Talk:Moon Pie

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I live in a northern region of the US, and we call them moon pies.

Merge Wagon?
Regarding the association of Moon pies with Wagon Wheels... there is a discrepancy between the description/implication of a wagon wheel as the UK brandname for moon pies, and the wagon wheel page which has it's own history of the product as an independent creation.

Does anyone have any more detail to this?

--Nemo 06:47, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Can't Merge. Since MoonPie&reg; is a registered trademark (of Chattanooga Bakery, Inc.) and a well-known brand, it gets a separate article, just as Pepsi and Coke won't get merged, according to Wikipedia guidelines for separate articles. I am removing the merge-tag. -Wikid77 10:53, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Graham cracker
what the heck is a graham cracker?? -- Apostrophyx (16 January 2007)


 * something like a digestive biscuit. GraemeLeggett 12:37, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Imagine a sweet Saltine cracker with darker color and sugar instead of salt. 69.152.64.205 (talk) 00:57, 15 May 2008 (UTC)


 * There's a wiki for Graham cracker if you need to know more. 66.115.91.128 (talk) 13:38, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Nutrition
What does the product label say are the calories, fat grams, sugar grams, fiber, and protein? The company website is silent on the point.Edison 14:09, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Wagon wheels are pretty bad, about 150 calories each. Considering the fact that if I have one I HAVE to have another, that's at least 300 calories right there. dave 09:02, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Traditional Throw?
The moon pie is a traditional throw of Carnival krewes. After much effort I finally understand this sentence. Could someone who is more knowledgeable on the matter please re-write this paragraph in English? Markb 15:36, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Someone added links, so it's clearer now. Sik2thestomach 01:26, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I added a description of a throw as to make the sentence more clear. I don't think most people will be used to seeing "throw" as a noun.12.188.199.11 (talk) 18:52, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Picture
Anyone want to put up a picture of an actual Moonpie? I live in Australia so I can't. Cheers, Rothery 08:32, 22 August 2007 (UTC).
 * Done. Geoff  TC 20:40, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Availability outside of Southeast.
The article says it's "rather rare to see these pies sold" outside the Southeast. I live in San Jose, California. While I don't remember seeing them in grocery stores, I have seen them regularly in convenience stores, liquor stores, and even hardware stores for decades. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Seitz (talk • contribs) 04:28, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
 * They're sold at the local Dollar General, and I live in Wisconsin. Sik2thestomach 01:23, 4 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Oddly enough, I too live in San Jose, California, and my wife just bought two of them last night at a convenience store. I've been eating them around here since the 1980s.  They may well have once been restricted to the South, but that no longer is the case. KevinOKeeffe (talk) 13:57, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

I removed the sentence. Sik2thestomach 01:31, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

trivia section tag
the pop culture section is short and not obtrusive i'm removing the tag tomorrow at 10 am pacific standard time, unless there are objections --Manwithbrisk 23:48, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Clean-up Needed
The method of stating moon pie differs throughout the article: moon pie, MoonPie, Moonpie, moonpie. A style should be selected. Does the use of the trademark meet Wikipedia's standard for trademarks?  Mark @ DailyNetworks  talk  12:47, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Done some cleanup. - 83.254.214.192 (talk) 08:10, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Citation Needed
Good lord... they just read this article nearly word for word on Oprah... They did leave out all the "citation needed" tags though. heh. 12.205.93.197 (talk) 22:29, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Citation would help in the history & origin section, too. Also, this sentence, "His grandson said it looks like the moon," seems sub-literate, and requires either quotation marks or tense correction. The following sentence, "M.P. Shauf yelled “Moon Pie" so loud that it scared his grandson to tears" is unattributed to any source. -cneron

Whoopie Pies
In New England, a similar item is known as a "Whoopie Pie," though chocolate cakes are used instead of graham crackers, the pastry is not dipped in chocolate and the filling is sweet cake icing and not marshmallow cream.

So it's basically nothing like a moon pie. You might as well compare it to every other sandwich snack if you're gonna say this. --66.220.133.185 (talk) 23:03, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

I grew up in Alabama eating Moon Pies, and now live in New England, where I've had a number of whoopie pies. The only thing they have in common (beyond general "sandwich dessert" concept) is that they're tasty and not good for you. 204.179.229.30 (talk) 17:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I went ahead and removed that bit. 68.57.50.6 (talk) 02:27, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Hipster fuel
In the proto-Steely Dan demo track "The Roaring of the Lamb", Donald Fagen laments that "Smart Eugene refused to share his Moon Pie." That line is considerably more esoteric if you don't know that it's a reference to a snack cake. Asat (talk) 08:32, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Nurtritional info
I'm pretty sure this has to go. It is pretty much trivia, doesn't do anything to further the understanding of the subject, and a quick glance of several other food related articles doesn't show the nutritional info anywhere near those articles. We're not a health site or calorie counting website.--Crossmr (talk) 10:49, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

RC Cola and Moon Pie?
Not to knock RC Cola, but the phrase I recall is "Gimme a Red Dope and a Moon Pie"--the red dope being a Nehi Strawberry soda. Naaman Brown (talk) 02:03, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

RC & Moon Pies are traditionally linked in the southern U.S., possibly just because of the regional popularity of both. -cneron —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.117.190.34 (talk) 01:36, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Re: 'Advertising' re-write
The section that's tagged as being advertising and in need of re-write is the 'official' history of the product, and although it may not be entirely factual it is still relevant to the article as a whole. Simply changing the headline to 'Manufacturers Description' or something similar, and adding the caveat 'It is claimed that...' would allow wiki to keep the information, as it is part of the mythos of the product and adds information, but without presenting it as being totally neutral or factual. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.167.216.73 (talk) 07:45, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 * As an encyclopedia entry, eveything does have to be 'totally neutral or factual' Kernsters (talk) 21:17, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Better image?
One that displays the brand. Like this. —User 000 name 18:16, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Description lacking?
The first paragraph describes this as "a confection, ..., which consists of two round graham cracker cookies, dipped in a flavored coating." This doesn't mention the marshmallow filling, which would seem to be either the first or second most important ingredient. Marshmallow isn't even mentioned until the second paragraph, and then only in passing, as though we're already familiar with that part ("... a third cookie and attendant layer of marshmallow"). Did the first paragraph suffer some sort of editing mishap? I don't really feel qualified to authoritatively describe a Moon pie, having never had one myself, but I'm hoping someone more familiar with them can clear this up. Thanks. CarlRJ (talk) 16:42, 10 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Easy answer here: somebody deleted that bit of the sentence a few days ago with no explanation. (It was the most recent edit in the page history.) I've reverted it. Thanks for catching that. --McGeddon (talk) 16:59, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

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Moon Pie featured as WONKA's Fudgemallow in Willy Wonka 1971
In Mel Stuart's adaptation of Willy Wonka, in that scene Charlie receives WONKA's Fudgemallow on his birthday hoping there was a golden ticket at first, but didn't, Charlie brakes a piece to share with his family and if you look very closely that is in fact, a Moon Pie which I did not know about at the time till years later in some articles and documentaries in the making of Willy Wonka. Most Willy Wonka fans don't even know that and I think it's cool to bring that trivia up on Moon Pie page and Willy Wonka 1971 page both on Wikipedia. SECREngineNo592 (talk) 22:37, 19 March 2024 (UTC)