In Back to the Future Part III, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) knocks a gun out of Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen's (Thomas F. Wilson) hand using a Frisbie pie plate. This would have been very unlikely because the movie takes place in California and the Frisbie Pie Co did not distribute outside New England. The presence of a Frisbie pie plate in the Old West seems like a bit of literary license on the part of the screenwriter. Baked goods in the 1800s were distributed within relatively confined areas, due to their perishable nature. However, it is conceivable that a Frisbie tin might have traveled out west in a bundle of household goods, and been used for baking homemade pies.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisbie_Pie_Company
History A player throwing a flying disc; Mackinaw City, Michigan.The clay target used in trapshooting, almost identical to a flying disc in shape, was designed in the 19th century. The modern day era of flying discs began with the concept of designing and selling a commercially-produced flying disc.
The Frisbie Pie Company (1871–1958) of Bridgeport, Connecticut, made pies that were sold to many New England colleges. Hungry college students soon discovered that the empty pie tins could be tossed and caught, providing endless hours of sport. Many colleges have claimed to be the home of "he who was first to fling." A Dartmouth College ex has argued, tongue-in-cheek,[1] that in 1820, an undergraduate named Elihu Frisbie grabbed a collection plate from the chapel and flung it out into the campus, thereby becoming the true inventor of the Frisbee. That tale is dubious, as the "Frisbie's Pies" origin is well-documented. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_disc
The frisbee's origins actually go back to a bakery called the Frisbie Pie Company of New Haven, Connecticut, established by William Russell Frisbie after the Civil War. The bakery stayed in operation until 1958, and during this period, the tossing of the company's pie tins, first by company drivers and later by Ivy League college students (some say it was cookie tin lids), led to frisbie becoming a well known term describing flying disc play in the Northeast.In 1871, in the wake of the Civil War, William Russell Frisbie moved from Branford, Connecticut, where his father, Russell Frisbie, had operated a successful grist mill, to Bridgeport. Hired to manage a new bakery, a branch of the Olds Baking Company of New Haven, he soon bought it outright and named it the Frisbie Pie Company (363 Kossuth Street). W.R. died in 1903, and his son, Joseph P. Frisbie, manned the ovens until his death in 1940. Under his direction the small company grew from six to two hundred and fifty routes, and shops were opened in Hartford, Connecticut; Poughkeepsie, New York; and Providence, Rhode Island. His widow, Marian Rose Frisbie, and long-time plant manager, Joseph J. Vaughn, baked on until August 1958 and reached a zenith production of 80,000 pies per day in 1956.
Frisbie brand pies are still produced in Worcester, Massachusetts by Table Talk
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