A Flying Pie Tin: How the Frisbee Took Shape

The smell of warm pastry drifted out of the small Connecticut bakery. Customers came and went. Pies moved from oven to counter. Tin pans stacked in neat columns behind the register. Outside, a few college students lingered. One of them tossed an empty pie tin into the air. It spun. It glided. It didn’t fall straight down. Someone else threw it back. They laughed. No one thought they were inventing a sport. They were playing with trash. And accidentally sketching the outline of one of the world’s most recognizable flying toys. The Pie Company with a Strange Name The bakery was called Frisbie Pie Company. Its tins were stamped with the Frisbie name. Yale students in the early 20th century…