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yupuhoh t1_iwea9ay wrote

Reply to comment by 16F4 in I’m in Miami Beach. These are from New York. Discuss. by seanmick

Sold, not made. First commercially sold in Lewiston Maine.

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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.

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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

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16F4 t1_iwedlg0 wrote

You in fact do want to argue because you started the argument. So, let’s correct your comments:

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

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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.

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16F4 t1_iwf8w33 wrote

But maybe they brought them back?😉

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yupuhoh t1_iwefj43 wrote

https://www.farmersalmanac.com/whoopie-15640

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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.

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