This is what I’m talking about!
P E E P W A L D O R F S A L A D
Best made with pink or yellow peeps. Lavender ones make the salad grayish …
10 Peeps, whole
3 just ripe bananas, 1/2-inch dice
2 large navel oranges, sectioned, 1/2-inch pieces, and juice from one more
12 maraschino cherries, halved
1/2 cup shredded coconut
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 tablespoon orange-flavored liqueur
1/4 cup finely chopped macadamias, pecans or almonds
Mix all the ingredients, allow to macerate for a couple of hours, stirring a few times.
Serve as dessert with coconut cookies.
The thing that I like about Christianity is how they appropriated pagan symbols and traditions and turned them into tacky arts & crafts, recipes, and the like. The mere existence of Peeps is testament to the creative mind of the Christian. Jewish holidays are very specific, and there’s not a lot of decorating. Christian holidays, on the other hand take suggestions from our pagan ancestors and turn them into things like this:
The Enshrined Peep:
the NASCAR/Coke basket:
Nothing says “Easter” like a good old-fashioned fairy lynching:
Forget Peter Cottontail hopping down the bunny trail… today’s modern rabbit rides a chopper (this one is 7 feet long and inflatable)
Although my mother had a brief obsession with coloring eggs, we never really celebrated any spring holidays. My grandmother attempted to kidnap me a couple of years, buy me an easter bonnet with matching gloves (thus starting my irrational hatred for all gloves, winter, dress-up, and otherwise) and make me go to Mass. I think this may have lasted 2 or 3 years until she realized that I was doomed to hell and no amount of Easter pageantry would stop that.
But, today is like any other day now, except all the grocery stores are closed so I can’t pick up some more laundry soap. Alas. My laundry will not be re-born into purity this weekend.
