# McDonalds Apple Pie **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 17, 2001, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-apple-pie/62247 "2001-04-17T04:27:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2001, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-apple-pie/62247/21 "2001-04-21T17:49:08Z")
I don’t know if this is related, but the french term for potato is literally apples of the ground. ---
**Author:** ![Arken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Arken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arken)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2001, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-apple-pie/62247/22 "2001-04-21T21:05:36Z")
Remember, DrMatrix, you’re talking about a culture that thinks Jerry Lewis is a comedic genius. ---
**Author:** ![Magnum\_s\_Mustache](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Magnum\_s\_Mustache](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magnum_s_Mustache)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-apple-pie/62247/23 "2001-04-22T05:24:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by excitableboy \* > \*\*I have had the mock apple pie. All I have to say is that it will pass for apple pie in the taste test, but why buy a box of ritz crackers, when you can buy apples? Also, this makes a convincing argument that soylent green really could be made from people. \*\* The page says the the recipe was popular during WWII, when apples were hard to come by. I guess now it’s just a matter of someone being curious… Or maybe someone has an allergy with apples but still wants to enjoy a good pie? Pecans tear my stomach up but I still eat pecan pie… Wish someone would create a mock-pecan pie recipe. 😉 SF ---
**Author:** ![Philosophocles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Philosophocles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philosophocles)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-apple-pie/62247/24 "2001-04-22T05:31:13Z")
There’s also an urban legend about Kentucky Fried Chicken…that the birds they use were specially breeded so they wouldn’t have beaks…but as I said, it turned out to be just an urban legend. ---
**Author:** ![suziek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@suziek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suziek)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-apple-pie/62247/25 "2001-04-22T05:34:24Z")
I wonder if you could substitute the 1/2 c. pecans with pecan flavoring? Anyway, there are fewer in this version. [http://www.ichef.com/golden-recipes/Pies-pastries/15145.html](http://www.ichef.com/golden-recipes/Pies-pastries/15145.html) ---
**Author:** ![suziek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@suziek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suziek)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-apple-pie/62247/26 "2001-04-22T05:39:16Z")
Magnum: I’m sorry. I didn’t read the recipe closely enough. The pecans just go on top, not in the pie, so it seems like you could just use a few more crackers tossed in some sugar with pecan flavoring. Just trying to help but I feel like I’m drifting off into la-la land…Jeeze. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-apple-pie/62247/27 "2001-04-22T06:03:20Z")
I remember an experiment in school, 5th or 6th grade. We had to be blindfolded and another student would let us smell an apple, but feed us a slice of potato. I swear, it tasted just like apple. Well, this _was_ catholic school. 🙂 Peace, mangeorge [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-apple-pie/62247.md?page=1)