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Hana Maru
03/18/09

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Can the so-called cupcake craze please make it to my neck of the woods before it's replaced by another thing that may never reach me here?
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thesciencegirl
03/18/09

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mmmmm... whoopie pies. I used to get these from the Amish market in Annapolis. Pretzel dog + whoopie pie = BEST LUNCH EVER.

My mom mailed me some once when I was in college, and it was the first week of a diet..... which didn't last. lol
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pseudonom is ON STRIKE.
03/18/09

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Man, I don't know... for Thanksgiving my cousin made pumpkin whoopie pies, and LORD were they amazing. I'm not much of a cake girl, anyways.
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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
03/18/09

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i have just lost the better part of an hour thinking about assorted dessert items. I've never had a whoopie pie and I'm very afraid to now because what if it's a bad one?? Also, I had rice pudding last night. It was tasty, but I also have a Trader Joe's Karat cake in the fridge that I've been eyeing up. Just haven't gotten around to shoving it in my face yet.

Also, MOLTEN CHOCOLATE CAKE.

That is all.
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ellaesther
03/18/09

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Not to state the obvious, but these look like inside-out cupcakes. Or a cupcake sandwich, marred by the removal of one cupcake's frosting. Which my sister would like, but my son would (rightfully) mock.

Sorry, Paper of Record. I remain firmly on Team Cupcake.
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zombie.nancy is a godess of fierce
03/18/09

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screw the naysayers, i want one of these cakey-treats real bad.

Get in my belleh!
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Princess Leela
03/18/09

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My guess would be that the yeas and nays on this question break down largely among regional lines. I know we New Englanders love the whoopie, but perhaps elsewhere it does not translate so well?
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PrettyB is like Whoa
03/18/09

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Too much cake. Not enough frosting.
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tscheese
03/18/09

@PrettyB has an Itch: I will give you all my frosting if I can have the cake.
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BellaTricks
03/18/09

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"Whoopie pie" and "cupcake" both have the potential to sound like euphemisms for something dirty, but as far as I'm concerned, the comparison stops there.
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stoprobbers
03/18/09

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Um, I would like all of those right now, please. Thanks!
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boxingoctopus should be dissertating
03/18/09

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My neighborhood bakery/coffee shop, which I frequent with shameful regularity, has had whoopie pies in their pastry case for weeks now (they even sold them in pink-filled pairs for Valentine's Day), but I haven't bitten yet. (I'm too enamored of their salty oat cookies!) I might have to try one today for SXSW fuel....
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argle-bargle? or fou-ferraw?
03/18/09

@boxingoctopus can haz dissertation plz?: okay... salty oat cookies AND sxsw? i am officially jealous.
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missbananafish
03/18/09

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Where I grew up, these are called "gobs," not like Gob in Arrested Development, but a "gah" sound - just like the sound you make when you eat them. I made some for a party once here in Chicago and everyone went nuts over them.

If you're a doubter, you're on the wrong side. They are truly delicious.
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tscheese
03/18/09

@missbananafish: I lived in the Midwest, and there they were called "gobs." Like "gah-bs", not "gawbs". When I moved to the Northeast, they were 1) called whoopie pies and 2) everywhere.

My bus stop is, incidentally, next to a street called "Gaub Road." Gobdamnit, now I'm hungry.
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MizJenkins
03/18/09

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Also they make a HILARIOUS noise when you sit on them...
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insomniacmeg
03/18/09

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Obviously these writers have not been to Maine recently. Here it's not the year of the Whoopie, it's the decade.

Peanut-butter with chocolate cream? Pumpkin-maple anyone?

We're truly innovators of the Whoopie-arts.
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Miss Scarlett
03/18/09

@insomniacmeg: I was thinking the same thing. You can get a whoopie pie anywhere in Maine. Where in ME are you?
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BlueMorpho
03/18/09

@insomniacmeg: Seriously. I find it amusing that something I can buy at the gas station is the new "in" food.
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Miss Scarlett
03/18/09

@BlueMorpho: @insomniacmeg: Yay Maine Jezebels! In in Southern Maine. I wish we could have a get together.
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argle-bargle? or fou-ferraw?
03/18/09

In reply to Makin' Whoopie
i was intrigued by the picture until i read this:

'The filling is generally of one of two types: a thick, sweet frosting made from Crisco shortening combined with confectioners' sugar, or, more conveniently, a dollop of Marshmallow Fluff.'

aaaaaaand no... dang. they look tasty, but i cannot abide synthetic white substances masquerading as frosting.
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tscheese
03/18/09

@argle-bargle? or fou-ferraw?:

i cannot abide synthetic white substances

Then you and I can never get gay-married! Hmph!
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argle-bargle? or fou-ferraw?
03/18/09

@tscheese: i would do anything for love, but i won't do that. that being marshmallow fluff ;)
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