# What's your favorite holiday pie?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-pie/993596>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [November 23, 2023, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-pie/993596 "2023-11-23T19:30:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-pie/993596/61 "2023-11-28T21:04:31Z")

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> [@Spoons](#):
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> The rest of us tucked into apple pie, with cheddar cheese, and ice cream. [Name] looked at his sad little pumpkin pie, and at us enjoying the apple pie, with sharp cheddar cheese and ice cream, and looked like he was reconsidering his demands.

I’d have only complained if you didn’t give me any whipped cream with my pie. I prefer pumpkin for Thanksgiving. Apple pie is fine (cheddar doesn’t it make it that much more appealing to me), but it’s more an everyday, non-holiday pie for me.

> [@pulykamell](#):
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> I just don’t see the pie around and I can’t be arsed to make it (and finding rhubarb is really mostly a miss at the groceries I shop at, and when I do see it, it seems absurdly expensive for what it is.)

Marie Callendar’s used to have it all the time. I can remember when my work group went there for lunch, one of my coworkers always had to pick up a piece to go for her husband.

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-pie/993596/62 "2023-11-28T21:13:30Z")

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Huh. I didn’t realize Marie Calendar’s was an actual restaurant. I just know them from the frozen section.

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**Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-pie/993596/63 "2023-11-29T07:03:02Z")

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Okay, I understand making a pie with canned fruit if it’s difficult to source fresh. Heck, it’s pretty standard to use canned pumpkin! I myself have resorted to canned pie cherries when I couldn’t find any frozen ones. But _apples_?? You can get fresh apples at any time of year in even the smallest markets. You might not have as much selection in the summer as you do now, but almost any grocery store will have Granny Smiths year-round.

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**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-pie/993596/64 "2023-11-29T14:49:57Z")

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I like and would use all of the canned pie fillings except for apple.

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