We hate to list some pies as the worst, but a few weren't good, and the flipside of the Best is the Worst.

1.   Blueberry Pie -- Northside Cafe -- Winterset, Iowa

Blueberryless pie.  Not a very good crust with some blue jelly slapped inside.  The hamburger was good, but the pie was the worst.

2.   Creme Brulee Pie -- Pie in the Sky Cafe Booth -- North Dakota State Fair -- Minot, North Dakota

We'd never had a creme brulee pie, so I was anxious to give it a try.  I guess there's a reason why we'd never seen one before -- just can't be done with a pie.  And a fair, where the pies have to be made as inexpensively as possible to sell at a low price, was the last place to try an "exotic" pie.  Becky was really nice, so we hate to rate her pie as one of the worst...but we gotta call 'em as we see 'em.

3.   Apple Dumpling -- Gwennie's Restaurant -- Anchorage, Alaska

Everything was poor at Gwennie's.

4.   Pecan Pie -- Fairmont Hotel -- New Orleans, Louisiana

I thought it was downright criminal for one of the nicest hotels in the deep south city of New Orleans to serve a manufactured pecan pie.  It was like a packaged pie that you buy in a grocery store.  Very disappointing.

5.   Peach Cobbler -- Marriott Suites -- Las Vegas, Nevada

I think one should never order pie in a nice hotel in a big city.  It's never very good.  Virtually all major chains and fancy restaurants buy their desserts frozen from a group of national dessert manufacturers.  Good pie is almost always found in local cafes and diners.

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