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The History of Easter Candy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the brain-sploding-soo-much-sugar dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Marshmallow Peeps came to rule the world? by mwilli · · Score: 0, Troll

    It always amazes me how vain many people are and how blind they are to the rest of the world. Also - WTF is this article doing on slashdot??? Slow news day??

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  2. Rule the world ?!? by dargaud · · Score: 0, Troll

    Never heard of any of those candies. From their names they sound rather disgusting. You should rephrase that to "rule the US of A" where the sense of taste is a long gone memory. In the meanwhile the rest of the world enjoys chocolate eggs.

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  3. Re:Firefox runs like ass after update by Dis*abstraction · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hasn't it always run like shit? Install Safari and some decent plugins instead; you'll be much happier.

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  4. World wide web by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 0, Troll

    The world has a population of roughly 6,000,000,000 people. Of those, approximately 300,000,000 live in the USA. This means, according to the summary, around 5,700,000,000 people currently on this planet do not come from "the world".

    Hey, what do you know, we've been looking for aliens in space, and it turns out I've been one the whole time. Can I have my seti@home cycles back, please?

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  5. Duhmerican... by Ombwah · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hey dumbass, way to show your mastery of irony. You slam an entire country, larger than most others in population, racial diversity, and square mileage, for rash generalization. Do I need to point your rash generalization out? WTG Idiot.

    Further Marshmallows are not an american creation.

    Look it up before you open your filthy, ignorant, cake hole.

    S-F-B.

    http://home.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=qu estion128.htm&url=http://www.faqs.org/faqs/food/ca ndy/peeps/section-12.html

    http://home.howstuffworks.com/question128.htm