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970 WBLF. I’m Wes Richards with some thoughts on the best dessert in Pennsylvania.
The website “Business Insider” is usually occupied with things like the gross domestic product, the stock market and the number of corporations using overseas addresses as tax dodges.
But recently it came up with a list of the best desserts in America. State by state results. Something from every state.
Mud Pies from Mississippi… Salt Water Taffy from New Jersey … Junior’s cheesecake from New York… Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream from Vermont.
In Pennsylvania, the award goes to Amish Donuts and Apple Fritters from some place near Philadelphia.
I’m sure they’re fine donuts and fritters. But personally, I’m a Dunkin kind of a guy. That said, Donuts aren’t dessert. They’re something you eat on the run.
The best dessert I’ve ever had around here was the carrot cake and cream cheese frosting from Eat ‘n’ Park or Denny’s.
Ice Cream? Penn State loyalists will insist everything sold in the school’s creamery is the very best in the known universe.
Rah, rah, PSU. But Meyer Dairy beats them by a mile. And my kids went to the same high school as both Ben and Jerry, so I have to put them at number two. And Bryer’s was made in my neighborhood in Queens, New York… so I have to come down on their side, too.
I have no idea what Business Insiders’ standard is. Here’s mine: Gooey. Fattening. Enough butterfat to make Paula Deen and Martha Stewart embarrassed.
It’s DESSERT, fer cryin’ out loud. Eat all the donuts and cookies and mud pies you want. But these aren’t desserts, they’re between meal snacks.
And fruit may be good for you. And it may be sweet. But it’s still FRUIT. Fruit is stuff you eat because you HAVE to, not because you want to.
Fruit is merely vegetables only sweet. Unless it’s baked in a pie, it’s not dessert.
The other day we had some skinny cow ice cream sandwiches with no added sugar.
What’s the point? Still okay in a sweet-tooth emergency when there are no Amish Donuts around.
I’m Wes Richards. My opinions are my own but you’re welcome to them. ®
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