Bunpeepegg

Some years ago, I was fascinated by the experiments that some people performed on Hostess Twinkies to determine their physical properties (conductivity, Young's modulus, stuff like that). Later on, that seemed to have inspired various fun stuff that could be done with marshmallow Peeps.

Although I've never tried it myself, I'm fascinated by the idea of microwave Peeps jousting: two Peeps combatents are each given a toothpick to hold on to and placed on a paper-plate jousting field in a microwave. Turn the power on. The first Peep that inflates and pops the other Peep is the winner of the joust. Manifestly, Peeps-Jousters have limited careers.

Then, in a seemingly unrelated development, along comes mention of the Turducken: a festive Thanksgiving or Christmas treat made of a boneless chicken stuffed into a boneless duck stuffed into a turkey, with stuffing between each of the fowl segments. A unique presentation, to be sure.

Evidently this concept of food as Matryoshka doll can be developed in myriad ways. Enter* the … the … well, even its creator isn't sure what to call the thing, so he refers to it as the "Easter Turducken" in homage to his inspiration.

At any rate, this creation makes use of Cadbury cream eggs, marshmallow Peeps#, a hollow chocolate Easter bunny, and a Dremel tool. Follow the link to see the photos, and don't overlook the comments, either.
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* Seen first at Elayne Rigg's blog.

# Sure, you knew there'd be a connection somewhere.

Posted on April 22, 2006 at 22.35 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Curious Stuff, Food Stuff

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