{"id":14293,"date":"2014-04-20T13:08:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T17:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=14293"},"modified":"2014-04-20T13:54:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T17:54:11","slug":"easter-week-2014-its-a-peeps-party-and-i-brought-the-chicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=14293","title":{"rendered":"Easter Week 2014: It’s a Peeps Party and I Brought the Chicks!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CC_Peeps<\/p>\n

Happy Easter everyone!\u00a0 Today I am going to cover a range of the always-classic Easter treat of marshmallow Peeps.\u00a0 For anyone curious about the history of the brand I would like to recommend my write-up from last year which covered the\u00a0Peeps 50th Anniversary celebration from 2003<\/a>.\u00a0 So now let’s get to the Easter 2014 Peeps Party!<\/p>\n

Almost everything I have to show today are items that were available this year.\u00a0 Before I get to them, here is a look back at how Peeps and Peeps packaging appeared in the 1970’s, when I first encountered them in my own youth.<\/p>\n

\"Just

Just Born \u2013 Easter Mallows \u2013 Marshmallow Peeps \u2013 candy trade ad \u2013 1978<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Rodda

Rodda \u2013 Just Born \u2013 Marshmallow Peeps package tray \u2013 1970\u2032s<\/p><\/div>\n

Those are Peeps I remember from my own childhood.\u00a0 Now let’s get the party started.<\/p>\n

As most of you will know, Peeps are available all-year round in various forms and each major holiday tends to get its own special versions.\u00a0 For Easter this year I picked up a cool “party pack” of standard Peeps but in a full rainbow of colors.\u00a0 From the folks at IT’SUGAR — here’s their giant Peeps Party Pack <\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps Party Pack – IT’SUGAR<\/a> – March 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

Those Peeps packs do look ready to party, so I set them loose (but not completely loose) for a few photos.<\/p>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps – Rainbow Peeps Party shots – Easter 2014 – A<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps – Rainbow Peeps Party shots – Easter 2014 – B<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps – Rainbow Peeps Party shots – Easter 2014 – C<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps – Rainbow Peeps Party shots – Easter 2014 – D<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps – Rainbow Peeps Party shots – Easter 2014 – E<\/p><\/div>\n

I may have gotten a little indulgent with all of the Peeps Party photos, but they just make for such strong visuals with their color variations, it’s hard not to have fun with them.<\/p>\n

Multi-colored Peeps also get put on sticks these days and make for a Rainbow Peeps Pop!<\/p>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps Rainbow Pop and Friends – Easter 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

Next up we’re going to take a look at a trio of new limited edition flavors for Peeps introduced in 2014.\u00a0 They include an orange cream flavored variety, and regular readers to this site will know that I love orange cream flavored confections<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Here they are:<\/p>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps – Orange Creme, Strawberry Creme and Vanilla Creme – 2014 Easter Limited Editions<\/p><\/div>\n

The only place I found the limited edition creme-flavored Peeps was at Target, so they may have been an exclusive for 2014.\u00a0 Of course I saved the wrappers for my Peeps packaging collection:<\/p>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps – Orange Creme Limited Edition – 1 1\/8 oz Easter candy package – March 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps – Strawberry Creme Limited Edition – 1 1\/8 oz Easter candy package – March 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps – Vanilla Creme Limited Edition – 1 1\/8 oz Easter candy package – March 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

Those limited editions were all delicious and the way they were packaged is just like the way that dipped Peeps are found.\u00a0 So let’s next take a look at the variety of chocolate-dipped Peeps I was able to find this year:<\/p>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps – Peeps Dipped in Chocolate Assortment – Easter 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps – Chocolate Mousse dipped in Dark Chocolate – New – 1.5 oz Easter candy package – March 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps – Chocolate Mousse dipped in Milk Chocolate – New – 1.5 oz Easter candy package – March 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps – Milk Chocolate Dipped Marshmallow – 1.5 oz Easter candy package – March 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps – Dark Chocolate Dipped Marshmallow – 1.5 oz Easter candy package – March 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

And here’s a wrapper I saved from a sugar-free Peeps pack:<\/p>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps – Sugar-Free Marshmallow Chicks – 1 oz Easter candy package – March 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

Another Peeps product that lends itself to today’s theme is a fairly new flavor called Party Cake:<\/p>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps – Peeps Party Cake – 10 Chicks pack – March 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps – Party Cake flavored marshmallow – 10 Chicks – 3 oz candy package wrapper – March 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

Peeps entered the Kinder-Egg realm with this next item I have to show.\u00a0 It’s a hollow chocolate egg that contains a Peep inside.\u00a0 Pretty neat!<\/p>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps – Hollow Milk Chocolate Egg with a Peeps Chick inside – Easter package – March 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

Those are the Peeps chicks I have to share today, but it’s not everything I’ve got.\u00a0 It’s Easter after all so I also have a few fun Peeps Bunnies items to showcase!<\/p>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps – Chocolate Mousse Marshmallow Bunnies pack photo – March 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps – Chocolate Mousse flavored marshmallow bunnies – 2 3\/8 oz Easter candy package – March 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps – Marshmallow Bunnies – Easter 3-pack photo – March 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps – Marshmallow Bunnies – 3 3\/8 oz Easter candy package wrapper – March 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s the wrapper package for a single pack giant Bunny:<\/p>\n

\"Just

Just Born – Peeps – Marshmallow Bunny – 1 1\/8 oz Easter candy package wrapper – March 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

Last but not least, a pair of shots of classic Easter Peeps Bunnies in a trio of colors:<\/p>\n

\"Just

Just Born Peeps Bunnies multi-packs – Easter 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Just

Just Born Peeps Bunnies multi-packs – Easter 2014-B<\/p><\/div>\n

And that’s everything I’ve got to share on the Peeps Party that is Easter 2014.\u00a0 I hope you guys enjoyed it and enjoyed all of our Easter Week 2014 coverage.\u00a0 We’ll see you next time!<\/p>\n

[Note:\u00a0 I tried to create a Peeps Party animated GIF for today’s post, but it didn’t turn out exactly as I envisioned.\u00a0 Even so, I decided to still include it as today’s parting image.]<\/p>\n

\"Peeps

Peeps Party animated GIF – Easter 2014<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy Easter everyone!\u00a0 Today I am going to cover a range of the always-classic Easter treat of marshmallow Peeps.\u00a0 For anyone curious about the history of the brand I would like to recommend my write-up from last year which covered … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,158,50],"tags":[321,316,328,351,332,14,324,78,333,1219,799,29,140,221,21,800,15,348,11],"class_list":["post-14293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","category-easter","category-holiday-2","tag-candy-collecting","tag-candy-collection","tag-candy-collector","tag-candy-wrapper-collection","tag-candy-wrapper-collector","tag-collectible","tag-collecting-candy","tag-confectionery","tag-confections","tag-easter","tag-easter-candy","tag-holiday","tag-limited-edition","tag-marshmallow","tag-packaging","tag-peeps","tag-sweets","tag-vintage-candy-wrapper","tag-wrapper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aFGk-3Ix","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14293"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14337,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14293\/revisions\/14337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}