Peeps in Louisiana – 7 Facts About the Candy We Love to Hate

How can you tell it's almost Easter in Louisiana? Well, from Abbeville to Shreveport and Tallulah to Lake Charles and everywhere in between almost every car in the state is covered in a thin coating of yellow. And on Monday morning our trash cans stink because of the crawfish we boiled over the weekend.

Another way you can tell it's almost Easter in Louisiana is that your favorite stores are all featuring candy that you might not ever buy if it weren't for that darn rabbit. Yes, there are chocolate bunnies-a-plenty. There are eggs filled with peanut butter and whatever that goo is they put in a Cadbury Egg.

And of course, there are Peeps. You know Peeps, right? Answer us honestly if you see Peeps in your Easter basket are you happy or not thrilled at all? The fact is that Peeps are a candy that is so popular that part of their popularity is because of the way people despise them.
Sure they don't like Peeps but somebody keeps buying them making Peeps the most popular non-chocolate candy sold around Easter. According to Just Born, the makers of Peeps, they sell about two billion of them every year. Yes, with a "b" billion. That's enough Peeps to circle the globe twice.

But how much do you really know about this candy that will somehow find its way into your home over the next week or so? We have done some digging and found seven very interesting facts about Peeps that you might not be privy to, at least until now.

Just try not to act like a know-it-all around your family when you start spouting this information out as they are carving the ham on Easter Sunday.