Whale-Sized Marshmallows Deployed to Thwart Japanese Whalers
Just Born — the makers of Marshmallow Peeps — says they’ll be producing whale-shaped, and whale-sized, Marshmallow Peeps in an effort to end Japanese whaling.
The Peep-maker said the joint effort is between Darryl Hannah, The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Greenpeace, and that they are uniting under the moniker PEEP: People for Everything and Everyone on the Planet.
PEEP will be using the marshmallow whale Peeps as decoys, hopefully tricking Japanese whalers into harpooning those instead of cute and cuddly whales. If successful, PEEP will look into other decoy opportunities. Baby seal Peeps are under strong consideration, especially with Canada’s seal hunt underway.
PEEP is Darryl Hannah’s brainchild.
Each Easter, Hannah and fellow gal-pal Drew Barrymore get together for a ritual Spring Cleaning. The tradition involves naming and nuking [microwaving] Marshmallow Peeps until they explode. The Peeps usually don names of prominent conservatives and members of the GOP. Last year when the Rush Limbaugh Peep kept getting bigger and fatter, and just wouldn’t die…Hannah had an idea.
The former mermaid had this to say, “Last Easter, after the Rush Limbaugh Peep broke Drew’s microwave, we joked…what if we covertly replaced prominent members of the GOP with Marshmallow Peeps. Like a McCain McPeep? So we actually tried making a few, but it just didn’t work out.”
“At first we tried making a Karl Rove Peep, but the mold kept turning out like that Emperor guy from Star Wars [the originals, not those crappy sequels],” she laughed. “The GOPeeps just weren’t working, it was really hard to get them right, and someone kept eating the Sarah Palin one!”
She said it was her work on Splash that gave her the idea of whale Peeps.
One obstacle, and the reason it took a year to develop the whale-sized Peeps, is that Peeps aren’t veggie friendly. “We wanted Greenpeace on our side.” Hannah said. “The last thing you wanna do is piss off a bunch of vegans from Greenpeace,” she warned.
Captain Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, said, “We will start deploying the whale Peeps when the ship leaves port next.” This is expected to happen sometime in June.
The whale Peeps will come in three flavors: pink, yellow and krill.
Source: Just Born, Inc.
Haha! Very nice…April Fools!
Based solely on the uncanny resemblance the PEEPs have to actual whales, I think this is destined for success.
Does anyone else see that its likely the peeps will simply desolve in the ocean? I mean, do we know what will happen when we dump a huge mound of sugar in the ocean?
Nice thoughts, funny article, but bad idea.
I think this is an april fools joke
Also, peeps are made out of gelatin. So it would be making decoy animals out of parts of dead animals.
Maeghan: it was obviously an April Fools joke and do you know how huge the ocean is? No amount of sugar you could imagine would affect anything if dumped in the ocean, you would need millions of tons of sugar.
I think this is an amazing idea. Not only will it prevent the slaughter of the whales, but the whalers will still have marshmallows to eat. Sounds like a win-win.
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I think this is an wonderful idea.
Why don’t you just mail them a marshmallow bag with a note saying “Please stop killing whales” ? They’ll be touched for sure. No, seriously, can someone tell me again why whale hunting is a problem? Are we back in the seal clubbing argument? Why is it ok to kill cows?