Solar Cooking Marshmallow Creatures

Peeps have long been used as subjects in cruel science experiments. Below is a link to a 1999 middle school solar cooker project -- using, you guessed it, a familiar-looking marshallow being.

http://www.coldwater.k12.mi.us/lms/planetarium/stuff/solar-bbq.html

Fortunately, the Peep seems to have prevailed, at least in the first experiment that was conducted.

Seattle Peeps Contest

You've gotta love a city with an annual Peeps contest.

See link below to the March 27, 2009, Seattle Times story, entitled
"Last Call for Peeps!" (Entries are due today (March 30, at 5 p.m. Pacific)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2008849897_peeps13.html?cmpid=2628

While you're there, check out their "Peeps Parade" (more than 100 images/entries).