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They've got those cream eggs at the drug store now, so I thought we needed to begin talking about this... It hasn't even been Mardi Grad, right?

Search:
Jelly Beans
Peeps
Cream Eggs

Destroy:
Caramel Eggs

Undecided:
Milk Chocolate Monoliths

Also, marked down candy after Easter = totally classic.

[eating cream egg.... NOW]

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Cadbury eggs
Destroy: Peeps; cheap chocolate bunnies

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

when the hell IS Easter this year?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Easter Sunday = 20 April.

Search: EVERYTHING!

(Though I have a very love/hate relationship with Creme Eggs and you can get them all year here anyway so they don't count.)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 16:37 (twenty-three years ago)

oh god that's forever away!
I need a long weekend NOW Damnit!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 16:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Argh, I was supposed to go to the MIT fles that day. Fucking Christian asshats!

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I read that as 'fucking Christian atheists,' which seemed a bit odd.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 16:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Pancake Day next Tuesday!!! HOORAY!

April is a great month, as I have 9 days off from work, at the cost of only 4 days of annual leave.

(USA all ask what is Pancake Day?)

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 17:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Pancake Day = Mardi Gras = Fat Tuesday

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)

*gets ready to lurch disgustingly from pancakes to Easter eggs in churning sea of FAT and SUGAR*

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 17:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Search:
Sees Chocolate Butter Cream eggs (absolutely sinful!)
Also, Sees old-fashioned easter basktes (they might not be selling these any more :(

Destroy:
Those horrid "spice flavoured" faux jelly beans. GACK!

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Jell Belly

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 22:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Jell Belly
Destroy: The Popcorn Flavor- Like sticking a pat of butter in your mouth.

And I HATE_HOLLOW_BUNNIES!! SOLID CHOCOLATE 4-EVER!!!!

― brg30 (brg30), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 22:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Peeps are evil. All hail Peeps.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 22:59 (twenty-three years ago)

should be "Jelly Belly" of course, and there are a few awful flavors, but the sheer volume of them makes up for it.
Those packages where you get the card that correlates appearance w/flavor are cool

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Elmer's anything, but especially the Gold Brick eggs, which are chocolate with little malted bits in them. They're local to Louisiana, I don't know if they sell them elsewhere. Also: Cadbury mini-eggs (not the mini creme eggs, the chocolate ones with the brittle non-glazed candy coating).

Destroy: Anything by Palmer's. Any non-Jelly Belly jellybeans.

The stores here have been selling Easter stuff since February 15th, despite Mardi Gras -- maybe because the only Mardi Gras foodstuffs are King Cake and Moon Pies

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:05 (twenty-three years ago)

There are days when I think Moon Pies may be the best snack ever invented.
There are also days when I think they are the worst food product ever to enter my body.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Search:
The "Arousing Peep" game - Basic rules:
1. Everyone should be at least semi-intoxicated
2. Everyone should be in a good mood
3. Everyone should want to laugh
4. It helps if everyone is horny

Distribute several "peeps" to each person - then take turns using your mouth and/or other body parts to do obscene things with the marshmallow critters - the emphasis is on both creativity and arousal.

Trust me, play this at your next FAP - I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 27 February 2003 00:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Moon Pies are like Cheetos, for me -- I can enjoy them while I'm eating them, but then immediately go "Why the hell did I eat that?"

No, we don't have cheese Moon Pies here. We do have banana ones, though.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 27 February 2003 00:16 (twenty-three years ago)

i want candy.

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 27 February 2003 00:18 (twenty-three years ago)

the only candy that matters:
http://www.keepeastereasy.com/images/new_reeseseggs.jpg

― maura (maura), Thursday, 27 February 2003 01:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Search:

Anything with marshmallow or peanut butter. Mmmmmm....peanut butter...

Destroy:

Carob.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Thursday, 27 February 2003 01:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm so thankful that Cadbury Eggs aren't around all year, I'd probably end up looking like Jabba the Hut. So search them, definitely. Before I get them all.

Destroy peeps. They're just gross, their twee cuteness is no justification for how horrible they taste. They are to Easter what candy corn is to Halloween. Simply disgusting.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 27 February 2003 01:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: malty balls.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 27 February 2003 01:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Peeps taste like something? I just get 'em for the sugar on sugar crunch!

Candy corn is divine.

Hmm. I sound like the anti-Nicole. But that's not possible. I was in the same room with her and the universe didn't explode...

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Thursday, 27 February 2003 03:20 (twenty-three years ago)

search: cadbury's mini eggs

destroy: cadbury's creme eggs (i still don't understand how people can eat a whole one (or more) of these, they're so sickly sweet. and messy. yuck.)

― sand.y, Thursday, 27 February 2003 03:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Peeps taste like the inside of a tire. Fear the Peeps. Worship the Peeps.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 February 2003 05:14 (twenty-three years ago)

How gorrible is it to have Easter on 420 this year? I think God is trying to tell us something... No matter what religion I was, I wouldn't be able to smoke out on Easter Sunday.
Oh yeah,
Search: Peeps and the like
Destroy: Cadbury eggs and those weird maltball eggs...in fact, andything egg like needs to go.

― Lola Falana, Thursday, 27 February 2003 05:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Destroy peeps. They're just gross, their twee cuteness is no justification for how horrible they taste.

But but but you saluted your peeps on another thread! I even showed a picture of the holy objects!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 February 2003 06:17 (twenty-three years ago)

WHAT IS A MOON PIE? And can I eat it?

(Well, obviously the answer to the second question is 'yes', but I might not like them. But I think I would! MOON PIE!)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 27 February 2003 09:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Milka Löffel-Eier. then give them to me and I will destroy them by eating them all. You can keep the little plastic spoon and egg carton.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 27 February 2003 10:11 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.moonpie.com/

You can order them online!

They're kind of cake-like things filled with marshmallow-ish stuff and coated in chocolette (which is my just-now-coined term for "chocolate-type coating substance." David Johansen would be proud.) I suspect they're popular here because they're going to survive being thrown from a moving parade float into a crowd of drunk people trampling each other for beads and being bonked in the head with coconuts (okay, they don't bonk anymore) better than, say, squishy Twinkies would. The chocolette gives them resilience.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 27 February 2003 11:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Aha a bit like Wagon Wheels? Yum.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 27 February 2003 11:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Peeps taste like something? I just get 'em for the sugar on sugar crunch!

If they just tasted like sugar they might be fine, but they taste like stale sugar mixed with melting plastic.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 27 February 2003 15:03 (twenty-three years ago)

This is why they are fantastic. And evil.

RELINQUISH YOUR SOUL TO PEEPS.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 February 2003 15:03 (twenty-three years ago)

do they have puds in the US? (something tells me no)

(i want to serve em at an xmas party, pyramidally, a la ferrero rocher)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 27 February 2003 15:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Artist David Ottogalli makes sculptures and installations out of Peeps. His official Web page -- I am not making this up -- is http://www.peepsshow.com.

In the meantime, Ned might want to check out Lord of the Peeps: The Fellowship of the Peep.

As for actually eating Easter and other candy:

Search: chocolate
Destroy: marshmallow anything (including Peeps, leave them for the artists); malted milk anything

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 27 February 2003 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Malted milk is awful too. I never thought I'd find myself condemning so many types of candy.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 27 February 2003 15:24 (twenty-three years ago)

do they have puds in the US? (something tells me no)

Trust the UK to take a perfectly good word for jism and use it to describe candy.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 February 2003 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Thank you, Dan.

In the meantime, Ned might want to check out Lord of the Peeps: The Fellowship of the Peep.

What a blessing! :-) This looks great, thanks!

Malted milk is awful too. I never thought I'd find myself condemning so many types of candy.

It's just sick and wrong, Nicole. Dedicate yourself to a celebration of the good and not the evil.

Can I say again that the Cadbury factory in Dunedin is heaven on earth?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

peeps = yum
eating six in a row which is the invariable easter morning practice = quelling your peeps desire till the following year

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 27 February 2003 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not a Christian, so keep your chocolate to yourself.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 27 February 2003 18:38 (twenty-three years ago)

peeps in the microwave = mildly amusing

― rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 27 February 2003 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I know this doesn't technically count as Easter candy but I've just eaten a whole bag of sour Skittles and I think I've lost six layers of skin from the inside of my mouth.

So, don't do that.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 27 February 2003 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

anything made by Lindt will do.

http://www.lindt.com/international/splash/default.asp = yum!!!!!

Not a fan of Cadbury's chocolate.

I'll have a big Kinder egg, as they have big toys in them. If Kinder made Kinder Surprise with Transformers in them, I'd be the happiset man alive (for half an hour or so).

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 27 February 2003 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)

do they have puds in the US? (something tells me no)
Trust the UK to take a perfectly good word for jism and use it to describe candy

Jism? My friend and I invented PUD in high school. It stands for Post-Urination Drip...I think the fellas here know what i'm talking about.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 27 February 2003 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

PEEPS ARE THE BEST, I WISH I HAD PEEPS RIGHT NOW. I LOVE THEM. I WISH I COULD MARRY THEM.

Also I like candy corn, Nicole is a mentalist.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 27 February 2003 19:39 (twenty-three years ago)

You know what would be perfect? PEEPS COVERED IN CANDY CORN. yum!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 February 2003 19:40 (twenty-three years ago)

And then coated in circus peanuts and covered in pure corn syrup. Yup.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 February 2003 19:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Omigod I'm about to die in an orgy of sweet sticky.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 February 2003 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

You started it, you ridiculous man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 February 2003 19:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't take it anymore, I have to go buy Peeps and chocolate-covered malted milk balls and CRAM MY FACE UNTIL I DIE.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 February 2003 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Dying of a crammed face during an orgy = BEST DEATH EVER.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 27 February 2003 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Cross Nails, mmmm.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 27 February 2003 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Malted Ballzz = classic

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 27 February 2003 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, I'm partial to death by Xenia Onatopp thigh squeeze.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 27 February 2003 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

(and again my mere presence causes a thread to descend into sexual perversion)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 February 2003 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Spencer was already well on the way. You two should have a perv show together.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 February 2003 20:01 (twenty-three years ago)

While ILX was down I GORGED myself on malted milk balls and jelly beans and am now on the verge of hurling. YAY EASTER.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 February 2003 22:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Trust the UK to take a perfectly good word for jism and use it to describe candy

Okay, this must be a regional U.S. thing. I thought pud = penis, as opposed to its products. What does it mean in the U.K.?

(Although a dish of penis-shaped candies or pastries would be a terrific addition to a dull party.)

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 28 February 2003 00:33 (twenty-three years ago)

While ILX was down I GORGED myself on malted milk balls and jelly beans and am now on the verge of hurling

Were you so devastated by the prospect of no ILX that you tried to induce a sugar coma?

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 28 February 2003 00:36 (twenty-three years ago)

(Although a dish of penis-shaped candies or pastries would be a terrific addition to a dull party.)

I haven't seen these yet, but I did get a container of mints for my birthday called "dick-tacs" - I like offering them to my mom and her friends 'cos they never know if they should take one

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 28 February 2003 00:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Spencer was already well on the way. You two should have a perv show together.

I bow to Dan's pervishness. I could only be the bandleader.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 28 February 2003 00:40 (twenty-three years ago)

"dick-tacs" is my new Favorite word!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 28 February 2003 00:41 (twenty-three years ago)