How it's made: The beautiful birthing process of Peeps

Every year, the Peeps family welcomes roughly 2 billion marshmallow candies.

The production process has changed plenty in the last 52 years since the brand began making its strange candy. In 1953, it took approximately 27 hours to create a single Peeps candy using a hand-controlled pastry tube.

See also: 10 Weird Things to Do With Peeps So You Don't Have to Eat Them

Fast-forward to present day, and it takes just six minutes to birth one of these candies. Which means that 509 Peeps are hatched every eight seconds and that they will soon takeover the world

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