Randy Cassingham's Blog

Posted by Robin Tallahassee on April 25, 2011:

You are having WAY too much fun! The sitting in their own sugar is priceless. I want to grow up and be you..... or at least grow up and have your job.... but then again I don't ever want to "grow up".... so I'll just continue enjoying reading what you write.

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Yep, this is a fun job. There certainly are headaches and stress moments, but all in all, it's a fun job because I designed it to be, and enough people have responded to it to make it pay. I call it "The New American Dream"! -rc

Posted by Mike from Dallas on April 25, 2011:

Was going to get Peeps for Easter, but couldn't find any that were cage-, hormone- & antibiotics-free. Demand organic Peeps!

The laughing started there. And just continued on through the responses. But you do realize, of course, don't you, that you're going to suffer some nasty "unsubscribes" from those who feel that it's a slam on their Holy Cause (whichever Holy Cause, since it's a combination of three or four readily identifiable ones).

"All Great Truths start out as blasphemies." ~George Bernard Shaw

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Yeah, I realize that I'm treading on sacred ground -- you know how holy marshmallow chicks are, I know (not to mention the Holy Bunny and its Multicolored Eggs), but I'll just have to take that chance in my lifelong pursuit of Ultimate Truth. Oh, and Shaw was pretty darned wise sometimes! -rc

Posted by Allan, Fontana CA on April 25, 2011:

My heritage is Jewish, and my wife's heritage is Catholic. Neither of us is observant. Our kids are now grown (the youngest is 22). However, several of my wife's relatives are very observant, and some of their kids are teenagers... so of course we have an Easter Egg hunt. This year, for the first time, the hunt was at my new home.

(My side of the family has a long history of traditions celebrated on Christian holidays. For instance, every year we used to get together on Christmas to put together a jigsaw puzzle.)

Because of an incident that happened on Easter long ago, we don't ever use "real" eggs. (One year we hid 40 eggs, we found 38 eggs. The next year we hid 40 eggs and found 41 eggs, but one of them was quite disgusting.) Instead, we find hollow plastic eggs, and fill them with candy, and in a few of them, we add a little bit of money.

Since my wife and I were going to host this year, I decided to find some "Passover eggs" -- all I had in mind was some Easter Eggs with a Star Of David on the side, or maybe a picture of matzo, or even people wearing Yarmulkes. Alternatively, we would by plain eggs and some Jewish decals.

Shockingly, there is no such thing as a "Passover egg" and I simply couldn't find the decals I wanted.

Am I really the only person in United States that would have purchased such a product?

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You might want to patent it immediately! Know any good lawyers? -rc

Posted by John, Tulsa, OKLAHOMA on April 25, 2011:

Randy, would it be considered cruel to bite the heads off of my peeps?

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Cruel, no. But be sure to look up the original ("carnival") meaning of the word geek. -rc

Posted by Ana-Marie, San Francisco on April 25, 2011:

Totally proud my "sugar" comment made you laugh. :-) I found your whole peeps posting very funny. Confession: I never eat peeps (or fruit cakes), I just pass them on to others.

Thanks for the Easter joy.

Posted by Ellen, West Bloomfield, MI on April 25, 2011:

Passover eggs? Yes, there IS such a thing. We use (roasted) eggs on our Seder plate as part of the ritual meal the first 2 nights!

How about a kosher Cadbury (Easter) egg?

Posted by Laurie, California on April 25, 2011:

I stock up on peeps after Easter and let them get stale until camping season. They make great s'mores with the added bonus of grossing out my husband.

Posted by Ken, New York on April 25, 2011:

To Allan, Fontana CA: My wife and I are in a similar "mixed" marriage, and I can tell you that, along with the kids, we've made Easter/Passover eggs with with yarmulkes and stars of David. It just takes a little creativity and wax pencils.

Posted by Ann in Northern Virginia on April 26, 2011:

(Picture of matzoh? What would a picture of a matzoh look like? Like a portrait of a cracker?)

Anyhow, I thought this was a very fun thread, totally goofball have-to-work-on-Sunday silliness. Peeps are such cheerful little balls of blech, whether pink, blue or yellow. (Collect them all!)

My mother loved them, at least in her waning, dementia-addled years, not sure about earlier when she had a lick o' sense, I myself have a major sweet tooth and still won't/can't sink it in one of these treats. Must be those GMOs and Auntie Biotix, but those things don't taste at all NATCHR'L -- the wrapper is more convincingly FOOD than the product. But they ARE cute, bright, happy little goodies, gotta give 'em that! Just LOOK, don't touch, and DON'T EAT!! (ew ick!)

Posted by rewinn, Mercer Island on April 28, 2011:

Is this a trial balloon for your new newsletter: This Is Peep???

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Man, I thought you people liked me. But you want me to do more work? I'd be dead within the month. -rc