惭肠顿辞苍补濒诲鈥檚 is frying up some apple pies to honor .
The company said Tuesday it鈥檚 bringing back fried apple pies for the first time in more than three decades. They鈥檒l be available at most U.S. restaurants for a limited time starting June 23.
is one of several fast-food companies offering semiquincentennial treats. Burger King recently debuted its Firecracker Cookie Pie, which has a sugar cookie crust and red, white and blue star-shaped sprinkles. Sonic is offering a red, white and blue slush float for $2.50. Hardee’s has an iced Star-Spangled Biscuit with red and blue sprinkles.
Here鈥檚 a look at 惭肠顿辞苍补濒诲鈥檚 fried apple pies by the numbers:
鈥� 1968: The year 惭肠顿辞苍补濒诲鈥檚 introduced both its fried apple pie and the Big Mac hamburger. Litton Cochran, a McDonald’s franchisee in Tennessee, developed the rectangle-shaped pie, which was served in a cardboard sleeve. 1968 was a momentous year that included the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis and Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles, protests against the Vietnam War and the signing of a federal law prohibiting housing discrimination.
鈥� 1992: The year 惭肠顿辞苍补濒诲鈥檚 replaced the fried apple pie with a baked version in most of the U.S., responding to growing consumer and cholesterol consumption. The U.S. Department of Agriculture first published its the same year. Fried apple pie remained on McDonald’s menus and is still sold in some other countries, including the United Kingdom, Mexico, Greece, Australia and China.
鈥� 230: Number of calories in 惭肠顿辞苍补濒诲鈥檚 baked apple pie. That鈥檚 10 more calories than the fried version, according to the company鈥檚 website. A cup of boiled lentils, a single almond Snickers bar and a grande Frappucino from Starbucks have the same calorie count, according to publicly available nutrition information.
鈥� 130: Number of members of the Facebook group 鈥淏ring Back the Original 惭肠顿辞苍补濒诲鈥檚 Fried Apple Pie.鈥� By comparison, there are 1,100 members lobbying McDonald’s in the 鈥淏ring Back the McRib鈥� Facebook group and 928 members of the 鈥淢cDonald’s, Bring Back the Szechuan Sauce鈥� Facebook group.
鈥� 170 million: Number of American-grown apples that 惭肠顿辞苍补濒诲鈥檚 says it serves every year at its U.S. stores.
鈥� 35: Height, in feet, of a giant fried apple pie that 惭肠顿辞苍补濒诲鈥檚 is installing on Route 66 in Joliet, Illinois, near McDonald’s Chicago headquarters. That’s about the height of a three-story house and some species of palm trees. The giant apple pie will stay in place until July 4, the company said.
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