Peeps? Yuck! Those things are disgusting!

Basically, all they are is pure sugar. For the most part they are just marshmallows, and here are the ingredients of marshmallows:
corn syrup, sugar, modified food starch, dextrose, water, pork-skin gelatin, tetrasodium pyrophosphate, artificial flavor, natural flavor (of what I can't imagine), and blue #1.
Three of the top four ingredients are kinds of sugar, and the other is a starch which becomes sugar when your enzymes break it down. Then add to this a pure sugar candy-coating, and you've got Peeps
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I don't really know what I'm trying to prove here, since I'm hardly nutritionally mindful of what I eat myself. I guess if they tasted good to me I'd eat them regardless. Maybe I'm lucky that they don't?

Peep jousting sure is fun though!
