MetaFilter posts tagged with easter and candy

Let's melt the f#$%ers down and make 'smores!

psmealey — Fri, 11 Apr 2003 05:38:48 -0800

Peeps! All about peeps! So sweet and chewy and cute all over. Apparently, they're not just for Easter anymore. They've come a long way since I got the little yellow guys in my Easter basket as a kid, apparently. I had no idea this company had gotten so far flung in its enterprise.

Full Metal Bonnet

sparky — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 08:47:17 -0800

Full Metal Bonnet Retailers Put All Their Grenades in One Basket: National retailers like Kmart and Walgreens have stocked their shelves with baskets in which the traditional chocolate rabbit centerpiece has been displaced by plastic military action figures and their make-believe lethal paraphernalia. Great quote: Packets of jellybeans are tossed in as if an afterthought, nestled in the cellophane underbrush like anti-personnel mines.

modularette — Sun, 08 Apr 2001 21:21:36 -0800

Just in time for the easter candyfest. I wonder how many people actually enjoy peeps.

tdecius — Tue, 12 Oct 1999 13:09:32 -0800

Ah, Peeps, those resilient little birds. This is a neat site on basic Peep science.