Reply #9: Fancy bakery selling overpriced apple pies. How they're "made". [View All]

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In a few affluent communities in Bergen County, New Jersey, there is a well-known bakery and its franchises. It has a reputation for decades where people will line up out the door in the mornings to get their freshly baked cakes, pies, and buns.

I worked in the bakery section for exactly one day.

First, if I hadn't asked where the bathroom was, I would have been put to work without the benefit of washing my hands.

About the apple pies. The filling is not exactly a grandma peeling apples in the backroom. It is an industrial-size can of apple filling like the ones in the supermarkets. Furthermore the filling gets into the pieshell in this manner: not carefully scooped with a large spoon or whatever and lovingly placed in the shell. Try bare hands trying not to let the syrupy apples fall from the improvised scoop and thwack! into the pieshell. And not enough to boot to make it a serious pie.

And these babies sell for more than $15 apiece.

It's been a few years since my brush with the food industry. I can only hope that at least rubber gloves are employed with the apple pies among other tasty items that the bakery sells.