{"id":4917,"date":"2025-10-17T00:09:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/4917\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T00:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:09:21","slug":"peeps-inside-the-pennsylvania-factory-where-the-snack-is-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/4917\/","title":{"rendered":"Peeps: Inside the Pennsylvania factory where the snack is made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Love them or hate them, those marshmallow Peeps that come in blindingly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/weird-flavor-combinations-oreos-ice-cream-dec4521457e81fa5cc801baefb3b73f5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bright colors and an array of flavors<\/a>\u00a0are inescapable around the Easter holiday.\n<\/p>\n<p>Millions are made daily in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, by Just Born Quality Confections, a family-owned candy manufacturer that also churns out Hot Tamales, Mike and Ike fruit chews and Goldenberg\u2019s Peanut Chews.\n<\/p>\n<p>Peeps is Just Born\u2019s most recognizable brand and one of a handful of candies that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/candy-corn-halloween-trickortreat-384c51299fe00945c0e92b29cc3ff86a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">evoke strong reactions<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 good and bad. Some say an Easter basket isn\u2019t complete without Peeps while others deride them as being indestructible. Some use them in recipes or even artwork.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if you\u2019re not usually one to gravitate to eating the Peeps, there\u2019s always so many other fun ways to include them in your celebrations,\u201d said Caitlin Servian, brand manager for Peeps.\n  <\/p>\n<p>How many Peeps are made each year?<\/p>\n<p>On average, about 5.5 million are made each day.\n<\/p>\n<p>That adds up to 2 billion a year \u2014 or roughly 6 Peeps for every man, woman and child across the U.S.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Love them or hate them, those marshmallow Peeps that come in blindingly\u00a0bright colors and an array of flavors\u00a0are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,4541],"class_list":["post-4917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-peeps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}