shoofly

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As he carried chicken corn soup, horseradish and shoofly pie to his vehicle, Olivio recalled how the Amish people seemed less welcoming at his first Gordonville sale about 40 years ago.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 12, 2024

The seating area in the market’s center is where guests can sample shoofly pie and scrapple, along with old-school favorites like Philly cheese steaks and hoagies.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2023

Surrounded today by its own mini-Beltway, the town that welcomed German dissenters in 1729, served briefly as the U.S. capital and put shoofly pie on the map is a bustling small city.

From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2022

I have had a 15-year-long love affair with shoofly pie since I first tried it on a family trip to Lancaster County.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2022

By the time I pulled myself together Mrs. Deebs was saying, “Okay, everyone line up for a little piece of shoofly pie before we go to the garden, and later to the barn.”

From "Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key" by Jack Gantos