SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — They’ve made whoopie in Maine. A big whoopie pie. In an effort to outdo Pennsylvania, a Maine radio station teamed up with a whoopie-pie maker to create a 1,067-pound one Saturday.
State Reps. Paul Davis and Emily Cain, sponsors of a bill to declare the whoopie pie Maine’s official “treat,” were on hand as it was assembled at the Maine Mall in South Portland. The idea was to outdo Pennsylvania, where people created a 250-pound whoopie pie in September.
“We’re just stealing the title from them,” said Randi Kirshbaum, program director of WMGX, a radio station that teamed up with a business called Wicked Whoopies to make the treat.
A friendly competition has broken out since Maine tried to claim the whoopie pie, which consists of chocolate cakes filled with creamy frosting. Pennsylvania took exception to Maine’s claim, saying whoopie pies were invented by the Amish.
