Our recent poll to determine the next “it” sweet merely showed how narrow-minded we were. Your many delicious write-in candidates have revealed the error of our ways — and necessitated a runoff.
To be honest, I didn’t put whoopie pies in the original poll because I thought they were already over — after all, the Times wrote about them over a year ago. But so many commenters tagged them as the next big thing that I’ve decided to put them up against macarons, who officially topped the earlier poll with 33.5% of the vote. Also in the runoff are several more delicacies, chosen based on write-in popularity and whether I think they are good. Note: I did not select the write-in candidates “barf” or “snobby ice cream bullshit,” but I did laugh.