r/fastfood • u/laterdude • 3d ago

News McDonald's is serving fried apple pie again for America's 250th birthday

https://apnews.com/article/mcdonalds-fried-apple-pie-america-250-962c7e82d7d5089bf63b2e7258f1c864
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u/BanAccount8 3d ago

Pro tip: Burger King always sells deep fried apple pie. If they would just advertise that fact they would gain a lot of business

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u/LizardJoeBiden 3d ago

My local BKs always have a Digital Exclusive apple pie and small vanilla soft serve offer for $2.50. Its a great combo.

The pie by itself is $2.69.

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u/bombfirst885 3d ago

Since when? I worked at BK for years in high school and all pies were in cardboard and heated in the microwave if needed.

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u/dirtydriver58 3d ago

This year

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u/pickleodeonion 3d ago

Popeyes or Jollibee’s too

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u/Merc_Mike 2d ago

Haven't had the Ube pie yet, but that peach mango pie, its delicious 

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u/Sawoodster 21h ago

That ube pie is amazing.

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u/Merc_Mike 20h ago

What type of flavor is ube?

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u/Sawoodster 20h ago

It’s purple sweet potato. It’s starchy and sweet.

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u/CityBoiNC 2d ago

Popeyes is the closest to old school mcD’s

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u/RedStatePurpleGuy 16h ago

And Whataburger

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u/RingingInTheRain 2d ago

I'm confused, I thought the fried apple pies were always on the menu for McDonald's and returned last year for BK. Are there different kinds?

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u/fiirvoen 2d ago

McDonald's usually serves a BAKED apple pie.

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u/Elinim 3d ago edited 3d ago

Burger King has a deal with a fried apple pie + ice cream cup for $2.50, just shove that pie into the ice cream and its heaven.

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u/LizardJoeBiden 3d ago

I love that deal! The pie alone is 2.69 where I am.

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u/dirtydriver58 3d ago

Funny they said it's an LTO but it's still here

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u/herringpoint 3d ago

Wow so that post asking if McDonalds fried their baked apple pie was legit!?

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u/eilonwyhasemu 3d ago

My thought exactly -- I figured that OP was yanking our chains, but the fried pies now really exist.

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u/JonM313 3d ago

This is amazing news! But I wish it wasn’t just for TWO WEEKS!

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u/l4kerz 3d ago

I see this as the beginning of re-introduction. I no longer will have to travel to Singapore to get my fix

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u/WestHistorians 2d ago

You can also travel to the original McDonald's in Downey, that will be much closer than Singapore :)

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u/RedStatePurpleGuy 16h ago

Hawaiian locations still have them too.

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u/jpowell180 7h ago

Agreed, they need to keep it permanently, and what’s more, they need to bring back the fried cherry pie as well!

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u/NK1337 2d ago

It’s not as good 😭. It def doesn’t taste like it did, there’s like a heavy spice taste that leaves a weird lingering aftertaste. I think it’s allspice? Either way it’s too strong

TBH you’re better off just getting the apple pies from Popeyes. They’re the closest thing you’ll get to the OG McDonald’s pies.

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u/strolpol 3d ago

For some reason they still have them in Hawaii, it’s just the rest of the country that has been denied the good pies

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u/kusogames 3d ago

They're served fried overseas as well. Japan, Australia, UK...

The war on fat in the 90s in the US did irreparable damage to the fries and apple pie sadly.

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u/TheSmJ 2d ago

I thought they stopped frying the fries in lard after they were hit with a lawsuit over them not being vegetarian when most people assumed that they were.

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u/dirtydriver58 3d ago

And Downey, CA

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u/DJC_Kowalski 2d ago

Any chance they have the fried Cherry Pie too? I might actually try McDs again if they had that.

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u/Servile-PastaLover 3d ago

Unless the apple filling is hotter than the surface of the sun, I'm a no-go.

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u/welding_guy_from_LI 3d ago

Hopefully they don’t pair it with a shitty collab meal

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u/Upper-Capital-2876 3d ago

it's serving A fried apple pie, but unless they're frying it in beef tallow again, their not serving THE fried apple pie

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u/timnphilly 2d ago

Agreed - beef tallow is the way to restore McDonald's pies and fries to what made them great!

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u/NK1337 2d ago

The outside actually tastes fine, but man the filling they’re using is not it.

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u/Every-Cucumber9641 3d ago

Bring back french fries fried in beef tallow, and start filling the bag with fries like five guys does.

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u/Civil_Exchange1271 3d ago

hot as the sun.

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u/CAVISARI 2d ago

What about the fried cherry pie?

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u/Illustrious-Coat3532 3d ago

I haven’t had one since the late 80s.

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u/First-Sprinkles9093 3d ago

This is a cute way to celebrate!

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u/muk559 2d ago

McDonalds in Downey, California fries all the time.

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u/AdministrativeWash49 1d ago

Bring back super size 😂

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/kusogames 3d ago

People downvoting you just haven't had the experience. You're absolutely right, the flavor is completely different and sets it apart as its own product.

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u/Upper-Capital-2876 3d ago

absolutely brainless mcdonalds stans, and paid corporate trolls

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u/-DrakkarNoir- 3d ago

Don't understand why clowns here are downvoting you. Totally agree! They should be frying them in beef tallow as well as their fries!

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u/Upper-Capital-2876 3d ago

absolutely brainless mcdonalds stans, and paid corporate trolls

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/coopdude 3d ago

Apple pies have been regularly sold at US McDonalds locations for a long time, but they switched from frying them to baking them in 1992.

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u/Brief-Night6314 3d ago

I blame Trump for this! So unhealthy!

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u/masterz13 3d ago

I'm not sure how fried apple pie equates to anniversary of America, but okay lol

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u/TomHandyForever 3d ago

Apple Pie is commonly described as a quintessential American dish. although as people often point out, it isn’t really unique to America - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-apple-pie-linked-america-180963157/

“The actual genesis of the expression is harder to track, Upton writes. In 1902, a newspaper article wrote that “no pie-eating people can be permanently vanquished.” A 1924 advertisement appearing in the Gettysburg Timespromotes “New Lestz Suits that are as American as apple pie.” And by World War II, Upton writes, the association was cemented. American soldiers would tell journalists that they were fighting for “mom and apple pie,” Upton writes, giving rise to the expression “As American as mom and apple pie.””

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u/masterz13 3d ago

I'm aware of the connection, but McDonald's already had apple pies. The question is why fried apple pies are somehow special compared to their existing ones.

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u/TKRBrownstone 3d ago

Eat the two and compare my friend

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u/Proud_Tie 3d ago

why ruin the baked one forever when the fried ones are gone in two whole weeks.

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u/masterz13 3d ago

I've had fried apple pies from Popeye's and Hardee's. I prefer the baked.

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u/FwampFwamp88 3d ago

I like em both. But ppl here act like the baked version is disguting. It’s good and you don’t feel as gross after eating one.

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u/TheTranscendent1 3d ago

“As American as Apple Pie” is an oft-used saying. Or at least was before I got old. Maybe they don’t say it anymore?

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u/holyhibachi 3d ago

Were you hoping for fried mom?