No Moonpie for Mobile
December 30, 2007
Lagniappe:
A member of the newly formed falling moonpie committee said Richardson had agreed tossing a large confection off a 745-foot building was probably not the best idea, and they had thrown around other ideas, including lowering a “classier” crystal or paper mache moonpie.
Richardson seemed content with the paper mache idea as long as it was filled with “thousands of moonpies and had fireworks shooting out of it,” though some expressed doubt the fire marshal would sign off on paper mache pyrotechnics, as it could turn into a giant fire ball and citizens could be seriously burned with falling drips of melted marshmallow creme.
Another plan was to make it like “giant piñata” where people could beat open the moonpie to find thousands of individually wrapped ones. No word on if the city planned to provide implements to beat said piñata with or if anyone thought having hundreds of inebriated revelers wielding sticks on the streets of downtown Mobile also needed “more thought.”