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ENJOY ONE OF THE SWEETER THINGS

A few years back the whoopie pie lost out to the blueberry pie as the state’s official dessert in the Maine legislature and was relegated to being the official Maine treat.

Blueberry pies are wonderful of course, but they are also fairly common in other places, while the whoopie pie—not really a pie at all—is considered a Maine invention. Pennsylvania might disagree—they think they invented it, while food historians suspect it was likely first made in a Boston bakery. Wherever it was made, it was nurtured in Maine and has become part of the culture here. You can find them in just about any store, shop, or gas station that sells food of any kind. Many small and a few large bakeries make and sell whoopie pies by the millions in stores and restaurants around the country.

Although the traditional whoopie pie