Could the Legislature dish up a "state dessert" in 2025

As the State Legislature gets to work on its 90-day session, it's time to consider whether the Unicameral should resolve an important, and regularly overlooked matter - designating a state dessert.

Face it, we all love dessert and naming an official state dessert is long overdue. It has to rank higher than designating an official state reptile or state fossil, which we already have (the box turtle and mammoth, respectively.)

Eight states, our research indicates, have state desserts including, gulp, neighboring South Dakota.

We obviously don't want to trail South Dakota in anything other than p...