow jams, holding hands, ideating, Rock of Love, Holga pictures, carnivals, cute Japanese fabric, fire pits, roller derby, the Indianapolis Colts, Olaf Kolzig, my friends, my family, and you.
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Easter has candy corn too so Halloween can suck it. Besides peeps and cadbury eggs FAR out weigh candy corn alone. My mom put edible easter grass in our basket this year - what will they think of next???
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