Peeps Evolve
I was quite delighted to discover last night, when I stopped in at our neighborhood drugs & sundries store, that there was a new variety of Peeps evident in pre-easter menagerie on display. Perhaps it was even a new species, but it might be too early to tell. Recent times have seen the appearance of Peeps in a variety of colors, both pastel and saturatedly lurid, as well as some weird bunny shapes that are more making mock of the original, inspired chick-shape than an inspired new silhouette. But this was more exciting to my diabetic eyes than any of those.
Sugar-free Peeps! Made in the original, brilliant yellow Peeps shape, too! I have long been a connoisseur of the non-comestible applications of Peeps (such as the now famous "peeps jousting", requiring in addition to the Peeps a microwave oven and a pair of toothpicks — the Wikipedia article on Peeps has some leads to such topics), a tradition that seemed to me to grow from the popularity of physics experiments with Twinkies that were such a fad when I was in graduate school.*
Now, though, with Sugar-free Peeps, even Isaac and I and may participate with relatively little guilt (they still have some carbohydrates) in consuming the little yellow creatures. But don't tell Isaac — they're now a surprise for his Easter bag!
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* I can't locate the web page at the moment, but a decade ago there were available online summaries, with photographic data, of experiments measuring various physical properties of Twinkies: electrical conductivity, Young's modulus (elasticity), ignition temperature, etc. It was, admittedly, sophomoric, but then there's no accounting for the sense of humor of students of physics.