A moon cake or MoonPie is an American candy, popular in most parts of the United States, consisting of two round graham biscuits, with marshmallows filling in the middle, dipped in layers flavorful. Snacks are often associated with South American cuisine where they are traditionally accompanied by RC Cola. Today, MoonPies is made by Chattanooga Bakery, Inc. in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The traditional pie has a diameter of about four inches (100 mm). A smaller version exists (mini MoonPie) which is roughly half the size, and MoonPie Double-Decker from traditional diameter has a third cookie and an officer marshmallow layer. The five main flavors are chocolate, vanilla, banana, strawberry, and salted caramel. Oranges and coconuts make a seasonal appearance during the Mardi Gras parade season.
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History
MoonPies has been made daily at Chattanooga Bakery since the brand's establishment on April 29, 1917. Earl Mitchell Junior says that his father came up with an idea for MoonPies when he asked a Kentucky coal miner what type of snack he wanted to eat, and the miner asked for something with graham cracker and marshmallow. Popular folklore, repeated and encouraged by Chattanooga Bakery itself, states that miners then asked for the snack "for the moon", which inspired the name "moon cake".
There is a habit to eat MoonPies with RC Cola, although this origin is unknown. It is likely that their low prices, combined with larger portion sizes, contribute to establishing this combination as a "workmen's lunch". The popularity of this combination is celebrated in a popular song of the 1950s, by Big Bill Lister, "Gimmee a RC Cola and Moon Pie". In 1973, NRBQ had a small hit with the song, "A RC Cola and a Moon Pie".
Since New Year's Eve 2008, the city of Mobile, Alabama has lowered the mechanical lunar pier as high as 3.7 meters to celebrate the coming of the new year. MoonPie giant down the 34 storey RSA BankTrust building on a midnight strike. Every NYE, the world's largest MoonPie is cut and presented to the public as part of the celebration. It weighs 55 pounds (25 kg) and contains 45,000 calories.
RC & amp; The annual MoonPie Festival is celebrated at Bell Buckle, Tennessee, and the MoonPie Eating Contest is held in Bessemer, Alabama.
On October 14, 2017, Matt Stonie, a famous competitive eater in the national food contest, ate 73 Single-Decker MoonPies in eight minutes at the Bass Pro Shops store in Memphis, TN.
Newport, Tennessee held its first annual MoonPie Festival in May 2012.
The company celebrates the centenary anniversary with the contest "My Favorite MoonPie Memory". The grand prize winner gets MoonPies for 100 years. It also takes Winnebago wrapped all over the country in the fall, thanks its main customers and attends sporting events and festivals.
In September 2017, as part of his Centennial, MoonPie returned to the original recipe, replacing HFCS with real sugar and eliminating preservatives and artificial colors and flavors.
Mardi Gras Tradition
MoonPie became a traditional "throw" (stuff thrown from a floating parade into the crowd) Mardi Gras "krewes" (parade participants) in Mobile, Alabama during 1956, followed by other communities along the Mississippi Bay Coast. The westmost outpost of MoonPie as an important carnival throw is Slidell, Louisiana, which has a parade by "The Krewe of Mona Lisa and MoonPie". Also, in the town of Oneonta, Alabama, there is a MoonPie eating contest started by Wal-Mart employee John Love when he accidentally orders too much. This anecdote is featured in Sam Walton's autobiography, Made in America .
Apollo 11 traditions running on the big moon
The MoonPie is a traditional celebratory meal to remember the Apollo 11 moon journey that took place on July 20, 1969. MoonPies are used in celebration memorials by aerospace workers and fans around the world.
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Nutritional facts
MoonPie is made with marshmallows, which are low-fat but high-sugar foods. The nutritional content of full-size chocolate or Mini MoonPie (from 2004) is detailed below, showing (full size) 226 calories, saturated fat 3.5 g, 40g carbohydrate, 4g protein, 5% iron, from total weight 57 grams (2 ounce). The nutritional data for Chocolate MoonPie Mini is about 65% of full size.
The ingredients are as follows: enriched flour (niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), corn syrup, sugar, vegetable shortening (containing partially hydrogenated soybean oil and/or cottonseed oil and/or oil coconut and/or palm kernel oil and/or palm oil), soybean meal, dried cacao (processed with alkali), cocoa, halal gelatin, baking soda, lecithin, salt, artificial flavor, sodium sulfite.
Nutritional Facts for MoonPie chocolate (full size):
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- Portion size 1 (57g or 2oz)
- Calories: 226 Calories from fat: 51
- Total fat: 5.7g (saturated fat 3.5g) Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 188mg
- Total Carbohydrates: 40g (dietary fiber 0g, sugar 12.5g)
- Protein: 4g
- Vitamin A: 0%
- Vitamin C: 0%
- Iron: 5%.
Nutrition Facts for Chocolate Mini MoonPie:
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- Serving 1 size (34g or 1.2 oz)
- Calories: 152 (or 130) Calories from fat: 40 (or 30)
- Total fat: 4.5g (saturated fat 3g) Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 120mg
- Total Carbohydrates: 26g (0g food fiber, 8g sugar)
- Protein: 2.5g.
Note that nutritional data for MoonPie is brown or Chocolate Mini MoonPie, while other flavors (such as bananas, vanilla, strawberries, or oranges) may have different nutritional content.
Flavors
Single-decker
- Salted Caramel
- Pisang
- Vanilla
- Cokelat
Double deck
- Salted Caramel
- Strawberry
- Pisang
- Cokelat
- Lemon
- Oranye
- Vanilla
Minis
- Salted Caramel
- Strawberry
- Pisang
- Vanilla
- Cokelat
- Kelapa
Moon Pie Crunch
- Peanut Butter
- Mint
Similar products
In the northern region of the US, a similar product is called "Scooter Pie" and there is also a single marshmallow cracker cake called "Mallomars". Little Debbie also makes what they call "Marshmallow Pies" which is almost identical to the Moonpies. In Great Britain, Australia and Canada similar products are called "Wheel Wagon" and in South Korea, "Pie Choco" is very similar produced by some companies. In Japan, there is a smaller "Angel Pies" by Morinaga as well as the brand "Choco Pie".
Some Taiwanese companies produce "Choco pie", and in Mexico there are similar cake pies called "Mamut" (Spanish for "Mammoth", sold by Gamesa), and "Rocko" (marketed by Marinela); there are some other small brands as well. In Turkey, the same pie is called "Halley". In Egypt, the same cake is called "Bimbo". In Argentina, the likes are "Alfajor", more than 20 brands that are marketed as "alfajores" are very popular.
In popular culture
The ABC-TV show Good Morning America featured "The Moon Pie Song" by Charles Ghigna (Father Goose) during a tour at the Chattanooga Bakery Company in 1991.
In "Season 2 Episode 15" Phases, Xander states that although the full moon can bring out the worst quality of mankind, "ironically also leads to the discovery of the Moon Pie". Giles finds this funny.
In the CBS sitcom Big Bang Theory, Sheldon calls his grandmother Meemaw, who in turn calls him Moonpie.
In The Cannonball Run Burt Reynolds refers to Dom Deluise as a "round orange moonpie with a white hat".
See also
- Alfajor
- Chocolate-covered marshmallow cookies
- Chocolate pie
- Fluffernutter, another marshmallow sandwich type
- S'more
- Wheel Wagon
- Pai Whoopie
References
External links
- Chattanooga Bakery official website
- Images
- Company Articles Chattanooga Bakery in Tennessee Encyclopedia Online
- Nutrition Facts
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