The 2024 RC Cola and Moon Pie Festival is almost here, and I couldn't be more excited. I'm a massive fan of small town festivals, the Moon Pie festival is one of my favorites.

And in Hartford in 1976, the first of NRBQ’s Moon Pie Festivals was held. Moon Pies, the fruit of a Chattanooga, Tenn., bakery, were ubiquitous […] Skip to content ...

“RC Cola and a Moon Pie for breakfast. My mom didn’t like for people to know that. Everybody I knew ate ’em and they sold ’em in school, in the lunch room.

In the 1950s, Big Bill Lister sang about them in "RC Cola and Moon Pie," but no one knows exactly why the soft drink and chocolate snack became famous together.

If people-watching is your idea of fun, then head down to Bell Buckle, Tenn. —about an hour-and-change southeast of Nashville — for the small town’s annual RC Cola & Moon Pie Festival. You ...

This weekend marks the silver anniversary of what is likely the nation's oldest Moon Pie Eating Contest, beating out the Moon Pie and RC Cola Festival in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, by a couple of years.

I missed mention of the annual RC Cola and Moon Pie Festival in Bell Buckle,Tennessee (I didn’t know there was a Bell Buckle). And I overlooked the Moon Pie Eating Contest in Bessemer, Alabama.

RC Cola is the classic paring for a Moon Pie, but Mobile officials are hoping that a tall glass of The O’Jays will be even better.

Eating Moon Pies and drinking RC Cola together has been a Southern tradition for many years, and she is working to get RC Cola on board for the new festival, but her sole focus is on Moon Pies.

Moon pies not only flooded grocery store shelves, but they gained mainstream popularity thanks to country singer Big Bill Lister's 1951 song "Gimme an RC Cola and a Moon Pie".