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Posted on 01/10/2009 11:08:28 AM PST by EveningStar
Don Callender, credited with turning his mother's modest home-based bakery business into a restaurant and pie dynasty in Southern California, has died.
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That’s too bad. I always liked the product....especially the multipak of Chicken Pot Pies
I don’t know about the frozen foods but the restaurant sucks.
Really?
Since when?
30 years ago, I enjoyed it a lot in San Diego.
Never been to the restaurant, but the frozen stuff is the best of the frozen meals, I think. Kroger sells them and I always stock up for times when I don’t want to ‘cook’.
What happened when you ate at the restaurant? Get dumped by your girlfriend over dinner and it scarred you for life to such a degree you had to comment the day the founder dies.
I liked MC restraurants as well. Good simple food, and great pies. ...especially their berry pies. I used to go to the location on Olympic Blvd. (a little west of La Cienega Blvd) in L.A. in the 1970s. ....now long gone.
I think the restaurant is Perkins.
We still have the pot pies in our super - good thing the family loves them.
The best is the no sugar added fresh strawberry pies.
RIP. Restaurant quality varies, but the frozen meals are yummy and reasonably priced. Love the pot pies that really do get a crisp, flaky crust from the microwave.
Marie Callender’s is the perfect place to meet family members after church on Sunday mornings.
Those and the apple were my favorites, too.
Doesn’t Walmart or Sam’s still sell in the frozen section some such?
I apologize, I did not think about that when I posted.
You can still get the chicken pot pies in Costco’s freezer section. Their cornbread is the best.
I have an MC lasagna in the freezer and will have it for dinner in his honor.
Aw. He done good.
It’s funny, my m-i-l and I was just talking about Marie Callender’s restaurants not long ago. She said she & my f-i-l finally learned not to go to dinner there if you want a slice of pie. The portions were huge. You have to make a pie date to go there for pie. :)
Whoever’s saying that you can’t find MC frozen stuff in grocery stories anymore, Albertson’s in the high desert has tons of them. Saw them yesterday. (I would like them but they’re way too salty.) The pies are great, though.
RIP.
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