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20 Facts About Peeps That You Will Want to Read Before You Binge on Them This Easter

by N/A, 10 years ago | 2 min read

These addictive little sugar bombs seem to make their way into every holiday celebration, but they are a serious Easter favorite. Check out the facts below to learn more about Peeps. 

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1. Chocolate-covered Peeps arrived in stores in 2010.

That's enough peeps to circle the Earth twice. They're all made at the Just Born factory in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 

2. Bethlehem, PA drops a giant Peep on New Year's Eve.

It's in the shape of a chick and flashes different colors.

3. Yellow chicks are the original Peep and are the most popular.

Yellow bunny Peeps are the second most popular and pink is the second-best selling color. 

4. It used to take 27 hours to make a Peep.

They used to be made one by one with a pastry tube. Now that the process has been automated, it only takes 6 minutes to make a Peep. 

5. 29,882 Peeps are equal to the weight of One Direction.

This number was recently recalculated after Zayn Malik quit the band.

Which means that 7,118 Peeps are equal in weight to Zayn.
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Drown your sorrows in Peeps this Easter.

6. Peeps now makes milk.

Peeps formed a partnership with Prairie Farms to produce three different flavors of Peeps milk.They're only available in the midwest.

7. They were created on a machine called "The Depositor."

When Just Born CEO Sam Born decided to automate the process of creating Peeps, his son developed a secret piece of machinery called "The Depositor." The manufacturing plan recently underwent a renovation and the Depositor was changed too. 

8. The new machinery might mean new kinds of Peeps can be created.

“The investment in our marshmallow making process will allow for more efficiency, more consistency, improved quality, and additional innovation capabilities,” co-CEO Ross Born told Candy Industry magazine. The new depositor might be able to make more shapes. 

9. 5.5 million Peeps are made everyday.

That's enough peeps to circle the Earth twice. They're all made at the Just Born factory in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 

10. Peeps-scented lip balm exists.
11. Sugar-free Peeps do exist.

They appeared in stores in 2007. 

12. The Peeps recipe hasn't changed.

Granulated sugar, liquid sugar, and corn syrup are boiled and then gelatin and vanilla flavoring are added to it. 

13. The eye can survive anything.

Researchers from Emory University set out to prove whether or not Peeps were indestructible in 1999 and found that they were stronger than sulphuric acid, tap water, acetone and boiling water. When they put Peeps up against the chemical Phenol, the only thing that survived were the eyes. 

14. Peeps come in all kinds of flavors.

You can buy birthday cake, strawberry, blue raspberry,  sour  watermelon, candy cane and sweet lemonade flavors. 

15. They're the most popular non-chocolate Easter candy.

1.5 billion are consumed every Spring.

16. Peeps used to have wings.

Their wings were removed in 1955 to give them a more modern look. 

17. Mike and Ikes are Just Born's best-selling candy.
18. The eyes are the final touch.

They're made from carnauba, an edible wax that's non-toxic.  

19. Many different Peep's competitions exist.

The Washington Posts' Peeps Diorama Contest has been around for nine years. 

20. Approximately 2 billion Peeps were produced in 2014.
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