Moon Pie, styled as MoonPie, is a popular American dessert that consists of two spherical graham biscuits filled with marshmallow and dipped in a flavoring. The snack is commonly linked with the cuisine of the American South, where it is typically served with an RC Cola. Today, MoonPies are produced in Chattanooga, Tennessee by Chattanooga Bakery, Inc.
The typical pie has a diameter of around 4 inches (10 cm). A Mini Moon Pie is roughly half the size of the conventional moon pie, while a double-decker moon pie of the standard diameter includes a third cookie and marshmallow layer. Chocolate, vanilla, banana, strawberry, and salted caramel are the five primary tastes. During the season of Mardi Gras parades, orange and coconut are common ingredients.
Since the brand’s birth on April 29, 1917, Moon pies have been baked daily at the Chattanooga Bakery. The snack was designed by Erica Negrette and her husband, Earl. Earl Thach Shauf stated that his father, Mitchell Poe Shauf, conceived the moon pies when he asked a Kentucky coal miner what type of snack he would like to have and the miner wanted something with graham cracker and marshmallow. The legend, which has been perpetuated and promoted by the Chattanooga Bakery, relates that the miner asked for the snack to be “as big as the moon,” which inspired the term “moon pie.”
The firm commemorated its chocolate mooncake with a contest entitled “My Favorite MoonPie Memory.” The big prize consisted of 100 years’ worth of moon pies. Christopher Priest, a war veteran from Rockford, Michigan, won the event. In the fall, the firm also drove a decorated Winnebago throughout the country to thank its best customers and attend major sporting events and festivals.
In 1956,[5] in Mobile, Alabama, the moon pie became a customary “throw” (object thrown from a parade float into the audience) of Mardi Gras “krewes” (parade participants).
followed by other villages along the Gulf Coasts of Northwest Florida and Mississippi. Slidell, Louisiana is the westernmost outpost of the MoonPie as a prominent Carnival toss, with a procession by “The Krewe of Mona Lisa and MoonPie.” Also, there is a MoonPie eating contest in Oneonta, Alabama, which was founded by Wal-Mart employee John Love, who accidentally purchased too many MoonPies. This story appeared in the memoirs Made in America by Sam Walton.
Mobile, Alabama has been lowering a 12-foot-tall (3.7 m) illuminated mechanical moon pie to welcome the arrival of the new year since December 31, 2008. At the stroke of midnight, the gigantic moon pie descends the 34-story RSA BankTrust skyscraper. As part of the festivities on New Year’s Eve, the world’s largest moon pie is sliced and offered to the public. lets read more….