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You’re right and you should say it

I'm gonna one up you buddy, whoopie pies are just gross. It's like eating diabetes.

(I have tried them a bunch throughout my life, I can't be 100% on the ingredients though, so you could be on to something OP)

The only good whoopie pies were the ones sam's made in the 90s before they went to the mass produced ones.

Can’t Sam just make some more or is he busy?

Homemade whoopie pies are the best.

I wasn’t born here so I can talk all the shit I want about these alleged “pies”.

They ok.

Brownie whoopie pies from Douin's market in New Sharon. If you're going to get diabetes, make it worth it.

Homemade are good. I’ve had good store bought whoopie pies before but in general I’m not really a baked sweets person so being able to make them at home and tone them way down is the best option. Those monstrosities that look like a scooby doo hamburger made of frosting are gross though.

I've even had homemade "this person makes the BEST you'll ever find" kinds. The cake part tasted better, for sure, it's that middle though, kills the whole experience.

It's like getting a cake but with "traditional" frosting. Can't even finish the piece of cake because the frosting is too much.

Scooby and shaggy were stoners, I'm sure they could even do a better job at creating some awesome munchies 🤣

The one at Big G’s are pretty good- small though

Shortening is just gross.

Also I bought a whoopie pie from the grocery store that looked amazing but it tasted strong like plastic bc it was wrapped tight in Saran Wrap for who knows how long. That was vile and put me off whoopie pies for quite a bit

The hint is fluff.

agree to disagree - my moms whoopie pie frosting is shortening, confectioners sugar, and vanilla extract. it’s a disgusting recipe, but it has to be that frosting for me.

I don't remember exactly what happened but there was a disagreement between the guy who had the recipe and the restaurant owner or something. My dad knew him and he only makes them for family now.

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Oh I basically just make a cake sandwich with a little bit of a frosting I like whipped in the mixer. Maybe like a 1/4” schmear. How do you feel about oatmeal cream pies?

Call me crazy, but I see little difference between “homemade” and the ones you find next to the cash register at rural gas stations, or even Steve’s or some other Maine brand. It’s all just cake and frosting to me.

Their muffins are good too, also tiny

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Me and oatmeal are not friends... Lol it's almost ok, until you find the raisins then I'm done entirely

I’ve had this happen so much! I think some stores use a kind of plastic wrap that makes everything taste like plastic. I’ve gone to my local store and gotten whoopie pies that were baked the morning before, but they tasted exactly like the plastic wrap they were stored in. Same with muffins, croissants, literally anything they wrapped in that disgusting plastic wrap tasted bad.

Are they small or is the loaf of bread and pound of sandwich meat next to them just big?

Edit: /s

Crisco and Fluff was the best base mix before Crisco changed in the mid 2000’s. Since then, it’s hard to make it taste the same vintage way from the past.

Edit: a word

woopie pies are the best if you use a different recipe for the frosting and for the cake, and don't make woopie pies at all.

Finally, someone else who hates whoopie pies! There is another!

Really, I just never saw the appeal of them. Tried them once. As my generation likes to say, they are mid.

Raisin hater? I think you might just have terminally bad opinions. Please see a doctor before it gets worse.

I cooked under the name Butterhead, which do you think I prefer? Wrong! Cream cheese. My D also votes cc. And coffee in the cake batter. Maine WPs are better than Pennsylvania's. They use shortening mostly.

Wow. Sacrilege. Shortening or nothing. You guys are all nuts.

Nah. I'm picky and I know it. I like what I like. Doesn't mean anyone around me has to do anything different. I've stomached some pretty nasty meals because I'm not about to make someone change their normal stuff for me. (Like mushrooms in stuffing... or mushrooms in general 🤢)

All sweet baked goods are bad for you. I cut down not out. I am happy with a taste.

They are dry as fuck though.

Try the blueberry cake, those lowbush berries are so much better than the big marble sized ones.

Respectfully, fuck you

I don’t think mother ever knew what cream cheese was lol.

Lies, big g's peanut butter whoopies are best

Mushrooms too? Oh no it’s metastasized

We're few and far between but here we are 🤣

Indeed they are. Some are really tasty though...

Respectfully, fuck you too

Oh trust me, it's a long list. I do try things again occasionally, taste buds change and what not. I barely eat anywhere other than home (mostly because I'm broke and can't eat out or travel). If ever I am elsewhere, I just suck it up and deal. Unless we're talking about ketchup on or in anything, I'd rather starve. The smell alone makes me gag.

Team butter cream!!!

Lard

Yup, mine too, others are too sickly sweet.

If food is wrapped while warm it will tend to heat up the plastic and transfer the plastic taste into the food. Truly revolting.

I make awesome whoopie pies. Team butter & marshmallow fluff.

I used to make big whoopie pies, but bringing them to work and seeing folks cut them in half inspired me to make them muffin cup size.

BULLSHIT!

Best one I ever ate was in Sherman mills. Pumpkin with cream cheese frosting.

You are so brave! I would like to say whoopie pies are somewhat nasty. Speaking as a lifelong Maine resident they are too much sugar for not enough satisfaction.

They are huge

I see a few others mention it, but Butter, Confectioner's Sugar, Vanilla, and Fluff for me. It's a bit less viscous, so I use it as a 'build your own Whoopie Pie' type desert, otherwise it can spill out.

That's what my teammate just told me her family uses. Good idea.

Yeah no doubt, everything else is way way way too fuckin sweet

This is an actual unpopular opinion: whoopie pies in general are pretty gross

All the recipes I have call for fluff, marshmallow fluff. I had to get someone to bring me some back from the states. That's my weekend project.

Even less popular opinion Whoopie pies are too sweet and just too much. (I'm sorry I know this is heresy)

Whoopie pies are gross. The better frosting delivery device is the CREAM HORN.

fluff is for EVERYTHING and it's hard to find outside of the north. I use it in my fudge.

That'd be because those are often 'homemade' using the same recipes you'd find in your gramma's cookbook, just at a larger scale.

Someone had to say it.

This doesn't surprise me. My wife's family is from there. Their food is especially delicious.

Cream horn? Is that what we’re calling ’em now…?

I got yur cream horn right here.

If you want the full experience you have to wash ‘em down with Moxie.

In my day you couldn't get whoopie pies at any corner store... but you could always get a tasty cream horn filled with thick white goo. The superior product is almost forgotten now.

I lucked out - it’s in the international section of Walmart here in Michigan.

I might be biased toward my hometown, but Wild Oats in Brunswick makes the best whoopie pies. I think it's a butter-based filling, but whatever is it, it's delicious and tastes of my childhood.

I agree and will raise you. They're total crap.

I agree tho I've never heard of them with cream cheese. I don't really care for much of any sweets but I'm mildly intrigued now

FLUFFHEAD

Best ones I ever had came from Hillman’s Bakery in Fairfield

*lard

Delicious and disgusting at the same time!!!

I definitely agree with this, however, I’m guessing I’ve never had one with butter or cream cheese. I can see that being a better option

Good idea. In the old days they were much smaller. They were a small lunch box treat your mom could make for not too much money rather than today's commercial monsters.

Lmao interesting take

Your D has a separate vote? Or is this a ranked choice thing?

Wholesome (?) Maine interaction.

This will sound disgusting, but I use a mix of cream cheese, fluff, and cool whip (same recipe as fluff fruit dip) instead of the traditional shortening/sugar mix. It tastes a bit like cheesecake.

My whoopie pies have raised hundreds of $$$ at local bake sale fundraiser auctions, so I know they're good.

Funny, my wife just made some today. I’ll ask what she used.

Agreed

Thanks for.the tip. :)

That’s the only whoopie pie flavor combo I like .

My Dad tipped me off to Douins years ago when we would drive through often. It's my goto stop along route 2. The brownie whoopie pies are my absolute favorite. The chicken tenders are complete shit the last 2? years which sucks, because they used to be very good as well.

Where does one obtain a Whoopie Pie made with cream cheese in the Portland area? I've never seen that (not a Mainer originally). I'm getting older, fatter and more stupider every day and maybe I should never have a cream cheese filled Whoopie Pie... But if I wanted to get one for a friend?....

The cake to frosting ratio is way off. It needs to be much less frosting than most are sold as.

Tiny bit of salt too

I had a friend who actually made homemade whoopie pies one time and they told me knowing the amount of lard that goes into them made them less pleasurable to eat.

I agree. I'm a big ratio guy with sandwiches and whatnot. It's never a popular opinion, but cake, and in this case, the pies, have too much frosting the same way lots of Italian sandwiches have too much meat. I don't want a block of ham and salami, I want a nice ratio of veggies, cheese, meat, etc. I joke all the time about opening an eatery called hoRATIO Sans(wiches). Like the comedian. ( a stretch I know)

Keeping the witches out on Halloween may be a challenge in New England.

Unpopular opinion- whoopie pies are gross 🫣

Preach! I don't really like traditional cakes or shortening for filling so Douin's brownie whoopie pies are a godsend. I'll make my own brownie cookies at home and go half and half ice cream sandwiches and cream cheese or peanut butter based whoopie pies.

Oquossoc Grocery in Oquossoc, Maine. So good.

I absolutely hate cream cheese frosting. Give me those damn whoopies from Sam’s Italian. I still can’t find better than those no matter how many people say they make homemade ones better.

I worked there for a little while and can confirm. Diabetes soon to follow.

They sold to new owners around that time. Probably a correlation on the chicken.

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Old Home Days pumpkin donuts every Labor Day.

Ketchup too?? Just when I think you’re done, you just keep digging the hole deeper! ;-)

Imagine trying one whoopie pie your whole life and saying you hate whoopie pies.

It's my hole, I'll dig it as deep as I want 😜

Oho no, I've had more than one whoopie pie in my life. I just don't find them appealing. I have much simpler tastes.

If you are going to use shortening, try equal parts fluff, xx sugar and shortening. Add vanilla. If you're going to a gathering, make your favorite chocolate cake and frost it with filling. Ta-da! Whoopie Pie cake.

95% of them that I have ever had were sickly and not worth eating. I don't really get them. The only edible ones I have experienced did indeed have different frosting.

I think whoopie pies suck regardless

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Is your dad my dad?

I agree. I have a friend that makes the filling with Crisco and they taste, well, just like shortening. Horrible.

Not a whoopie pie you flatlander.