One of the many versions of folklore is that the wives took the little bits of batter left over from their cake making and made the tiny pies. The husbands and kids would find them in their lunchboxes the next day and would say, “Whoopee!” when they saw the little bites of goodness.
Maine argument: Maine’s claim was that Labadie’s Bakery invented them around 1925. The original bakery burned