Welcome to our series featuring Food Holidays: December 1st, 2022. Today is National Fried Pie Day and I don’t know about you but I sure would like to have a Fried Apple Pie from Whataburger or McDonalds. Would you like to go get one or two?
Five facts about Fried Pie:
Fried Pies are small fried dessert pastries, which have Fruit fillings wrapped in the dough.
Fried Apple Pies were first introduced in McDonald’s in 1968, originally fried in Lard.
New Hampshire Fried Pies were the favorite dessert of U.S. president Franklin Pierce.
The two most popular flavors of Fried Pies in the deep South are Apple and Peach.
Did you know roadside stands in the South often refer to Fried Pies as “Crab Lanterns.”
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
