PEEPS are not Kosher!!!


How horrified I stood in RiteAid turning that box over and over looking for the Hechsher... It was not there! Give me a break...Peeps are about Easter, Easter is about Jesus, Jesus was a Jew...PEEPS SHOULD BE KOSHER! 


Just the little granules of sugar rolling around and the squishy peeps under the cellophane. Teasing me. The devil in marshmallow form.


The bliss of crunching through that granulated sugary shell, it almost hurts your teeth! The chew of the marshmallow. Your pancreas goes into overdrive, pumping out insulin to equalize the sweetness...you chew more, brain getting higher and higher from endorphins. Their is no stopping you now...you eat one peep after another, decimating their little cardboard home as you go.


AH! So good. A spring time ritual.


Gone, all gone because the bright yellow color might have some nasty non-kosher ingredient in it. My guess is it is the marshmallow though, probably from a gelatin base which gets too ugly for me to write here...it's really quite nauseating.


My keeping kosher  has impinged upon my junk food habits. (DORITO'S!!)..which needed some reigning in anyway. But like the belligerent child we all harbor inside of ourselves, I stamp my foot and threw a fit (It was quiet, no one but my husband heard my  rant) and then I put the Peeps back on the shelf. I keep Kosher now. 


I keep Kosher, so I made a commitment to eat kosher food. It's learning curve as I check bags for the "Kosher OK". Gleefully I find most of the things I use  are already Kosher, no biggie. But every once in a while, a Peep will pop up and test my willpower.


PS..don't feel too sorry for me. I left the store with a bag of Robin Egg Candy that I ate in 1/2 hour. Yes, I feel sick.