“Hoosiers must rally against new state pie,” reads the headline over an editorial in the Northwest Indiana Post-Tribune. The editorial writer had not heard of or tasted sugar cream pie and wonders why the legislature designated the sweet as the official state pie.

Since the Post-Tribune and the General Assembly usually weigh in on more serious matters, it must be a relief to both to think for a few moments about the merits of a particular kind of pie.

I like sugar cream pie, although just saying the name makes my teeth hurt. If Indiana needs an official pie, the Post-Tribune says, what about pecan or cherry or apple or rhubarb? Indeed, they are fine representatives of Hoosier pie art, and who can forget blueberry or peach pie in season, with or without vanilla ice cream on the side?

You have to give Sen. Allen Paul (R-Richmond) credit for this. He whipped up the ingredients for an appetizing piece of legislation that helps Wick’s Pies, a bakery in his district that produces thousands of sugar cream pies every week.

Just one more thing about the Post-Tribune’s headline: “Hoosiers must rally against new state pie.” I visualize thousands of Hoosiers marching on the Statehouse. Instead of holding torches like the peasants storming the castle in the old movies, they would be armed with cream pies like in a Laurel & Hardy movie. Democracy can be fun!