Classic Food Friday: The MoonPie
We talk a lot about obesity these days, so it is odd to think that it was only a few decades ago that a MoonPie and a Coke was an acceptable lunch. The thick and filling MoonPie is a Southern classic that was actually considered to be a meal way back when.
Check out the MoonPie website for the sweet and silly stories that won the “My Favorite MoonPie Memory” contest. The various stories feature a MoonPie proposal and a ninety-five year old memory of buying a MoonPie and a Coke for a nickel.
My favorite MoonPie memory took place on a beach in Southern Mississippi many years ago, at a conference that was sponsored by MoonPie. In the wee small hours of the morning after the awards banquet everybody there ended on the beach looking at the water and somehow that turned into a MoonPie fight. Lots of laughter followed, but a word to the wise for anyone thinking about trying it … those things are thick and they hurt. It was a hell of a lot of fun though.
MoonPie, Coke, obesity, South, lunch
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July 20th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Just stumbled on this piece by Googling pictures of delicious old-fashioned Moon Pies.
Interesting observation about obesity - I think the critical point is that it was regarded as an ‘acceptable MEAL’! Do you know anyone now who would stop at one Moon Pie and a cola as one of their three square meals a day? I think not… which may help clear up your confusion.
Also bear in mind that these were poor miners, and this was a meal because the availability of fresh nutritious food all year round may have been more limited back then.
Nice pic, anyway - keep up the great work!
Claire