Moon pies was my favorite food, and now I am gluten-free and going thru moon pie withdrawels!!!! The box of moon pies I found on this site looks the same as what I used to buy and lovingly eat. I want to know are ther moon pies on this site the same as waht is in the stores?
Please tell me something soon. Desperate for a PIE!!!!
First, I'm not able to find Moon Pies in the store here. If you followed a link to this site from a search engine like Yahoo or Google it is possible they might have indexed items that are no longer listed when you search from within the store software. Could you please try to find these again and post a link?
The items listed on our store pages are actually sold by Amazon.com, I did find items at Amazon that were described as Moon Pies, but the product description did not contain a list of ingredients or a specific claim that the items are gluten free. Amazon says these products are sold and shipped by AlwaysDirect, a distributor that apparently never ships products directly from the manufacturer.
I spoke to a customer service representative at AlwaysDirect, they indicated that they have no idea what the ingredients are in these products and they made no claim they are gluten free.
I then tracked down the manufacturer of Moon Pies, the Chattanooga Bakery in Chattanooga TN. Their phone number is 423.267.3351.
I called there but was deflected to a voicemail system, so I have no specific information to report. Nothing on their website claims that these snacks are gluten free, so I see no reason at all to believe that they are.
It seems that Moon Pies is a trademark of this bakery and any product being sold as Moon Pie is theirs.
The only thing that might suggest these pies are gluten free is that some individual has tagged them as gluten free at Amazon. I am deeply skeptical of this. I doubt very, very much that these items actually are gluten free.
In the past I have seen cases where items that have wheat flour listed as their first ingredient have been tagged as gluten free at Amazon by some malicious or foolish person.
At one time an earlier version of the store software we are using would occasionally return results for items at Amazon that were not actually gluten free, some search engines may still have some of these invalid searches cached. If that is what has happened here I'm glad you asked about this before buying something that would only have caused frustration for you later.
Currently our store software should not return any results for items not listed as gluten free in the database at Amazon, but this is still vulnerable to data entry errors when product listings are being created. For your safety please
always read the ingredients on any packaged food item no matter where it came from or who sold it. Manufacturers often change their products, and few of them consider the needs of people with celiac disease in that process.
Sorry.
Why not look in our recipes area for some nice dessert item that might help ease your disappointment. Believe me, I know how it feels
