The 100th
Anniversary of the Moon Pie-A Slice Of Americana
Click below to link to
an NPR Weekend Edition story in praise of said treat on its 100th
anniversary
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/11/25/565725694/even-after-100-years-people-are-still-reaching-for-the-moon-pie
By Acting Site
Administrator Greg Green
If anybody takes a
glance at the archives of this blog, American
Left History you will find plenty of serious history pieces, ditto
politics, music, film, books and other arcana. But not everything posted on
this site must of necessity be of some world historic importance. The standard
is basically that whatever posted reflects some aspect of the American (and
because despite the deniers this is an immigrant country, a country which gets reflected
in the cultural mix brought forth by those very immigrants and which defies,
and has defies vanilla-ization if there is such a word) international
experiences.
Hence this bon mot for
our old friend the moon pie of blessed childhood memory. You know you had one,
maybe more, of if not you wanted one when you went to some bakery and clamored
to your mother under penalty of tantrum to get you one-or else. I will confess
that Grandmother Riley, as good a baker as she was couldn’t top the ones bought
at the store. The only surprise to me in this story was how much of a regional treat
this was, mainly Southern, since I got mine in the very Northern Rockland,
Maine childhood growing up hometown.
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