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The History of Easter Candy
tanagra writes "The days are longer, the sun is brighter, the colors are rich, and the candies are pastel. It's springtime once again, and in celebration of its triumphant return we enter into the saccharin sanctity of a world filled with Marshmallow Peeps, Jelly Beans, and other well packaged bits of sweetness sure to bring about a sugar-induced coma. Join us as we delve into the delectable not-so-distant past of Easter candy and learn, among other things, just how Marshmallow Peeps came to rule the world."
I've never heard of Marshmallow Peeps. Are they our secret masters?
As an European, neither had I. Sweet Wikipedia to the rescue!
I like this part: The messy and largely self-entertaining game, "Peep Jousting" is played with a microwave. One takes two Peeps, and licks the right-hand side of each until sticky. A toothpick is thereby adhered to each Peep, pointing forward like a jousting lance. The Peeps are then set in a microwave, squared off against one another, and heated up. As they expand, the toothpick lances thrust toward each opponent, and the winner is the one that does not pop and deflate.
Bunnies, baby chicks, eggs. All fertility symbols linked to the new life seen in Spring.
Even the name of the "Easter".
I don't live in Australia but I've tasted Vegemite and even know that Foster's is Australian for beer!
I doubt that many Australians have ever tasted Foster's, and if you ask for it at an Australian pub they will just assume you are a tourist.
The beers most average Australians drink are VB, Tooheys (in NSW), XXXX (in Queensland), and various other beers that vary from state to state.
Fosters: it's Australian for "tourists will drink any old piss!".
Oh, and we have marshmallows here. I've never heard of "marshmallow peeps" before, though.
Probably the most popular etymology of 'Easter' concerns the Babylonian fertility goddess Ishtar, whose resurrection coincides with the coming of spring.
There's a Starman, waiting in the sky / He'd like to come and meet us, but he hasn't got the time.
um i think you got that a bit backwards its serving size (5 peeps) 42g and sugars
36g (but it is a close thing
btw for our unelightened viewers peeps are shaped like chicks (whom go peep when real)
and are made of this stuff (marshmellow) that is 99% puffed sugar. Diabetic folks could almost go into hyperglicemic shock just looking at them.
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I've used this argument before about the World Series pointing to an attitude of the USA , but unfortunately it's not really true.
The World Series is so named because it was originally sponsored by a New York newspaper called ... The World! It doesn't change anyone's philosophy but now I can't use it to make fun of my United Statesian friends , more's the pity.
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Easter is in April and Christmas is in December.
Spring may in April, but that's only on the Northern Hemisphere. Down on the other side of the world, Autumn starts in April and Christmas is during high summer! Down here we lay on the beach and tan on Christmas day.
--deckert
Only for some Sephardic Jews. In general, corn and its products are not Kosher for Passover, which is why you can buy 2 liter bottles of Coke made with real sugar at Passover.
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To give credit where credit is due and because the show is genius, this is from the colbert report:
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If you lived in Australia you'd find plenty of them, and they'd be all half price because here it's Monday :). I'm off to the shops to get me some cheap cadbury chocolate now.
You forgot to include the detail that they are also coated in sugar. So when you look at them they are basically sugar coated sugar.
Saw this one a loooong time ago:
http://www.peepresearch.org/smoking.html
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