I’m in Miami Beach. These are from New York. Discuss.16F4 t1_iwe7und wrote
Not really a Maine thing. More of an Amish thing, I thought. All the Amish markets here in Maryland have them. Although the best whoopie pie I ever had I bought at a Maine craft fair from a company called “Forever Whoopies”. They also had gluten-free ones for the same price as regular.
yupuhoh t1_iwe8ftr wrote
It is a Maine thing. They were first sold in Maine.
16F4 t1_iwe9uw6 wrote
Sorry, no. The Amish communities of Pennsylvania made them first. Similar confections can be traced back to medieval Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopie_pie
http://www.amishreader.com/2012/08/17/whoopie-pie-history-recipe/
yupuhoh t1_iwea9ay wrote
Sold, not made. First commercially sold in Lewiston Maine.
16F4 t1_iwebm1t wrote
Again, no. Several places claim to have started selling them around the same time as Labadies did in Lewiston. The Amish claim to have been selling them in road side stands since the 1890s. You go to the larger communities of Lancaster, PA, as well as the smaller ones around Johnstown, PA and they’ll fill you in on the history.
That being said, there are lots of good whoopie pies in Maine. Certainly the best I’ve ever had outside of Amish-made ones, but that is of course a personal preference.
yupuhoh t1_iwec4hg wrote
Not gonna argue about whoopie pies. I don't even eat the fckn things. But your links say one thing. The link you find when you Google it says first sold COMMERCIALLY in Lewiston in 1925. Road side stands don't qualify as commercial business last I checked. If you disagree with Google then please contact them
16F4 t1_iwedlg0 wrote
You in fact do want to argue because you started the argument. So, let’s correct your comments:
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Google says, “Labadie's Bakery in Lewiston, Maine has been making the confection since 1925.” No mention made that is was the first commercially sold whoopie pie. Google also goes on to write, “The now-defunct Berwick Cake Company of Roxbury, Massachusetts was selling "Whoopee Pies" as early as the 1920s, but officially branded the Whoopee Pie in 1928 to great success.” So, some controversy there.
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Road side stands, and craft fairs, do qualify as commercial business last I checked. Because the IRS checks. More that $600 sales and you get a 1099. That makes it a commercial sale as far as the government is concerned. But more generally when you make a product and you get money for it, it’s a commercial sale.
IamSauerKraut t1_iwf767m wrote
The Amish, and Amish-lite aka Mennonite, pay sales tax so most certainly qualify as commercial businesses. But it's not just the Amish who have sold whoopies for decades; entirety of PA Dutch have, and have been doing so since before 1890. Gettysburgians will tell stories of whoopies present on the battlefield in 1863. 20th Maine did not bring them there.
16F4 t1_iwf8w33 wrote
But maybe they brought them back?😉
yupuhoh t1_iwefj43 wrote
JStengah t1_iwemvmg wrote
That's moving the goalpost though. You initially said they were first sold in Maine, then later changed to commercially sold. It doesn’t really matter who sold it first though, as none of the various claimants actually invented it so much as they started producing and selling something that already existed.
muthermcreedeux t1_iwgcgv3 wrote
The Whoopie Pie was first made to sell by Labadie's Bakery in Lewiston in 1925.
https://www.foodtimeline.org/foodcookies.html#whoopiepies
On a side note I will say I have not liked any of the commercially sold Whoopie pies in Maine except from Labadie's, and Bisson's Center Store in Phippsburg. Both of those taste like my mom's homemade whoopie pies, not cake patties with frosting, which is how most taste to me.
16F4 t1_iwgepap wrote
Try the ones you see at smaller venues (craft fairs and holiday fairs). Some of the cottage industry booths have really good ones. My favorites are made by “Forever Whoopies” I found at a couple craft fairs and the Whoopie Pie Festival.
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