Frisbie Pie Company
| Industry | Food (bakery) |
|---|---|
| Predecessor | Olds Baking Company |
| Founded | 1871 |
| Headquarters | Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA |
Key people | Dan O’Connor, owner |
| Products | Dessert pies |
| Website | www |
| Footnotes / references Defunct from 1958 until 2016. | |
The Frisbie Pie Company is an American
Pie tins
Frisbie supplied pies to many Connecticut retailers and restaurants, including the Middlebury College campus in nearby Vermont. Middlebury students discovered that the pie tins, inverted, had an airfoil shape, which enabled them to be thrown, with practice, in various trajectories.[2] [1]
In 1957, the
Frisbie pies today
The Bridgeport pie factory closed in 1958;[1] Frisbie brand pies were bought out by Table Talk Pies.[3]
In 2016, Dan O’Connor, a Fairfield, Connecticut resident, Frisbee player, collector and historian, acquired the license and distribution rights to the Frisbie Pie Co.[1] He re-launched the company in November 2016 in Bridgeport, Connecticut and began distributing pies throughout the region in early 2017.[4] They sell pies based on the original Frisbie Pie Company recipe.[1]
In popular culture
In
See also
- Ken Westerfield Frisbee disc sports
- Ultimate (sport)
- Flying disc games
References
- ^ a b c d e f Herrmann, Michele (23 April 2019). "The Return of the Pie Company That Gave the Frisbee Its Name". Gastro Obscura. Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
- ^ Kirka, Danica. "Middlebury College Claims Stake in Frisbee Creation". AP NEWS. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
- ^ Aimee Tucker (August 11, 2016). "Table Talk Pies". New England Today. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
- ^ "our_story". www.frisbiepie.com. Archived from the original on 2018-01-06. Retrieved 2017-12-29.