1/20/2011, 1:30 pm
Comrades, it saddens me to report two of our stalwart Liberal States have declared war over me.
Makin' Whoopie: Is Pennsylvania the birthplace of the Whoopie pie?
Published: Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 7:10 PM
By SUE GLEITER, The Patriot-News
Pennsylvanians ready to declare a pie fight.
The beloved Whoopie pie — the popular chocolate cakes with white, fluffy frosting — is under threat. Maine wants the snack to be its official state dessert.
Many say Whoopie pies originated in Pennsylvania, where Amish women baked them and put them in farmers' or schoolchildrens' lunches. Those who found them in their lunch pails would shout, “Whoopie!”
Recently, the Whoopie pie has become trendy.
A May 2009 New York Times story lavished praise on the dessert and noted that historians credit Pennsylvania as its birthplace. Last June, The San Francisco Chronicle declared that the pies were becoming a “West Coast sensation.”
But Whoopie pies will always be part of the Keystone State's culinary landscape.
Let me set the record straight and in so doing avert needless death and destruction, war never solved anything.
The Whoopie pie was invented by the People's Amish Dessert Collective in PA. The name Whoopie Pie was taken from the nickname the gulag gals have given me because I'm so darned sweet.
As a compromise for the sake of peace I'd like to offer the people of Maine another sweet dessert which we call "Sticky Buns" so named in honor of our hard working staff here at Party HQ who spend so much time seated at their computers working diligently for the Progressive World of Next Tuesday.
Makin' Whoopie: Is Pennsylvania the birthplace of the Whoopie pie?
Published: Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 7:10 PM
By SUE GLEITER, The Patriot-News
Pennsylvanians ready to declare a pie fight.
The beloved Whoopie pie — the popular chocolate cakes with white, fluffy frosting — is under threat. Maine wants the snack to be its official state dessert.
Many say Whoopie pies originated in Pennsylvania, where Amish women baked them and put them in farmers' or schoolchildrens' lunches. Those who found them in their lunch pails would shout, “Whoopie!”
Recently, the Whoopie pie has become trendy.
A May 2009 New York Times story lavished praise on the dessert and noted that historians credit Pennsylvania as its birthplace. Last June, The San Francisco Chronicle declared that the pies were becoming a “West Coast sensation.”
But Whoopie pies will always be part of the Keystone State's culinary landscape.
Let me set the record straight and in so doing avert needless death and destruction, war never solved anything.
The Whoopie pie was invented by the People's Amish Dessert Collective in PA. The name Whoopie Pie was taken from the nickname the gulag gals have given me because I'm so darned sweet.
As a compromise for the sake of peace I'd like to offer the people of Maine another sweet dessert which we call "Sticky Buns" so named in honor of our hard working staff here at Party HQ who spend so much time seated at their computers working diligently for the Progressive World of Next Tuesday.
