Bob McCarty Writes

The city of Mobile, Ala., will usher in the New Year in tasty and spectacular fashion with a 600-pound, 1,500-light electronic MoonPie rising over the city at the stroke of midnight, according to a news release issued this morning by the Mobile Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau.

In addition, officials from Chattanooga Bakery, the MoonPie Bakery, will serve up the largest MoonPie ever baked — a 60-lb, four-foot-wide, 45,000-calorie banana MoonPie — to members of the public just before midnight.

For those who want their own single-serving-size MoonPie, officials in Mobile say thousands of the individually-wrapped chocolate, graham cracker and marshmallow snacks will be distributed to partygoers.  In addition, Royal Crown Cola (RC Cola) — the traditional soft drink with which to enjoy a MoonPie — will be donating 5,000 cans of RC Cola to the New Year’s celebration.

Proceeds from the sale of commemorative T-shirts and coffee/hot chocolate will go to the local Salvation Army and McKemmie Place, a local shelter for homeless women.  Click here to visit the MoonPie homepage (yes, there is one!).