McDonald's new fried apple pie can't live up to its lore

McDonald’s new fried apple pie returns temporarily as part of the chain’s plan to mark America’s 250th birthday, replacing the baked apple pie that previously became the “sad understudy.” The piece describes finding the hand pie in the “Sweets & Treats” section two days before its official comeback on Tuesday. It notes that the fried version had been pulled years earlier when McDonald’s concluded that it no longer matched public tastes, after the baked option took over in 1992 during a low-fat trend. The writer pairs the pie with McCafé coffee and recounts how early menu packaging differed from the current rigid container. The article also references past legal attention associated with “Caution HOT!” cups, mentioning that a case awarded nearly $3 million to a 79-year-old woman, though details are truncated in the excerpt.