The Legend of the Moon Pie
Like any great legend, the MoonPie mythos has been handed down in the great oral tradition.
Sam Campbell IV, president of the Chattanooga Bakery, tells the story as it was told to him. In this version, an enterprising salesman at the bakery is responsible for the birth of the MoonPie.
Says Campbell: "When he went up into Appalachia to try to sell some of the products from the bakery to the coal miners, they said, 'We don't want anything that you're selling. We want something that's big and round and filled up with marshmallow and it needs to be covered in chocolate.' And then they framed the moon with their hands and said, 'It needs to be as big as the moon!'"
Sure enough, the MoonPie was an astronomical hit. And though it is most beloved — and consumed — by those living in the South, MoonPies are actually sold in every state. You just have to look a little harder in some places than others. www.npr.org/...
Healthcare is EASY. Ha!
Remember Trump’s promise of the best healthcare, cheaper than ObamaCare, with all the best doctors?
That’s a Moon Pie promise.
Hear Trump talk about healthcare recently?
No.
Why?
Apparently the wall ate it.
There is a custom for eating Moon pies with RC Cola, although the origin of this is unknown.[2] It is likely that their inexpensive prices, combined with their larger serving sizes, contributed to establishing this combination as the "working man's lunch". The popularity of this combination was celebrated in a popular song of the 1950s, by Big Bill Lister, "Gimmee an RC Cola and a Moon Pie".[1] In 1973, NRBQ had a minor hit with the song, "An RC Cola and a Moon Pie". en.wikipedia.org/...
Michelle Obama wanted All Americans, especially kids, eating healthy natural foods.
In contrast, Trump is the junk food president.
He encourages others to eat that way, too.
Trump serving fast food to the Clemson players isn't just insulting. It's especially bad for elite athletes.
Athletes have carefully-crafted diets for a reason. A table full of Big Macs simply doesn’t cut the mustard.
Elite athletes, nutritionists and doctors know, run a larger risk of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or "enlarged heart," because push their bodies harder than even their bodies are sometimes capable; it’s a side-effect of rigorous training. The heart works overtime to ensure that enough oxygen gets where it needs to go, and that’s already difficult when you’re a linebacker’s size and moving that fast that often. Anything that makes it harder for an athlete's heart to work — like a sub-optimal diet of heavily processed fried foods — increases that risk.
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There are Moon Pie recipes, too, in case the original is not sweet enough for you, including one with Moon Pies and gummy worms. Mmmm. moonpie.com/…
Moon Pie elections, unlike desserts, are not sweet or funny at all.
Update, from the US HOUSE NC-09 election investigations—
Dowless Instructed Workers To Fill Out Absentee Ballots With GOP Candidates
Lisa Britt, a worker for political operative McCrae Dowless, said during the North Carolina board of elections hearing Monday that Dowless instructed his employees to fill out illegally collected absentee ballots with votes for the Republican candidates.
The hearing is to investigate alleged election fraud in North Carolina’s 9th district.
Britt said that most of the ballots had the congressional race and sheriff’s race filled out, as those were the major elections that topped the ballots. She said that Dowless’ cohort would fill in the empty votes for more minor, down-ballot races.
“Basically what we would do — what I would do — is to submit the vote for whoever was the Republican,” Britt testified. talkingpointsmemo.com/...
When Daddy does not know best—
Key witness testifies to tampering with absentee ballots in N.C, House race
According to testimony Monday, Dowless had two components to his operation — collecting absentee ballot applications and then collecting the actual ballots. He and those he hired collected at least 788 ballot requests in Bladen County and 231 in neighboring Robeson county, according to investigation findings.
Britt, a convicted felon on probation who admitted to voting in the 2018 election despite being barred from doing so in North Carolina, is Dowless’ step-daughter. She said they have a very close father-daughter relationship, but she testified against Dowless, saying that she did simply what he directed her to do.
“I didn’t think my father would send me out to do anything illegal,” Britt said. www.nbcnews.com/...
Bet Trump Jr thought that, too, Britt.
Moon Pie President— We are on to you.
We don’t want a fake president, complete with sugar-high promises.
Taxes returns, like sugar-high crashes, will show many more your emptiness.