Future Peeps Flavors

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Apr 162017
 

10 Future Peeps Flavors That Are Totally Real

10 Future Peeps Flavors That Are Totally Real

Easter can get a whole lot better with Chardonnay Peeps!

From Bon Appétit:

This is the way the world ends: Not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a Peep. The Pennsylvania-based Just Born company has been producing this Easter basket staple for more than 60 years. They currently churn out 2 billion Peeps annually. That’s about six Peeps for every American—more than enough to trigger a bout of corn syrup-induced narcolepsy.

These irresistible marshmallow candies traditionally resemble chicks and bunnies. Once upon a time, they came in just one flavor: sugar. But in recent years, the Peeps product line has multiplied like (squishy, tooth-achingly sweet) rabbits. Now you can choose from tempting varieties like Sour Watermelon, Fruit Punch, Blue Raspberry, Cotton Candy, Bubble Gum, Party Cake—not Birthday Cake, never Birthday Cake, how dare you—Sweet Lemonade, dark chocolate-dipped Blueberry Delight, and ganache-filled Triple Chocolate. (This to say nothing of non-edible Peeps merch like jewelry, earbuds, socks, sidewalk chalk, toddler-sized bucket hats, adult-sized bucket hats, and three-foot-tall bunny plushes.)

What unearthly confections will Just Born deliver into this realm next? Consider this a visit from the Ghost of Easter Future.

Doritos Locos Peeps

Orange-stained fingers aren’t just a symptom of certain chips anymore. Now sweets can ruin your white furniture, too. Besides, it’s high time Taco Bell expanded its dessert offerings beyond the Caramel Apple Empanada. (Coming in 2018: Mountain Dew Baja Blast Peeps.)

Chicken Nugget Peeps

If you stick a pair of beady wax eyes onto a humble McNug, you’re 80% of the way to a Peep as it is. Of the four standard nugget shapes, I’d recommend the boot—which vaguely resembles a baby bird, if you squint and/or wish hard enough—over the bell, ball, or bone.

Dayquil Peeps

A multifunctional treat in an appropriate neon-orange shade. (Do not operate heavy machinery after consuming this Peep. Do not exceed four Peeps within 24 hours.)

Activated Charcoal Peeps

An absorbent pitch-black—well, charcoal-black—Peep that’ll remind you of a s’more gone horribly wrong and may help combat diarrhea and gas, which seems fitting.

Sriracha Peeps

Given that there’s already a rooster on the bottle, a hot sauce-infused Peep seems like a logical next step. Better yet, you can film your oblivious children taking a bite of the bright-red chick (tell them it’s red velvet—which, yup, is already a Peeps flavor) and send the footage into Jimmy Kimmel Live for an inevitable prank segment.

Wheatgrass Peeps

Finally, you can justify blending Peeps directly into your smoothies. Such is the magic of wellness.

Chardonnay Peeps

A plummy, oak-aged chick with notes of pear and corn syrup. Perfect for the parents of sugar-crazed children on Easter morning.

Salt and Vinegar Peeps

Why shouldn’t your favorite Easter treat be as high in sodium as it is in sugar?

Glazed Easter Ham Peeps

Comes complete with miniature Peeps-sized cherries and pineapple rings.

Almond Peeps Milk

Springtime has heralded the arrival of Peeps Milk in the more adventurous of supermarket fridges for a few years now, in fresh-from-the-dairy flavors like Eggnog and Strawberry Créme. But why shouldn’t the lactose intolerant among us be able to enjoy diabetes in its purest liquid form?

Pumpkin Spice Peeps

I wrote “Pumpkin Spice Peeps” as a joke (goes perfectly with a pair of marshmallow-soft Ugg boots, am I right?), but I have since discovered that they are real. Very real. Pumpkin Spice Peeps are an actual product, released alongside Caramel Apple and Candy Corn as part of an autumn-themed Peeps line. Just Born, you have bested me. I am dead, and you may take my bones and boil them into gelatin.

 

 

The Terrifying True Scale Of Nuclear Bombs

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Apr 142017
 

The True Scale of Nuclear Bombs Is Totally Frightening

The True Scale Of Nuclear Bombs

Nuclear bombs are already scary enough, but when you dig deeper and find out how powerful the weapons truly are, they get even more terrifying. The weapons we’ve built after the first atomic bombs are so strong that you can basically use Hiroshima as a unit of measurement. The largest nuclear explosion in human history, the Tsar Bomba, detonated with a force of 50 megatons or the power of 3,333 Hiroshimas.

The Russians had another bomb planned that would have been double the force of the Tsar Bomba at 100 megatons (and 6,666 times the force of Hiroshima) but luckily they never tested it. I mean, the Tsar Bomba was already as scarily powerful as it can get, since it almost destroyed the plane that dropped it and shattered windows as far as Norway and Finland. (The bomb was tested at Novaya Zemlya in Northern Russia).

Even something like the B83 bomb (which is the largest nuke in the US arsenal) explodes with a mushroom cloud taller than where commercial airlines fly. The true scale of nuclear weapons is really something, man. Learn more about it with this video by Real Life Lore, which also shows what kind of damage these nukes would do if they were dropped on New York City.

Nuclear weapons have come a long way and come in all types of different sizes. Some are relatively small while others are enormous, so big they boggle the mind at what they can be capable of. This video analyzes the sizes and impacts of various different nuclear devices, the history of nuclear weapons and what countries in the world are in possession of such devices.

Tsar Bomba, 1961 Tsar Bomba, 1961

 
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The Story Of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

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Apr 092017
 

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A popular chocolate cup filled with delicious peanut butter, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups were created by a man named Harry Burnett (H.B.) Reese. Reese was born May 24, 1879 in Pennsylvania to a farming family. He married in 1900 and went on to have sixteen children. (Yes, 16!) By 1903, not surprisingly, he was struggling to support his growing family, so took on all manner of jobs from butcher to factory worker.

In 1917, Reese found an advertisement to work on a dairy farm owned by Milton S. Hershey, owner of the Hershey Chocolate Company, in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Though he didn’t know it at the time, taking the job would shape the rest of Reese’s future. He worked on the farm for several years and later began working in the company’s chocolate factory, where he became inspired by Hershey and set out to make his own chocolates.

Initially, Reese considered his chocolate venture to be a means of providing a little extra money for his family. He started creating confections in his basement, naming bars and candies after his many children. He used fresh ingredients for his candy creations, along with a large quantity of Hershey’s chocolate.

In the 1920s, Reese’s basement-born enterprise was doing much better than expected, with the candies selling successfully to the local market. He decided to take the business even more seriously and set up the H.B. Reese Candy Company. In 1928, Reese also started selling chocolate and peanut butter confections he simply called peanut butter cups or “penny cups” as they cost just one penny each at the time. They were so successful that Reese was able to sell five-pound boxes of the cups to local retailers for their candy displays.

Reese was soon able to quit his job at the Hershey factory to concentrate on his own business. He even built a 100,000 square foot factory on Chocolate Avenue in Hershey, Pennsylvania, making a wide assortment of candies including raisin clusters and chocolate covered dates. However, during World War II, Reese was forced to abandon his other projects due to scarcity of supplies and economic hardship. He chose to focus solely on his peanut butter cups, which were his most popular product, and the investment paid off.

Unfortunately, as his cups were growing rapidly in popularity, Reese died unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1956, just a few days before his 77th birthday. Seven years later, six of Reese’s sons decided to sell the family business. The Hershey’s Chocolate Company, that had inspired Reese, purchased the H.B. Reese Candy Company for $23.5 million in 1963 with H.B. Reese’s children getting roughly a five percent share in the Hershey Company (which is today worth about $20B, 5% of which is $1B).

Reese’s Cups continued to prosper under Hershey’s. There have been dozens of variations on the candy, including “big cups,” miniatures, and minis, as well as dark chocolate, white chocolate, caramel, marshmallow, and hazelnut cream flavours. Other variations include Reese’s cookies, Reese’s Pieces, and Reese’s Puffs Cereal (of the “It’s Reese’s for breakfast!” fame—promoting “healthy” breakfast options for children everywhere).

The candy is now available in many countries around the world and enjoyed by millions of people every year. Starting from its humble beginnings in the basement of a determined entrepreneur just looking for a way to support his enormous family, it’s now an extremely popular candy, counted among the top ten favourite chocolate treats in the U.S.

 
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