Peep That: Better Than Egg Whites!

To celebrate Easter and Help you with that lent promise, Dunkin Donuts has introduced the peep donut, a little processed pastel piece of heaven, topped with the icon spun sugar sweet chick peep.

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People have a bizzare if loving relationship with the peep.  Someone took the time to make this:

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and this:rsz_wowpeeeeps-1

along with a million other little scenes made of/with peeps

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So sticking a peep on a donut seems like it should have happened sooner.  With recent news that obesity among young people is down, you may be thinking the peeps donut is just glazed devil, but hold on!  Eat your peeps donut with abandon!  The peeps donut, weighing in with 310 calories has less calories than several of the healthy eating options:

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Author: Susan X Jane

Susan X Jane, Principal of Navigators Consulting, has over 30 years of experience exploring race and representation in both the public and private sectors.  Susan is a transracial adoptee—a Black woman raised in a White family and community—an experience that created an early focus on the way race shapes our concept of ourselves and each other. Susan has worked to address race and racism as a community organizer, nonprofit program developer, professor of communications, and consultant to corporations and impact-focused institutions.  As Principal of Navigators Consulting, she draws on decades of experience to work with organizations in the public and private sectors. To any who seeks to build a better world, she offers her skills as a teacher, coach, and strategic partner to help create diverse and inclusive environments where the humanity of all is respected and protected.

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