Raise your hand if you think pink peeps taste worse than yellow. Great, great, welcome to the iodine tasting club. It's genetic. Pink-dyed dessert isn't supposed to have more bitterness than an IPA
Fun fact: Orson Well's last role was Omicron, the planet sized transformer in Transformers the Movie. Since he was a method actor, he ate so many peeps he became the size of a planet.
Canada doesn’t exactly have a peeps culture. I didn’t even know about them until I was in my late 30s, and encountered them in some HP fan humour sketch. Had absolutely no context, and no idea what TF they were.