Easter Candy Face-Off

Easter is fast approaching, and with Easter comes… bunnies?… chicks?… guilty once-a-year church going? Yes, perhaps all of these things, but the thing that is most synonymous with Easter to me (because I’m just that deep and spiritual) is candy.

Of course, every holiday has its good candy and its bad candy. At Christmas, there are the delicious homemade cookies to counteract the brick-like green-cherried weirdness that is fruitcake. At Halloween the peanut-butter flavored taffy sits at the bottom of the bag, passed over in favor of fun-sized Snickers bars. For Valentine’s day, I always used to make “art” projects with the chalky heart candies, but the cream filled chocolates managed to get eaten.

Easter has perhaps the widest disparity between awesome treat and disgusting treat: Peeps vs. Cadbury Creme Eggs. How could two such treats exist on the same plane, and, verily, even in the same Easter basket? If you know me at all, you’ll know the treat that gets my undying love is the Cadbury Creme Egg. My husband thinks they’re gross, I think because of the gooey insides, but I think they’re genius. It’s an egg, but it’s candy! Amazing.

The Peep, however, while an Easter staple for sure, will never be a favorite of mine. The eyes creep me out a little, for one thing. And every time I see a Peep, I think about the time in chemistry class in high school when we put peeps in a vacuum and they did strange and unnatural things. Yuck, no thank you.

So what’s your favorite candy, Easter or otherwise? (And do Peeps creep you out, too, or is that just me? Come on, I know it can’t be just me.)

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