Remembring Easter "peeps"

[packman]

Younger days, 5 & 10 store counter filled with peeps and me begging parents to allowed to buy them.



Thank Gawd they (I think, stopped this)

Remember keeping it in a small box, playing with it until it got older than my Grandmother tying it to a string in the kitchen, later taking it outside to roam - THEN - one day it was gone. Chicken dinner, can't remember that.

[Walleye]

1. We got some ducklings one year. They went on to be a grown pair of ducks.had some duck eggs to eat

[secondwind]

2. Wasn't the coloring harmful to the chicks?

I have a vague recollection of this.

Pls correct me if I’m wrong. Thanks

[BlackSkimmer]

3. Horrible.

I’ve raised chickens for years, and I love them dearly.

People were in for a rude wake up call when they got them home and saw the mess they can make. Never mind how much warmth and attention they need.

Sickens me to even remember that time.

[packman]

4. Agree- horrible practice

[lagomorph777]

5. I thought you meant these:

I didn't realize they used to sell actual live chicks for kids!

These are, of course, not for eating; you microwave them and watch them inflate hilariously.



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[I_UndergroundPanther]

8. I like how peeps taste

Especially when stale.

[lagomorph777]

10. EEEEEeeeeeeewwwwww!

[Demovictory9]

9. they did... probably all male chicks. The farms were always giving away males

[SYFROYH]

6. I went to Easter Egg Hunt at a friend of family home -- they gave live young bunnies to all the kids

I had to politely decline and blamed my HOA.

[rsdsharp]

7. When my little sister was in second grade her class got a baby chick for some reason.

On Good Friday the class was to have a drawing to determine which kid got to take home the chick to be his or her very own. The Tuesday before Easter our father died, so the class unanimously voted to give my sister the chick.

As we were sitting down to dinner that Friday, her teacher delivered the chick to the front door. It was all very touching until we had to devise some way to keep it warm. We never did figure out how to stop the incessant peeping 24 hours a day.

After about a week, we gave it to our cousin who had a farm.