peep show

The wait is over, it's Peep season again! The stores are stocked with our favorite little cellophane packages of marshmallow-y goodness. 

Peep Fun Facts:

- In 1953, it took 27 hours to create one marshmallow Peep. Today, it takes six minutes.

- More than 5 million Peeps are produced each day.

- Peeps have been the most popular non-chocolate Easter candy in the United States for more than a decade. Take that, jelly beans.

- The first Peeps were squeezed out one at a time out of a pastry tube and the eyes were painted on by hand. Now, machines create 3,500 Peeps' eyes per minute.

- Each Peep has 32 calories and 0 fat grams.

- Yellow Peeps are the most popular, followed by pink, lavender, blue, then white.

This year The Washington Post held it's 2nd annual Peeps Diorama Contest and drew in more than 800 sugar-filled entries. Here are some of the entries and may I say, bra-vo.