Hanging With My Peeps!

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I love peeps! I like them stale and I prefer the flat bunnies to the rounded chicks.  That’s probably more than you wanted to know…lol…but read on for more weird facts about peeps!

The first Peeps took a long time to make…  

Today, Peeps chicks are produced at a breakneck speed of six minutes each. If six minutes for one marshmallow doesn’t sound all that impressive, it’s because you don’t know how long the process used to take.

In 1953, Just Born, the candy company who made Peeps a household name, was looking to acquire the Rodda Candy Company, mostly because of its jelly bean technology. But on a tour of that factory, the Born family noticed something that piqued their interest that had nothing to do with jelly beans. Just Born vice president Matt Pye told USA Today, “… while the family was touring the Rodda Candy Company, in the back part of the factory were these women with pastry tubes squirting these marshmallow chicks by hand.” But this was no quick process — it took 27 hours from start to finish to make these marshmallow chicks, thanks to the very lengthy cooling time required before the candy could be packaged.

Once Just Born acquired the company, they immediately set about automating the Peeps-making process, which included a faster dry time, and have managed to shave 21 hours off the operation. Now that you have all the facts, six minutes seems party darn fast, doesn’t it?

Is there really car wax in Peeps?

You may have heard a rumor that carnauba wax, an ingredient in some candy, is the very same ingredient used in car wax — and it is, indeed. However, it’s probably not as bad as it sounds.

Not only is carnauba wax approved by the FDA for human consumption, but according to Snopes, the amount used in candy is so minuscule that it simply cannot be likened to taking down a spoonful of Turtle Wax. And because of its high melting point, it’s actually not even absorbed by our bodies. Which leads us to one slightly creepy point…

Carnauba wax is typically used to give candy a sheen or a hard shiny surface, and in Peeps it’s what makes those brown eyes so shiny. When a pair of Emory scientists put the candy through a barrage of tests to determine its indestructibility, they stumbled onto something disconcerting about those eyes. After taking an hour-long bath in Phenol, a protein-dissolving solvent, the marshmallow was all but gone. The only thing that remained? A pair of wax eyes, bobbing in the Phenol, intact. The same eyes that will travel through your digestive system, intact. If that’s not nightmare fuel, we don’t know what is.

It would take this many Peeps to…    

Have you ever laid in bed at night wondering how many Peeps it would take to span the Golden Gate Bridge? You’re in luck. The good folks at USA Today determined just how many marshmallow chicks and bunnies it would take to measure up against some of the world’s most famous landmarks, and the numbers will blow your mind.

Wrap your head around this one: Houston’s NRG Park (aka the Astrodome) can seat up to 70,000 fans in its 1 million square feet. But to fill that stadium with Peeps? It would take an astonishing 1.7 trillion (trillion!) chicks.

The Hoover Dam built out of marshmallow? Probably wouldn’t be too effective, but it would take 1.3 billion Peeps to do it.

Stack Peeps bunnies up on top of each other ears to tail, and it would take 1,464 to measure up to the Statue of Liberty, 8,300 to reach the top of Chicago’s Willis Tower (aka the Sears Tower), and 2,664 to line up with the Washington Monument.

And that piece of Golden Gate Bridge trivia you’ve been waiting for… It would take more than 43,000 bunnies lined up side to side to complete the span.

Some actually prefer them stale!

Believe it or not, fresh-from-the-package Peeps aren’t for everyone — and no, we don’t mean that in the obvious way.

There are more fans of stale Peeps out there than you might think, according to Just Born VP Matthew Pye, who told HuffPost, “Everyone thinks they’re the only ones who like [them],” but confirmed that about 25 to 30 percent of consumers actually prefer Peeps — as he so eloquently puts it — “aged, like a fine wine.” With those kinds of numbers, should we expect aged marshmallows to hit shelves soon?  Nope, says Pye. They can’t afford to disappoint that 70 to 75 percent of customers who prefer them fresh. “If we were to produce a stale Peep, we couldn’t satisfy what the people want,” he explains. “We let the consumer do it themselves.” Let’s be honest, “making” stale Peeps at home is pretty easy.

Take this Instagrammer, for instance, who has perfected her aged Peeps process: “It’s crunchy bunny season!!!!! I only buy Peeps at Easter. I prefer the bunny shape, and I like them CRUNCHY on the outside. I usually open the package, split them apart and let them sit for a couple of days. Peep Perfection!!!” Crunchy bunny season does have a certain ring to it, doesn’t it?

What in the world is Peepza?

What do you get when you throw some Peeps onto an unsuspecting pizza? Peepza, otherwise known as the pizza absolutely nobody asked for ever.

It seems like every Easter someone on the internet “discovers” Peepza, but to properly lay the blame… er, give credit where credit is due, we have to go back to 2010, when Serious Eats columnist Adam Kuban debuted his springtime mashup (via Eater). The Peepza is exactly what it looks like: A plain cheese pizza, cooked almost completely, then topped with Peeps and cooked for another minute to get the marshmallows nice and melty. If we’re to believe Kuban, “it actually doesn’t taste as bad as you might think.” “You know that whole salty-sweet dynamic that we all tend to love so much? Peepza has it in spades,” he promised.

What’s good for the goose isn’t always good for the gander, though. In 2017, SBNation’s Charlotte Wilder decided to hop on the Peepza bandwagon, and her review was decidedly less enthusiastic than Kuban’s. “I took a bite of the Peepza, and let me tell you, this is the grossest s**t I’ve ever eaten. And I tried chocolate chip cookies made with cricket flour this week (don’t ask),” she said. “It tasted exactly like you think it would: A Peep on top of pizza, which is disgusting.”

Peeps Oreos came with a strange side effect…

When limited edition Peeps Oreos, complete with neon pink marshmallow-flavored creme, hit the shelves the 2017, fans of the Easter candy were quick to gobble them up. But it didn’t take long before an unsettling trend was noticed.

Turns out the bright pink creme had a surprising side effect: Bright pink poop. Those experiencing this phenomenon took to Twitter to air their dirty laundry, along with others who didn’t have that particular issue, but experienced other side effects, like a stained pink tongue and Pepto-Bismol-hued spit.

Can hot pink Oreos really have this effect on our bodies?

According to LiveScience they can, thanks to the red #3 food dye used in the creme, which gastroenterologist Dr. Ian Lustbader says doesn’t get broken down in the body during digestion. While the colored poop indicates nothing serious health-wise, for someone to actually see this startling side effect, they’d have to eat a lot of cookies. “It’s certainly going to take more than one or two,” Lustbader explained. He further surmised that if you’re eating enough of these cookies to turn your poop pink, you should probably be more worried about the sugar’s and fat’s effect on your health. Touché, doc.

Peeps has infiltrated breakfast (and dessert)…

If having Peeps available anytime during the year and in a plethora of flavors isn’t enough for you Peep-le, then how about Peeps cereal? Yep, it’s a thing. This limited edition cereal is the tasty product of a Peeps and Kelloggs collaboration. This seasonal breakfast cereal (dessert) features rainbow rings and little marshmallows shaped like Peeps bunnies and chicks.

If cereal isn’t your M.O. and you’d prefer to start your day off with pure liquid energy (that’s coffee, by the way), then International Delight has you covered. If you’ve visited the refrigerated creamer section at your local grocery store recently, you might have noticed the plethora of different creamers that are readily available to you — M&M’s creamer anyone? What about Reese’s? International Delight offers seasonal flavors, too, and for spring they bring you Peeps Creamer. And if you want more dessert with your Peeps, Cold Stone Creamery recently introduced Peeps ice cream, which is for springtime only.

There was a Peeps Mobile and a Peeps Fun Bus!

What would you think if you were waiting at a red light and a bright yellow Volkswagen Bug with a Peep (of comparable size) riding on top of it rolled up beside you? Well, you’d initially want to take a photo (because who wouldn’t?), then you’d probably wonder if this car had been touring the states just as much as the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile.

Well, it happened back in 2003, in honor of Peeps 50th anniversary. And it wasn’t just a Volkswagen Bug. (Why stop with one vehicle when you can have two?) There was a Peeps bus that toured as well.  Inside that revamped school bus was Peepsville: A life-sized diorama that showcased the different Peeps that were in production at that time. (They’ve most definitely expanded on their flavor offerings since then). The bus came complete with a sampling station, so everyone could try a Peep — but who hasn’t tried a Peep before?

Peeps is a Pepsi flavor.      

Returning two years after a quick run as a promotional giveaway, Pepsi has reintroduced its Peeps flavor to beverage shelves across the U.S. Pepsi x Peeps merges the sugary cola sweetness of Pepsi with the marshmallow essence of Peeps to create a vanilla-ish cola combination, available in 7.5-ounce mini-cans and 20-ounce bottles. Customer reactions are as mixed as the candy-in-soda formula. Happy YouTube reviewers call out the balance of sweetness as surprising, noting the Peeps marshmallow essence as being present in the aroma as well as the flavor. Online critics mark the beverage down for the same reasons, hinting that this flavor may be better enjoyed by Peeps fans rather than regular Pepsi drinkers.

If the flavor sounds inspired, it certainly lit up the beverage industry. The original hype over this splash-up mash-up was followed by competitive cola colossus Coca-Cola offering their own marshmallow soda. The company recruited Grammy-winning musician Marshmello for their own marketing blitz. While the expanding line of Peeps flavors and merchandise may suggest the candy is on trend, Peeps-flavored Pepsi is a springtime flavor sensation that will only be available for a limited time.

Read More: https://www.mashed.com/147604/the-untold-truth-of-peeps/

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164 thoughts on “Hanging With My Peeps!”

  1. Good Morning, Pat and Filly! Cute post – I loved Peeps as a child when they appeared in my Easter Basket from the Easter Bunny, received just before we were washed and dressed in new clothes – frilly dresses, hats, gloves and our white summer Sunday shoes!

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    1. Remember how slippery our new shoes were back then? Nowadays, children’s dress shoes are non-slip. I think that’s cheating.

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      1. LOL…now that you mention it, I DO!
        I remember we three had to always stand on the pavement outside the house…we looked like a police line up

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    2. Morning GA!
      adorable!
      we never had to wear the gloves…lol
      Mom made my sister and I matching dresses and my brother had to wear a vest that matched our dresses…he hated that…LOL

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    3. Morning, GA! Is that you??? My a-Mom used to make me wear white gloves for Easter and she did the same with HB. Easter was a big day for that. This pic was taken at Easter before I was adopted when we were living with our Grandma. Grandma always made matching outfits for my sister and me. As for peeps, I’ve never been a fan.

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            1. No, that pic was taken at Grandma’s. I have another pic of me on a swing w/my sis at our other Grands’ house in our Sunday best and I was scowling then, too. We didn’t like having to get dressed up! My a-Mom was the one who turned me into a “lady….” well, tried to anyway. I can fake it real good!

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      2. No the photo is not me – but of my era, for sure.

        The little girl in the middle looks a lot like me and my sister. Same short straight hair and bangs.

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        1. i have always had bangs! still do.
          when my hair is short, like now, it’s relatively straight (but thick). when it’s longer it’s curly

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    1. Morning, Pat! Looking at some rain here and possibly a little bit of some snow to the north. 34 and cloudy at the moment. Not a Peeps fan here but I’m not fond of marshmallows overall anyway.

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      1. Morning Filly…
        I admit the peepza, peep flavored soda and coffee creamer are definitely NOT things I would try, but PEEPS rule!
        didn’t you ever eat fluffernutters growing up??

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      1. Morning Bill!
        We have a constant battle every spring with the robins trying to make nests on the log corners of the house–we live in the woods—hundreds of trees, but the log ends are exactly what they look for. lol Hubby put smaller log pieces on those corners to discourage them. One year a particularly determined robin managed to squeeze between that log piece and the house and inch by inch he managed to push the log piece far enough that he made a nest! (back side of the house which is not visible unless you go back there all the time.)
        and we have a rule…he can’t get rid of the nest if there’s eggs in it.

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      1. Gail Combs
        Gail Combs(@gailcombs)Online
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        Reply to TheseTruths
        April 4, 2023 03:30

        This is the story Kari Lake is pointing to.

        https://www.uncoverdc.com/2023/04/03/new-testimony-confirms-ballot-tampering-in-maricopas-2022-election/

        New testimony from Bob Hughes confirms ballot tampering in Maricopa County’s 2022 election. Hughes states in his affidavit that “an intentional change was made to the printers affecting the DAY OF Election ballots” in the 2022 Maricopa County midterm election. Hughes’ affidavit in Exhibit K of a newly filed Motion to Reconsider in Mark Finchem’s dismissed 2022 election lawsuit confirms previous testimony from Clay Parikh. Parikh was one of several expert witnesses in the Kari Lake lawsuit.

        Parikh testified there are “only two ways the printing of a 19-inch image on a 20-inch paper happened, and they are both intentional. He explained, “One way is by changing the printer adjustments. That would make the printer adjustments, and settings override the image file that was set. The other is from the application side or the operating system side.”

        Hughes has 50 years of experience in the printing industry—16 of which have been in “printing ballots for Maricopa County Elections,” according to his affidavit. He also helped “establish the auditing criteria for the printing and paper portion of the 2020 Maricopa County ballot audit and helped select and set up the equipment used during the audit to do the ballot counting.”

        On Mar. 6, 2023, he and his team reviewed the Logic and Accuracy reports (L&A) for the 2022 Maricopa County Election. Hughes and his team “physically inspected the ballots at MCTEC that were used in the testing of the election tabulators.” They also reviewed each of the Maricopa County Voting Center certification reports and the Tabulator reports that were “printed during their testing.” His affidavit clarifies explicitly that “[t]he most important and notable finding is that every machine and every voting center report show that every test was passed without any failures.”,,,,

        Lot more info at the website.

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          1. right, but i think this is highlighting that this was not an “accidental” thing. someone HAD to change something–meaning it was intentional election interference

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  10. Citizen 817
    Citizen 817
    April 4, 2023 12:25 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    4h
    Wow! District Attorney Bragg just illegally LEAKED the various points, and complete information, on the pathetic Indictment against me. I know the reporter and so, unfortunately, does he. This means that he MUST BE IMMEDIATELY INDICTED. Now, if he wants to really clean up his reputation, he will do the honorable thing and, as District Attorney, INDICT HIMSELF. He will go down in Judicial history, and his Trump Hating wife will be, I am sure, very proud of him!

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    1. Citizen 817
      April 4, 2023 12:26 am

      @realDonaldTrump

      4h
      D.A. BRAGG JUST ILLEGALLY LEAKED THE 33 points of Indictment. There are no changes or surprises from those he leaked days ago directly out of the Grand Jury. No Crime by Trump. What a MESS. Bragg should resign, NOW!

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    2. wonder what the statue of limitations is on BRAGG’S CRIME? hope it lasts well into President’s Trump’s term where he can be prosecuted

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  11. Citizen 817
    April 4, 2023 12:28 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    1h
    Speaking of LEAKS, Special “Prosecutor” Jack Smith (What did his name used to be?) leaked massive amounts of information to The Washington ComPost. This is illegal, and I assume this Radical Left Lunatic, much to the chagrin of his Trump Hating wife and family, will be PROSECUTED? He is a totally biased Thug who should be let loose on the Biden Documents hidden in Chinatown, and the 1,850 BOXES secretly stored in Delaware, which Biden REFUSES to give up. Biden is guilty of Obstruction, I am not!

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  12. Citizen 817
    April 4, 2023 12:36 am

    @WallStreetApes

    7m
    The United States Government spends BILLIONS per year putting fluoride in your water. Do you think they do that out of the goodness of their hearts?

    Official reasoning from the CDC says “On average, every dollar spent on fluoridation by a community saves $20 in avoided dental treatment costs” 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

    Does this make any sense at all to you? Why do you need to ingest it? Why not just put it on your teeth? The government is just gonna pay for that for you?

    @WallStreetApes
    21h
    NEW LAWSUIT FORCED BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TO TURN OVER DOCUMENTATION OF STUDY THEIR HEALTH OFFICIALS WERE SUPPRESSING

    There is NO SAFE LEVEL OF FLUORIDE IN YOUR WATER 💧☣️

    The United States Government has been forcibly medicating the population with poison, keeping people dumb & docile

    Every time you take a drink of water the government is poisoning you 🚨 #Fluoride #FluorideWater

    Must Watch:
    https://rumble.com/v2fzdg6-biden-admin-suppressed-study-no-safe-level-of-water-fluoride.html

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      1. agreed. you should be able to sue your doc for medical malpractice and lawyers too.
        gov’t always wants immunity from their stupidity tho—just look at the slush fund we pay for

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  30. GS applied for a couple of jobs on-line and will probably go today or tomorrow for Michael to introduce him to his boss at AutoZone – it would be the perfect job for GS since he knows sooooo much about mechanics and he and Michael have met before. And they desperately need good, trustworthy help. Possibly Saturday, his GF will come to visit with her kids and I’ll get to meet them. From what he has told me, she seems to really have her head on straight in the midst of a really terrible situation but we’ll see.

    Pulled this pic from one of the Tweets in case anyone wants to save it:

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  31. “Half of ‘Long Covid’ Sufferers Have Never Had Covid, Says New Study”
    BY IAN MACLEOD 3 APRIL 2023 7:00 AM

    ENTIRE ARTICLE @ TheDailySkeptic: “The battle of ideas around Covid has few clashes as hotly contested as Long Covid. Alarmists have hyped the frequency and severity with which infection causes long-term damage. Sceptics see no reason for panic. A new study helps to settle at least part of this debate.

    The paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association’s (JAMA) Network Open looked at “post–COVID-19 condition (PCC) in young people after mild acute infection” to find how common it was and to find risk factors. Participants were aged between 12 and 25. The authors offer this straightforward conclusion: “PCC was not associated with biological markers specific to viral infection.” That is, participants were equally likely to suffer from ‘Long Covid’, whether or not they had suffered from acute COVID-19.

    The researchers concluded that Long Covid is predicted by “initial symptom severity” and, intriguingly, “psychosocial factors”. The full article is available on JAMA Network Open.
    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2802893

    The main results from the present study were: (1) the prevalence of PCC six months after acute COVID-19 was approximately 50%, but was equally high in a control group of comparable SARS-CoV-2-negative individuals; (2) acute COVID-19 was not an independent risk factor for PCC; (3) the severity of clinical symptoms at baseline, irrespective of SARS-CoV-2 status, was the main risk factor of persistent symptoms six months later.

    Symptom prevalence data are consistent with other controlled studies of young people after acute COVID-19 reporting a high symptom load, with only subtle differences between individuals testing positive and negative for SARS-CoV-2. Correspondingly, a large population-based study found no associations between most persistent symptoms attributed to COVID-19 and serological evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection. …These findings suggest that persistent symptoms in this age group are related to factors other than SARS-CoV-2 infection, and therefore question the usefulness of the WHO case definition of PCC.”

    Worth reading in full. Stop Press: Civil Servants are three times more likely to self-diagnose as suffering from ‘Long Covid’ as everyone else. That is, 10.8% of civil servants claimed to be sufferers, compared to 3.3% of the U.K. population. Guido Fawkes has more.”

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  35. trumpismine(@trumpismine)Online
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    April 4, 2023 10:16

    Donald J. Trump

    @realDonaldTrump
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    VERY UNFAIR VENUE, WITH SOME AREAS THAT VOTED 1% REPUBLICAN. THIS CASE SHOULD BE MOVED TO NEARBY STATEN ISLAND – WOULD BE A VERY FAIR AND SECURE LOCATION FOR THE TRIAL. ADDITIONALLY, THE HIGHLY PARTISAN JUDGE & HIS FAMILY ARE WELL KNOWN TRUMP HATERS. HE WAS AN UNFAIR DISASTER ON A PREVIOUS TRUMP RELATED CASE, WOULDN’T RECUSE, GAVE HORRIBLE JURY INSTRUCTIONS, & IMPOSSIBLE TO DEAL WITH DURING THE WITCH HUNT TRIAL. HIS DAUGHTER WORKED FOR “KAMALA” & NOW THE BIDEN-HARRIS CAMPAIGN. KANGAROO COURT!!!

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  40. trumpismine
    trumpismine(@trumpismine)Offline
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    April 4, 2023 10:50

    Donald J. Trump

    @realDonaldTrump
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    13m
    WHEN YOU SEE RINO’S KARL ROVE, BILL BARR, OR PAUL RYAN ON YOUR TELEVISION SCREEN, JUST TURN TO A DIFFERENT STATION, OR TURN OFF YOUR SET. YOU’RE BETTER OFF WATCHING THE DEMOCRATS!

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  49. “School sanctioned creeper is gonna creep”

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: ” The sorority sisters at the University of Wyoming chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma are suing the school for allowing a 6′ 2″ 260lb completely intact, Tinder profile indicating ‘seeking women’ male into their sorority. Right now he and his many erections have been visiting but he’s going to be allowed to move into the house next semester.

    “The Fraternity Council has betrayed the central purpose and mission of Kappa Kappa Gamma by conflating the experience of being a woman with the experience of men engaging in behavior generally associated with women,” it added.

    The lawsuit also claims that Langford “has, while watching members enter the sorority house, had an erection visible through his leggings. Other times, he has had a pillow in his lap.” Seriously, this has to be dude’s wet dream come true–and I mean this (unfortunately) literally.

    According to the lawsuit, Langford also asked the sorority members inappropriate questions, such as “what vaginas look like, breast cup size, whether women were considering breast reductions and birth control.”

    Considering his apparent creepitude, I do imagine this is the closest he’s been to real vaginas. If the lawsuit fails or gets thrown out, it’s going to take him raping one or more of his ‘sisters’ for something to maybe happen.”
    ———————
    “Members of a sorority at the University of Wyoming are suing the school for admitting a transgender woman into their house who was seen multiple times secretly watching them and was caught doing so with an erection at least once.

    Seven unnamed sorority sisters in Kappa Kappa Gamma have filed a lawsuit against the school and against the transgender sorority member, 21-year-old Artemis Langford, who joined their chapter in September 2022.”

    https://100percentfedup.com/sorority-members-sue-university-after-trans-woman-granted-membership-and-allowed-into-sorority-house/

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  50. Ha! I didn’t know Brandon was at Mar-a-Lago!!! LOL – that’s lawyer’s for ya’! Blind as bats!!!

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