Frat boys, stoners and cheap-food gourmets around the globe are tearfully marking down 2009 as the year that the world lost a great luminary. Mahmut Aygun, the Turkish kebab king who invented that truck-food staple, the doner kebab, died early this year. Aygun will be greatly missed, but he leaves a tremendously legacy -- a low-brow foodie revolution, for which exchange students and ...

Prev Next Like they do about many other foods indigenous to Louisiana, locals rave about Hubig's fresh-baked pies, and their popularity is so widespread that anyone can order them online. This pie is quite similar in size and taste to the Hostess Fruit pie, only a little more understated (an adjective not normally associated with Southern Louisiana). The crust is just a bit lighter than ...

Prev Next This is the pie we used to purchase for our lunch on many an unhealthy day in the high school cafeteria. This taste test was our first time revisiting it, since those troubling times of the Kosovo war and "Notting Hill." Gotta say, it's a sugary overload to have all at once, but this baby holds up. A classic. Calories: 470 Price: $1.00 Prev Next ...

Prev Next This staple has that Hostess sturdy crust and sugary coating. The innards taste exactly like a lemon meringue pie -- without the best part, the meringue. Not bad, though. Fun-killing fact: This one clocks in as the fattiest pie of the collection, with 11 grams of saturated fat, or 55 percent of the recommended daily value (i.e., fat makes food not taste like crap). Calories: ...

Prev Next Being Los cheapos, we went for the $ .99 cent pie as opposed to the $1.19 pie. This must be the kids' size, because this tiny thing was gone before we knew it. It had a light, tasty crust, slightly warm apple insides -- but was not hot enough to burn customers who like to sue large corporations! All in all, McDonald's pie is good, but we're not lovin' it, and would rather just ...

Prev Next This tastes like pumpkin pie. Bland pumpkin pie with a trace of nutmeg. If you ever have a pumpkin pie craving at some non-Thanksgiving time of year, head on over to Wal-Mart for one of these babies. Otherwise, wait for homemade. Calories: 370 Price: $ .58 Prev Next ...

Prev Next If you want to eat chocolate pudding in the laziest way possible other than scooping it with your hand and shoving it in your mouth, this would be the way to do it. I can't think of any other reason to eat this pie, with the exception of being stoned. Calories: 200 Price: $1.68 for a box of 6 Prev Next ...

Prev Next We're generally in favor of not gilding the lily -- if you don't need sugar because the pie is sweetened with nature's berry goodness, then go for it. But this pie tastes like nothing. If we were given this to try while blindfolded, we wouldn't have known it was supposed to be blueberry flavored, or flavored at all for that matter. Calories: 330 Price: $ .78 Prev Next ...

Prev Next This is a tiny pie with a sturdy, sugar-iced crust. The innards are reminiscent of cherry cough medicine, only sweeter. It's better than a shot of NyQuil, but still not very good. Calories: 200 Price: $1.68 for a box of 6 Prev Next ...

It's an historic time for our nation. That's right, it's January 23 -- Pie Day. In celebration, what could be more patriotic than stuffing your face with mini pies found in convenience stores and truck stops? But which one? We decided to check out the widely available hand-size pies we found at 7-11s, Wal-Marts and McDonald's. With this authoritative ranking, from worst to best, you'll be better ...