Today's question on my page-a-day trivia calendar is "What US state designated the whoopie pie (not to be confused with a whoopie cushion) as its official state treat. Not too surprising for any of you who have spent time in the east, the answer is Maine. "The state has been commercially baking the whoopie pie - two cakelike cookies with frosting in the middle - since the 1920s." This information not only made me hungry for a whoopie pie, but also made me wonder if Indiana has a state treat? According to Google, Indiana has a state pie, which I would certainly consider a treat - sugar cream pie. Not surprisingly, this is one of my all time favorite pies. While writing this, and wishing I had a piece of sugar cream pie handy, I happened to notice the headline on a Reader's Digest issue that arrived recently. It is "The Best Snack in Every State." Naturally, I flipped to the page listing Indiana's best snack and it says 'corn dog.' The accompanying paragraph said very nice things about corn dogs including the fact that we now have a pre-professional baseball team named the Lake County Corn Dogs. But honestly, if it came right down to it, I would take sugar cream pie over corn dogs any time. I did also see that RD agrees with my calendar that Maine's best treat is the whoopie pie. They even got a full page spread with pictures. Now I really am hungry.
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