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resident, Frisbee player, collector and historian, acquired the license and distribution rights to the Frisbie Pie Co. He re-launched the company in November 2016 in Bridgeport, Connecticut and began distributing pies throughout the region in early 2017. They sell pies based on the original Frisbie
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toy company, had the rights to a plastic flying disc design, called the "Pluto Platter". To capitalize on the craze over the pie tins, known colloquially as "Frisbies", they took the same name for their toy, changing the spelling to
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campus in nearby Vermont. Middlebury students discovered that the pie tins, inverted, had an
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Frisbie supplied pies to many Connecticut retailers and restaurants, including the
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The Bridgeport pie factory closed in 1958; Frisbie brand pies were bought out by
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shape, which enabled them to be thrown, with practice, in various
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Bridgeport, Connecticut
www.frisbiepie.com


pie
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Middlebury College
airfoil
trajectories
Wham-O
Frisbee
Table Talk Pies
Connecticut
Back to the Future Part III
Marty McFly
Michael J. Fox
derringer
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen
Thomas F. Wilson
Doctor Emmett Brown
Christopher Lloyd
Ken Westerfield
Ultimate (sport)
Flying disc games


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