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whoopie pie
20.1%
ice cream sandwich
79.9%
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Show threaddarren is Not Going BackJun 14, 2023
@gbhnews most challenging poll ever, i'm genuinely unable to decide
Show threadgbhnewsJun 14, 2023

@bikepedantic This question brought to you by the fact that there was a GBH-wide email that a whoopie pie food truck would be coming to our street...AND THEN IT DID NOT COME.

#heist

Show threadDan SugalskiJun 14, 2023

@gbhnews @bikepedantic What? No!

Clearly we need to organize a Community Whoopie Pie Delivery Truck event. Or at least a delivery cargo bike, though I suspect that won't have nearly enough capacity to properly meet demand.

Show threadJoan LiuJun 14, 2023
@wordshaper @gbhnews @bikepedantic Now I'm wondering how many whoopie pies can fit in a delivery cargo bike.
Show threadDan SugalskiJun 14, 2023

@inliuofjoan @gbhnews @bikepedantic A full-sized whoopie pie is 5 inches or about 12 cm in diameter and around 3cm tall. If we assume some packaging space that's 13cm wide, 4cm tall. Looking around I see cargo bike containers vary in size but a good one seems to have a cargo area that's 89cm by 62cm. If we tile irregularly we should be able to get 35 pies in a layer and probably stack it 9 layers deep, so...

That's about 315 pies which, if I am Mathing properly, is about four servings, so we'd probably want a bunch of bikes for this but it's totally doable.

Show threadJasmine Mangalaseril 🧁Jun 14, 2023
@wordshaper @inliuofjoan @gbhnews @bikepedantic I now want to introduce whoopie pie as a unit of measurement.
Show threadgbhnewsJun 14, 2023
@cardamomaddict @wordshaper @inliuofjoan @bikepedantic like how many whoopie pies equals 1 smoot
Show threadJoan LiuJun 14, 2023
@gbhnews @cardamomaddict @wordshaper @bikepedantic I feel like the whoopie pie to smoot conversion requires some oops-we-ate-some-factor.
Show threadDan SugalskiJun 14, 2023
@inliuofjoan @gbhnews @cardamomaddict @bikepedantic there are 13.4 whoopie pies to the smoot, which honestly just won’t do. We should see if he has any slightly shorter relatives so we can recalibrate to an even 13.
Show threadJoan Liu
@wordshaper @gbhnews @cardamomaddict @bikepedantic round up for the eaten factor
Jun 14, 2023 at 11:38pmWeb