Candy Week: This One Goes Out To All My Peeps

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson

This week we're replaying some of our sweetest episodes of all time. In this episode from April 2019, we look at Peeps, which are the stuff of candy and cultural legend. Not only are there billions of them produced, eaten and/or used in dioramas every year, there's a PeepsMobile, a converted Volkswagen Beetle with a giant yellow Peep on top, and there's PeepResearch.org - an entire website devoted to researching what happens to the candies when you mess with them.

The sticky, sugary history of Peeps (Vox)

Emory pair unlocks the mystery of Peeps (Emory University)

RAM 10th Annual International PEEPS Art Exhibition (Racine Art Museum)