Considering the size of my sweet tooth, the last thing I need to discover is a new sweet treat that tastes like s’mores. This cannot be helped, however, in the South, where MoonPies reign. MoonPies are a cookie sandwich created with two graham cookies, marshmallow filling, and a outside coating of chocolate and, now, banana. Why go banana when chocolate makes the whole thing so s’more-like? I bought a box of Mini-MoonPies, chocolate, thinking that mini would be better for me. Of course if you eat two, what’s the difference, not that I would ever do that.

Folks often paired MoonPies with an RC Cola

I first heard about moon pies just before New Year’s Eve.The City of Mobile drops a giant MoonPie instead of a glittering ball to celebrate the new year. MoonPie Over Mobile! The half-ton mechanical MoonPie drops in only 60 seconds. Earlier in the evening, locals serve up the largest MoonPie on earth. That would be Heaven on earth! MoonPie mania!

So who invented the MoonPie? Here is the story from the MoonPie website:

It all began in 1917 when a KY coal miner asked our traveling salesman for a snack “as big as the moon.” Earl Mitchell reported back and the bakery obliged with a tasty treat aptly named MoonPie. It was filling, fit in the lunch pail and the coal miners loved it. The rest, as they say, is history.