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shoofly

[shoo-flahy] / ˈʃuˌflaɪ /


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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

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

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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