Peep This

While on R&R leave from our deployment to Afghanistan, my husband and I stopped in to Walmart to get a few things.  In the check-out line I noticed they were advertising chocolate Peeps.  I commented to my husband that I wondered if they were Peeps dipped in chocolate, or chocolate flavored.  The guy behind the register looked like, on his coolest day, a W.O.W. buff and piped up that they were pretty gross.  Then he said, “You want to know the only good thing about Peeps?”  My husband and I asked what that was and he replied, “Watching them explode in the microwave!  It’s so fun, they just explode everywhere!”  Taking our speechlessness for interest, he proceeded to tell us how he once sprayed them down with PAM prior to blowing them up to make the mess easier to clean up, but he didn’t recommend it as it caught his microwave on fire.  He then went on to tell us how his favorite candy was gummy bears, and that his girlfriend bought him a 1 pound gummy bear for his birthday.  She was going to spring for the 5 pounder but she couldn’t spare the $30.  At this point, I was just impressed he had a living, breathing girlfriend.