Ducky Devilish Sticky/Logic by Tommia Wright

I should have known better. When someone mentioned they had dark chocolate available, with only a Peep attached to it, I should have left well enough alone.

I have only had one other dealing with peeps and should have kept it at that. Not that I was in the creative mood to enter the contest this year since I’m insanely trying other things so far.

No – I dared to eat a Peep – chocolate and all.

The texture does not come close to a marshmallow at all. At least one knows what to expect with a marshmallow – the consistent softness, the fluidity of sweetness that melts in your mouth properly.

With this ‘doesn’t it look cute’ shape of…I think it was a duck…  I went from chocolate to supposed marshmallow to brittle sugar that felt worse than a mouthful of sand. Rather than it dissolving, the peep morphed into something grittier, nastier and harder to get rid of. And  this was just the beak! All the while, those around me kept saying how they had wonderful memories of this treat, how they were making plans to finish a package or two or three – wee!

What – the peep?!?

I finished the whole thing, the chocolate long forgotten and sorely missed, the wishful visit to a dentist spinning in the back of my mind – at least that level of torment makes sense and has a clean, healthy result.

The peep? Given the influx of sugar in my system, the rest of my morning did not bode well – hands shaking, vision askew, words misheard, and my talking a hundred miles a minute versus the usual 1 mpm. (It didn’t help me that I forgot to eat breakfast that day and a cup of tea only takes you so far). Five bottles of water, four teas and two oranges later – followed by a small lunch – I think I was closer to normal.

Then I was told the ‘abnormal fact’ – peeps do best with those under the age of eight. Great. I’m older than that; should have been smarter than that; certainly shouldn’t have tried that peep.

It will be my one and only, another silly item to check off the list of ‘first time/last time’ items.

What discoveries have you made lately?