Kitchen

[ECBG]

@Carmie 

Within the last 10ish years, it has been necessary to ask "is this "lower sugar" or traditional?".

[northiie57]

The lemon and key lime I have been buying for years.  I wish I could find the strawberry and the creme bruele.  The chocolate is good to.  The peach, apple, and cheesecake one is not good as it looks.  Hope they bring it back

[ECBG]

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@northiie57 wrote:

The lemon and key lime I have been buying for years.  I wish I could find the strawberry and the creme bruele.  The chocolate is good to.  The peach, apple, and cheesecake one is not good as it looks.  Hope they bring it back

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@northiie57 

Please email Edwards about the Lemon Meringue.  The lemon cream is all "whipped cream" and a few lemon nuggets, hardly a match.  

At least they'll send you a coupon.

[stevieb]

I'm not a connoisseur of anything lemon, but this is a good pie...

[novamc1]

My husband has always been a fan of anything lemon-flavored, including meringe pies and icebox pies.  I eat virtuallly no sweets, much less pies, but his sweet tooth could win a championship prize at a state fair.  Years ago, I'd bake many a lemon pie for him.

These days,  I'm picking up the Edwards frozen key lime pie for him, and I take a small bite or two now and then.

We abandoned  lemon pies years ago.  Key lime is the way to go.  And never did like thickly-topped meringue pies.  Prefer the icebox, or  thicker custard type more.

Publix grocery stores bake their own key lime pies, sold in the bakery area of the store, but they cost more than the frozen Edwards pies.  Husband says they're pretty good, too.

[ECBG]

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@stevieb wrote:

I'm not a connoisseur of anything lemon, but this is a good pie...

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@stevieb 

Thank you.  DH brought this pie home about 4 weeks ago, and it couldn't compete with the Edwards pie.  

My friend said MC was a celebrated chef.  I was surprised.

[stevieb]

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@ECBG wrote:

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@stevieb wrote:

I'm not a connoisseur of anything lemon, but this is a good pie...

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@stevieb 

Thank you.  DH brought this pie home about 4 weeks ago, and it couldn't compete with the Edwards pie.  

My friend said MC was a celebrated chef.  I was surprised.

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@ECBG  Different tastes I guess, I've never particularly cared for Edward's pies where the focus just seems to be on, well, sweet. I prefer Callander's chocolate pie to Edward's, as his seems to be mostly whipped cream. As noted, I don't much care for lemon meringue pie, haven't since I was a kid, but found Calleder's to be reasonably good, given what it was. Like Mr. Edward, who apparently was famous for his pies in the Atlanta area, Callander was, indeed, also famous for making pies at home and selling them locally, then opening a restaurant and bakery in California. Her name then went on to spawn a chain of restaurants, and, of course, frozen goods of all kinds.

[ECBG]

@Carmie 

With fruit pies, it's always a gamble.  I have learned to ask if it's "lower sugar" which I won't buy. 

A dessert should be sweet in my book. 

I've had them where I've felt I was eating raw apples in a baked crust!

[sometimesQVCaddict]

You seem to feel very passionate about this being discontinued, but unfortunately a handful of people emailing the company won't change production. Unless millions of people get upset about it, nothing will change. If it really was a HUGE #1 seller it wouldn't have been discontinued to begin with as profits dictate what sells/is produced.

Hopefully you'll find a substitute, or can find a recipe that's similar to your favorite.

I don't know where you're from, but I can tell you at least in my area, NO restaurant sells pies you buy in the grocery store. Even cheaper restaurants or diners.There are wholesale sites they buy from if not made from scratch on the premises. Or a local "famous" bakery will supply local restaurants. The exception to this are places such as Juniors restaurant, etc. where a single brand store location (or handful of locations) also mass markets to grocery stores.

[ECBG]

@sometimesQVCaddict 

Thank you, but there isn't an equal unless it's from a private resturant.  I have tasted many.