“If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch,” Carl Sagan said, “you must first invent the universe.”
Who has time for that? So, if you’re pressed for time, or on a budget, or (like me) not terribly skilled in the culinary arts, a capable frozen apple pie may be a semi-adequate solution.
Here is Marie Callender’s Dutch Apple Pie —
— I ate an embarrassing number of these back when I was single. Sometimes cold, sometimes hot, sometimes a la mode.
Please consider this an open thread to recommend any other variety of prepared pies and/or simply to escape the heated arguments and hordes of trolls likely to surface in comments to the previous thread about you-know-what.