Omni Parker House - Boston Cream Pie origin

The Parker House hotel claims its pastry chef created the Boston cream pie in the mid-19th century; the hotel is now the Omni Parker House at the site of that claim. Boston cream pie was designated the official state dessert of Massachusetts in 1996. Locals commonly joke about the name because the dessert is a cake rather than a pie, and the hotel frequently appears in references to that joke.