The missus and I were at Walmart this evening, stocking up on some groceries. Imagine my joy when I turned down the cookie aisle and saw these sitting on the shelf:
Yes, folks, Mallomars are in stock at your local Walmart!
If you’ve never had one before, a Mallomar is a graham cracker cookie with marshmallow on top, all encased in a dark chocolate coating. It’s similar to the Moon Pie, a longtime Southern favorite. In fact, both of these delicious treats were introduced in the same year: 1913. But where Moon Pies are more like a “sandwich”, Mallomars are more like cookies. Delicious cookies.
Because they melt so easily, Nabisco only makes them in the cooler months between October and April. Folks have been known to stock up on them late in the winter so as to have a “spring supply” of ’em. And for some reason, Mallomars are really popular in New York: around 70% of all Mallomars are purchased in the New York metropolitan area.
Similar cookies are also popular in Europe. In the German-speaking areas of Switzerland, the local version of the cookies are called Mohrenköpfe (Moor’s heads)!
I live just nort of Austin TX and NONE of the Wal-Marts stock them…tried them all
I’m sorry you couldn’t find them! I was at my local Wal Mart last night, but we didn’t go to the dairy aisle (my Wal Mart keeps their cookies opposite the dairy products for some reason).
I did see them at our local Bi-Lo a week or so ago, when the missus and I went cherry-picking there.