Pie." In 1973, NRBQ had a minor hit with the song "An RC Cola and a Moon Pie." An annual RC Cola and Moon Pie Festival is celebrated in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, and a moon pie eating contest is held in Bessemer, Alabama. In the 1994 song "Lifestyles of the Not So Rich and Famous" by country artist Tracy Byrd, a line says "Our champagne and caviar is an RC Cola and a Moon Pie." Lyrics in the 1976 song "Junk Food Junkie" by Larry Groce include: "And I pull out some Fritos corn chips / Dr. Pepper and an Ole Moon Pie / Then I sit back in glorious expectation / Of a genuine junk food high." In the 1999 film The Green Mile, a character named Toot is drinking a glass bottle of RC Cola, and when he is about to eat his Moon Pie, a death row inmate named Wild Bill offers him a nickel for his Moon Pie. In Mobile, Alabama The moon pie became a traditional "throw" (an item thrown from a parade float into the crowd) of Mardi Gras "krewes" (parade participants) in Mobile, Alabama during 1956, followed by other communities along the Northwest Florida and Mississippi Gulf Coast. The westernmost outpost of the MoonPie as an important Carnival throw is Slidell, Louisiana, which has a parade by "The Krewe of Mona Lisa and MoonPie". Also, in the town of Oneonta, Alabama, there is a MoonPie eating contest started by Wal-Mart employee John Love when he inadvertently ordered too many. This anecdote was featured in Sam Walton's autobiography, Made in America. Since New Year's Eve 2008, the city of Mobile, Alabama has been lowering a lighted mechanical Moon Pie to celebrate the coming of the new year. The giant Moon Pie descends the 34 story RSA BankTrust building at the stroke of midnight. Every New Year's Eve, the world's largest Moon Pie is cut and served to the public as part of the festivities. It weighs and contains . Others On October 14, 2017, Matt Stonie, a competitive eater famous in national eating contests, ate 73 single-decker Moon Pies in eight minutes at the Bass Pro Shops store in Memphis, TN. Newport, Tennessee held its first annual Moon Pie Festival in May 2012. Ingredients Enriched wheat flour (niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), corn syrup, sugar, vegetable shortening (contains partially hydrogenated soybean