As the story goes, The Beatles were nearing the end of a 2-week
tour that crisscrossed the US – it might have been 1965. They stopped at a
little eatery in California where they found excellent pie. (I’ve never met a
Brit who didn’t get really excited about a good pie.) Ringo was positively over
the moon about it, and made a big deal about the restaurant in an interview afterwards.
He had no idea Marie Callender’s was a chain, or that it got about as much
respect here as Little Chef back home. There used to be a Marie Callender’s in
Midvale (I believe there’s a steak house there now) where we would pick up pies
for Thanksgiving and Christmas. All the remaining Utah Marie Callender’s closed months ago, when their parent company went bankrupt. The Millcreek location
was reopened by popular demand last week, just in time for the holidays: another
thing to be thankful for.
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