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
Then the bake-off round involves a dessert inspired by the Pennsylvania classic shoofly pie.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2021
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
Anticorruption campaigns within departments are so extensive that one P.B.A. has taken to posting pictures and license plates of "shooflies," as internal investigative officers are called.
From Time Magazine Archive
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