The inimitable Moon Pie

Any good Moon Pie stories / memories? My uncle would bring up cases from Kentucky from time to time, banana in particular, though I preferred the less traditional chocolate. I just found a local source at the West Suburban hospital gift shop (Resurrection Health Care) where I had knee surgery Monday - they sell them individually and had all three flavors in good, fresh stock.

This is the same uncle that set himself up as the first Midwest distributor of Cholula Hot Sauce and could probably have retired 20 years ago if he had set up a better contract. In fact, I once saw him use Cholula ON a vanilla Moon Pie. And he applied the sauce using his "hook" hand replacement, making it an even better image (lost the hand to a firework as a teen). And this is after I'm off the Vicodin.

West Suburban Medical Center
3 Erie Court
Oak Park

Santander wrote:In fact, I once saw him use Cholula ON a vanilla Moon Pie. And he applied the sauce using his "hook" hand replacement, making it an even better image (lost the hand to a firework as a teen).

You certainly know how to set a scene!!

I remember the occasional Moon Pie as a kid when I spent summers with my aunt in Fredericksburg, VA. I don't remember tham being around my home in Bethesda, MD. That was quite a while ago, so they've been around for a long time.

Even as a kid, I was more into sour than sweet, so I would usually opt to spend my nickel on a sour pickle at the neighborhood store when my pals got soda, candy pars, or stuff like Moon Pies.

I saw the booth offering deep-fried Twinkies yesterday at the Taste of Melrose Park, and figuratively ran away screaming.

Moon Pies definitely played a big part of my formative years in the deep South. We had some other relatively interesting things that we ate and drank back then, too. Chocolate Soda ( a YoHoo wannabe) was another treat that we would get when we would wander up to the local gas station a couple of times a week.

In the rural parts of the South, despite the fact that Coke is an Atlanta based soft drink, RC Cola was king. It wasn't unusual to get 5 or six salted, roasted peanuts and drop them in the mouth of a 12 ounce RC bottle. The saltiness of the nuts and the sweetness of the cola, melded nicely together.

Chocopie? Cheap knockoff?

Which incidentally is on sale for $1.99 at H-mart.
http://www.hmart.com/coupon/coupon_even ... n_type=kor

Where can these be found at a store? I don't want to go to a hospital for my food.

They're at America's Market:
9 Huntington
Wheeling

Check them out on the Professional forum. They had all three flavors last time I was there. You can sometimes also find them in gas stations.

When my dad was undergoing chemotherapy for colon cancer, my uncle would always bring him an RC Cola and Moon Pie when he visited, saying there was nothing that they couldn't cure. Seeing Moon Pies always makes me a little sad now, but also extremely thankful for my uncle's thoughtfulness.

The Bass Pro Shops have them.

My favorite Moon Pie memory was made when we got our first microwave in the late 80's. I was microwaving everything I could find to see what happened. Fruit, snacks, bread, a turkey (you know you did it once), anything. I became a huge fan of reheating fruit pies and then topping them with ice cream.

One day, in a stroke of genius, I microwaved a banana moon pie and my life was never the same. It was boiling hot and gooey in the middle, still cool on the edges, and gave off the most amazing fake banana smell. With a scoop of chocolate ice cream on top it made one of my favorite sugary snacks. Ever.

It only got better when Ben & Jerry's came out with Chocolate Fudge Brownie.

Even now I occasionally indulge in the nuked moon pie. Truly, it's manna.

7-11 on Roger Williams in Highland Park sells the Moon Pie.