# Do you know what "whoopie pies" are?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-whoopie-pies-are/285907
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 21, 2005, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-whoopie-pies-are/285907 "2005-01-21T13:23:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-whoopie-pies-are/285907/21 "2005-01-31T20:32:36Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> [Moon Pies](http://www.moonpie.com/hist_text.asp)
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> Moon Pies are God’s gift to the working man.
Does God hate the working man or something? Moon Pies is nasty, though my lovely wife disagrees. They’re nasty.
Daniel
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-whoopie-pies-are/285907/22 "2005-01-31T21:09:25Z")
Last fall, I got a pack of pumpkin whoopie pies filled with cream cheese frosting.
Wow. Just wow.
Robin
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### Author:  [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-whoopie-pies-are/285907/23 "2005-01-31T22:08:14Z")
Grew up in CT… we ALWAYS had them when we visited the family (Lowell, MA). Haven’t had one in years, and there’s no way I can get one down here in MD… damn you! 😛
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### Author:  [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-whoopie-pies-are/285907/24 "2005-01-31T22:45:00Z")
That whoopie looks like my idea of heaven. I don’t even have to understand it or know what’s in it to know I would love it.
Dang, $24 a dozen? I can’t take that kind of chance. Thems ain’t no Little Debbies, that’s for sure. 😃
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### Author:  [@Xan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xan)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-whoopie-pies-are/285907/25 "2005-02-01T01:14:51Z")
> [@Indygrrl](#):
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> That whoopie looks like my idea of heaven. I don’t even have to understand it or know what’s in it to know I would love it.
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> Dang, $24 a dozen? I can’t take that kind of chance. Thems ain’t no Little Debbies, that’s for sure. 😃
Do you like chocolate? Do you like frosting? If so, you might like Woopie Pies. I practically grew up on those things! I’m from Bangor area (about an hour north) Maine for the record. Looks like there are more Maine 'Dopers than I thought there were.
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-whoopie-pies-are/285907/26 "2005-02-01T01:30:42Z")
Just looking at those things make my teeth hurt and my pancreas twinge but after hearing they have pumpkin and cream cheese ones, I desperately want to try one. I \*\*\*LOVE \*\*\*pumpkin.
And even as a Southerner, moon pies are disgusting. Cardboard and caulk sandwiches taste better.
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### Author:  [@CapnPitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CapnPitt)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-whoopie-pies-are/285907/27 "2005-02-01T01:37:12Z")
As someone who went to grad school in dear ol’ Orono, I do indeed know the wholesome goodness of the Whoopie Pie. Though as a native I Western PA, I knew them as gobs before I knew them as whoopie pies.
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### Author:  [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-whoopie-pies-are/285907/28 "2005-02-01T01:41:32Z")
As yet another memeber from Amishland, I have to add my two cents. When EVE mentioned moon pies, my first thought was [this pastry](http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1713,148175-225206,00.html) , not the awful commercial snack. My mom used to make these, and they were quite delicious, like a mini apple pie. 😃
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