Why are there so many kinds of Peeps?

In my house, we buy yellow chicks and blue bunnies.  Sometimes pink bunnies if we can't find blue bunnies.  I guess this makes us Peep-racists.

Anyhow.  There are too many colors and shapes of Peeps now.  Who wants to eat a green chick?  That's obviously not healthy.

Moreover, Peeps are an Easter candy.  I know there's Easter candy corn now, in pastels and spring shapes--that too is an abomination (well, even more than regular candy corn).  That doesn't mean that Peeps should retaliate by casting their sinister marshmallow shadow over the confectionery world.   And yet, there are Christmas Peeps.  Who wants to eat a marshmallow tree?  Still worse, there are Hallowe'en Peeps.  Who wants to eat a black cat Peep?  All food coloring that gives you grey or black is clearly made of cancer and despair.  Plus it gets on everything.

And all this is after the cognitive and gastronomic hurdle you have to leap before you even admit that they're comestible.*

* Well, they sure ain't food.