shoo-fly pie

shoo-fly pie
/shooh"fluy'/
an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.
[1925-30; so called in allusion to the attractiveness of the molasses to unwanted flies]

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shoo-fly pie,
a pie or cake made of flour, crumbs, brown sugar, and molasses: »

Shoo-fly pie…is a breakfast cake, he insists, and it's perfectly permissible to dunk it (Wall Street Journal).

[from the sweetness of the pie, which attracts flies that have to be shooed away]

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(also shoofly pie) n. a rich pie made with molasses and topped with crumbs
Origin:
from the U.S. interjection shoo-fly (referring to the need to wave flies away from the sweet treacle)

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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