{"id":10920,"date":"2025-11-26T20:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T02:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10920"},"modified":"2026-02-06T09:59:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:59:43","slug":"burnt-marie-callenders-pie-became-a-thanksgiving-meme-heres-what-really-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/11\/26\/burnt-marie-callenders-pie-became-a-thanksgiving-meme-heres-what-really-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnt Marie Callender’s Pie Became a Thanksgiving Meme: Here’s What Really Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"
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C|Net<\/a> As Thanksgiving approaches, let’s look back at our interview with the viral grandma who torched a pie and became a meme that starts circulating again every November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Memes come out of nowhere, and they don’t take holidays off. On Thanksgiving 2021, a Georgia grandmother named Sharon Weiss burned a Marie Callender’s pumpkin pie, and posted a photo to the food company’s Facebook page, bitterly writing, “Thanks Marie Calendar for ruining Thanksgiving dessert.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this was no ordinary holiday dinner mistake. The pie in the photo looked like it had been dug out of the ruins of Pompeii. The crust was black, the filling was black, and in a delightful addition, the top of the blackened filling had been broken to show the softer — but still totally torched — filling underneath. <\/p>\n\n\n\n