A reader sent me a links to a Seattle
Times contest to create works of “art” using peeps. Most of
them are pretty funny, though there is the same peep marriages one (for
the record I think uncivil unions are best for same-marshmallow peeps).
The Pope as Peep even makes an appearance in the Peep mobile.
You can checkout the slideshow (or is that peep show) here.
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Please forgive my ignorance, but what is a peep? Even after looking at the picture at the above link, I’m still not sure.
The Pope as Pepe? Did I miss something? Did we elect a Pope from south of the border?
🙂
Paul H, Peeps are marshmallow candies that are formed into little chicks, bunnies, pumpkins, etc., and airbrushed with color. Especially popular around holidays. Think of them as edible Lego figures. 😉 As for me, I like them microwaved (see YouTube).
My wife only eats them stale. When I get them tomorrow, I will have to poke holes in the plastic so they are good-n-stale come Easter.
G-Veg, THANK YOU for the reminder!!! My husband is the same– only eats them stale– and had to travel this week. He’ll be back really late Saturday night so we can all go to Mass together Sunday morning. I’ve been trying to cobble together a few small, surprise touches to welcome him home– favorite soda in the fridge, etc.– and pre-stiffened Peeps would be right up his alley.
I think it’s “funny” that 25% of those images are directly offensive to the Catholic faith.
I assume you object to a peepess at the Last Supper, homosexual Cow-Peeps, and unitarian peep-unions too huh? They make me kinda… well… Hungry.
I’m disappointed in the quasi Catholic-bashing too (I don’t count the Peep-mobile in that category), but it does prove one thing: the Peep community has kowtowed to the Islamofascists by not entering a Osama Peep Laden or Mohammed the Peep-phet. Maybe someone from Denmark will come up with one….
I find it strangely amusing that the peeps watching the same-peep ceremony are all “hetero-peeps” or mixed peeps. Pink & yellow vs. both yellow. Makes me want to go out and buy the peeps that I didn’t get in the store the other day.
I didn’t even know there WAS Peep… um… Art.
Last night, my wife found other sites that use the peep as art. Not that it is unheard-of to use food as art, but I had not thought of it before.
By the by, what is with bunnies, chicks, and eggs at Easter anyway? I mean, does anyone know where these traditional “symbols” of resurrection originated? Are they widespread?
“Have you ever wondered where the celebration of the Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Christ acquired its unusual name and odd symbols of colored eggs and rabbits?
The answer lies in the ingenious way that the Christian church absorbed Pagan practices. After discovering that people were more reluctant to give up their holidays and festivals than their gods, they simply incorporated Pagan practices into Christian festivals. As recounted by the Venerable Bede, an early Christian writer, clever clerics copied Pagan practices and by doing so, made Christianity more palatable to pagan folk reluctant to give up their festivals for somber Christian practices.
http://altreligion.about.com/cs/alchemy/a/mpreviss.htm
Like the origin of Easter, the origin of the Easter Bunny has roots that go back to pre-Christian, Anglo-Saxon history. The holiday was originally a pagan celebration that worshipped the goddess Eastre (so even the name “Easter” comes from this pagan traditon). She was the goddess of fertility and springtime and her earthly symbol was the rabbit.
Thus the pre-Christian Anglo-Saxons worshipped the rabbit believing it to be Eastre’s earthly incarnation.
When the Anglo-Saxons were converted to Christianity, the pagan holiday, which occurred around the same time as the Christian memorial of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead, was combined with the Christian celebration and given the name Easter.
http://www.allaboutjesuschrist.org/o…-bunny-faq.htm”
http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=225699&highlight=bunny+egg
I coppied this.
I disliked the immoral peeps, but I liked the peep pope and that was an amazing grouping of peeps in that picture of that woman (no idea who she is).
Peeps are the BEST Easter treat. They are marshmellows covered in colored sugar and when they have been left out for a few days, well that is perfection. Some people like to eat the heads first, some people like to eat the limbs first, some people like to lick the sugar off first then eat the marshmellow,I personally like eating the head last because it is the best part.
“The Fellowship of the Peeps”:
http://www.lordofthepeeps.com/
Hehehe that was the weirdest thing ive ever seen done to peeps
Though I’m happy to be counted as one of Christ’s “peeps”, “The Last Peepster” didn’t make me smile. Without the text, it wouldn’t be any worse than Veggie Tales, but:
“And no, that yellow Peep in this tableau isn’t supposed to be Judas; rather, Walker wanted one female in the picture. So why is she gasping? Take a look at what’s being served for supper: Peeps. Now look closely at Jesus’ mouth. You’d gasp, too.”
??? I zoomed in and couldn’t see anything unusual about His mouth.
Joanne,
I gather you don’t like Veggie Tales.
I am curious as to why.
I didn’t say I didn’t like Veggie Tales. I get kind of nervous that they might make Jesus a cucumber, or s’thing, but as kids’ shows go, it’s ok. I’m somewhat grouchy about V.T for the very dumb reason that the blessing of our CCD kids at the end of one year’s journey was pre-empted by the 2nd grade viewing of a V.T movie, but like I said, that’s just one of those dumb things.
Soooo, the Last Peepster is about on par with Veggie Tales, if you overlook the text, which was obnoxious. 🙂 Veggie Tales text is never obnoxious.
VT is a big part of the limited viewing materials that our kids have access to.
Not all of the writing is great and some of the art is slipshod, but the humor is clean and affirming.
Frankly, there is so little out there that is geared to the very young and affirming of our beliefs.
If you have suggestions of other materials that we can get for them, I am all corn.
G-Veg,
I think VT might be the best that’s out there for little & middlin’ kids. That and the donutman. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-YnBp2ZI38) Beats Teletubbies, that’s for sure. Much easier to tolerate than the voice of Sponge Bob, too.
I did my Barney and Raffi time. I watched Disney/Dreamworks films only for 11 years. I have no regrets, but barring unusual circumstances, I won’t be re-traveling that route. Sorry I’m not much help.
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