Easter Math
So Peeps™ were on sale at the grocery store yesterday, a box of 20 for $0.64 US. There's something compelling about a Peep™ to me - like Cadbury's Creme Eggs™, they are incredibly gross, and yet I feel myself drawn to them once a year, to their crunchy neon sugar skins and their gooey marshmallow guts. It's like a temporary Easter madness.
In short, I bought three boxes.
Not that I am going to eat three boxes of Peeps™. They are just sort of nice to have around. Comforting. And fun to share, too, because nobody really wants them, and yet everyone takes them, and in college once we ate the backs off a flotilla of Peeps™ Chicks (Peeps™ is the family, which contains a multitude of species, including Chicks and Bunnies) and stuck them to an unsuspecting housemate's door. Took forever to get them off once we'd had our laughs; Peeps™ are tenacious.
In any case . . . last night, I ate two of the Peeps™ before bed. And since I am trying to fit back into my @#$%^&*! wedding dress, I checked to see how far (calorically) two Peeps™ might set a girl back.
The "serving size" for Peeps™ is FOUR.
Four Peeps™ are approximately 130 calories of fat-free candy nasty.
And, of course, I instantly translated that into "beer units" - the number of beers one might consume for an equal amount of calories.
Four Peeps™ are roughly equal to one beer.
Therefore, I concluded, you'd have to eat a whole damn box of the things to get drunk.
Happy belated Easter.
In short, I bought three boxes.
Not that I am going to eat three boxes of Peeps™. They are just sort of nice to have around. Comforting. And fun to share, too, because nobody really wants them, and yet everyone takes them, and in college once we ate the backs off a flotilla of Peeps™ Chicks (Peeps™ is the family, which contains a multitude of species, including Chicks and Bunnies) and stuck them to an unsuspecting housemate's door. Took forever to get them off once we'd had our laughs; Peeps™ are tenacious.
In any case . . . last night, I ate two of the Peeps™ before bed. And since I am trying to fit back into my @#$%^&*! wedding dress, I checked to see how far (calorically) two Peeps™ might set a girl back.
The "serving size" for Peeps™ is FOUR.
Four Peeps™ are approximately 130 calories of fat-free candy nasty.
And, of course, I instantly translated that into "beer units" - the number of beers one might consume for an equal amount of calories.
Four Peeps™ are roughly equal to one beer.
Therefore, I concluded, you'd have to eat a whole damn box of the things to get drunk.
Happy belated Easter.
posted by The Stute Fish at 17:43
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