Torched Marie Callender's pie became a meme, but here's what really happened (2024)

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Torched Marie Callender's pie became a meme, but here's what really happened? ›

"Somehow, some way, the baking temperature had been changed from Fahrenheit to Celsius," Weiss told me. "The result was that when I set the temperature to 375, it was actually closer to 700 degrees Fahrenheit." (707, to be exact.) That's right -- it wasn't Marie Callender's fault at all.

Conagra Brands has issued a recalled on Marie Callender's frozen Beef Shepherd's Pie products due to the possibility it may be contaminated with clear, flexible plastic. The frozen beef shepherd's pie products were produced on March 1, 2023, with time stamps ranging between 17:45-17:56 hours.

If you were one of the many people who burned with rage last Thanksgiving when Sharon Weiss torched a Marie Callender's pumpkin pie and then blamed the company, it's OK.

Marie Callender's Inc.

On August 5, 2019, 29 stores were closed and the holding company for Perkins and Marie Callender's filed for bankruptcy.

Once upon a time Marie Callender—a real woman who launched a food empire out of a tiny shack—was just a girl in search of a job. After answering a help-wanted ad for a local delicatessen, Marie began to bake pies for the shop out of her home, quickly becoming a hit with customers.

On the flip side, already-baked pies that are then frozen won't have the same crispy, flaky crust as pre-freeze, but in my experience they are still delicious, especially when reheated in the oven and/or served a la mode. Most cream, custard and meringue pies do not hold up well to freezing.

According to the Food and Drug Administration, homemade pies containing eggs should be refrigerated. 2 However, you've probably noticed that a lot of grocery stores and restaurants serve and store them at room temperature. This is because, quite simply, they taste better that way.

They are genetically different, so they grow to a smaller size. The interior or flesh is a darker orange. Pie pumpkins, also called sugar pumpkins, usually weigh 1 to 6 pounds. Their flesh is denser and sweeter that the bigger ones, which are called carving or jack-o'-lantern pumpkins.

While a wobbly, runny pie is a telltale sign that a pumpkin pie is undercooked, an overcooked pumpkin pie is a bit harder to spot. When you've overcooked a pumpkin pie, you may see: The filling separating from the crust. The filling has visible cracks.

But it wasn't until the mid-19th century that pumpkin pie gained political significance. The pie was a topic of conversation during the debate over slavery. In fact, many abolitionists were from New England, and they found their favorite dessert mentioned in novels, poems, and broadsides.

Why is Marie Callender's closing? ›

The restaurant announced in 2019 that it was shutting down “permanently” after filing for bankruptcy.

LEMON MERINGUE

Our most popular pie! Slightly tart, slightly sweet, topped with a light golden meringue.

ConAgra said that it acquired the Marie Callender's brand trademark rights from the restaurant operating company on June 9 and granted the restaurant a license to keep using the name for its restaurant and bakery operations. ConAgra acquired a license to sell Marie Callender's frozen meals in 1994.

CALLENDER: Marie Callender. CALLENDER: Marie Callender, entrepreneur and pie magnate, is buried at the Crystal Cathedral Memorial Gardens in Garden Grove.

January 7, 2009 (age 81 years), Corona Del Mar, Newport Beach, CA

Don Callender / Died

Treat yourself to a classic pie made with cinnamon and sweet apples baked in our signature extra-flaky, made-from-scratch pastry crust and topped with crunchy brown sugar streusel. Pop it in the oven for an easy bake and serve warm with ice cream or whipped cream!

And two particularly concerning types of ingredients in Marie Callender's Chicken Pot Pie are: Highly processed fats like interesterified soybean oil. You'll be seeing a whole lot more of this ingredient on packaged food labels since the FDA has banned partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs) as of the summer of 2018.

Marie Callender's | Conagra Foodservice.

So what happened in September 1992? Our beloved McDonald's Fried Apple Pie was permanently removed from the regular menu for “health concerns.” The delicious fried pies were replaced with the baked scoundrels available today, even though those, too, were recently revamped.