Everything you want to know about Peeps in two minutes and a half, courtesy of ABC News webcast:
In these weeks before Easter, known to fans as peak Peep season, some 600 million will be gobbled up. That's enough Peeps to circle the equator. Twice! Wal-Mart alone sells enough to stretch from New York to LA.
Link - Thanks Natalie!
And yes, here's Venus de Peepo that you'll see in the clip and its inspiration.
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You may not even realize how different that can be from what you are used to until you go -and even more fun - when you come back. The Japanese are so quiet and polite that I actually found it more jarring coming home and getting on public transit at the airport - suddenly everyone is making noise, strangers talking to each other, couples yelling at each other on the train... yeah, part of me definitely preferred the quiet solitary feeling. :)
One thing Japan definitely isn't is quiet. It's loud, but in a different way to what Americans, and I assume other Westerners, are used to. There are speakers outside of shops playing music/ads to entice shoppers in, and once their inside, they're bombarded by small radios playing jingles on a 10s loop(I worked retail in school, and I think I'd have gone homicidal listening to the same tune that often).