(SavorNation) – In honor of America’s 250th anniversary, McDonald’s is bringing back Fried Apple Pie to participating locations across the country.
The fried pies — which were phased out nationally in 1992, and largely replaced with a baked variety — will be available starting June 23 on the all-day menu, for a limited time.
Fried Apple Pie was first introduced at a McDonald’s in Tennessee in 1968. As the story goes, Litton Cochran, a McDonald’s operator in Knox County, was looking to create a dessert to complement the menu, and settled on a small fried hand pie.
Cochran’s grandson once told Knoxville news outlet WBIR that Cochran and his wife Jo experimented with the recipe for months, making and sampling a few different versions every night until settling on the version they ultimately showed to Ray Kroc…