In the past three months, I've had 3 pies from Fly...

In the past three months, I've had 3 pies from Flying Saucer. And they all have been very different...our first pie was a strawberry cream pie and it was one of the best pies we've ever had. We couldn't wait to go back but I wish we had stuck with the strawberry cream...next time out, we took home a chocolate cream pie (ignoring the dire warning from another review on this page about the chocolate pie). I couldn't believe this was from the same place. The crust was okay but the chocolate really wasn't pie filling....it was more of a weak chocolate pudding. But the worst part was the top half of the pie which was what their web page optimistically calls a "non-dairy whipped topping". I don't know exactly what that means, but this topping wasn't good. It had very little flavor, was not at all sweet, and had a greasy, oily aftertaste. For the first time in my 51 years, we threw away half of a chocolate cream pie. But we still had memories of that great strawberry cream pie, so we didn't want to give up on Flying Saucer. So we went back to break the tie. Unfortunately, our third pie didn't settle the argument as it was half good and half bad. We got a Boston Cream Pie and the bottom half was good...yellow cake and a cream filling. But, inexplicably, the top half was not coated with chocolate icing like every other Boston Cream Pie in the world, but was topped with an inch of that same nasty "non-dairy whipped topping" that was featured on the chocolate cream pie.
We had friends over that night and all 6 of us agreed that topping was not good...proving it wasn't just a matter of my own personal taste. But we discovered if we scraped off that whipped topping and spread some chocolate icing on it, the Boston Cream Pie was pretty good. But why go through that effort if I can buy a good, true, chocolate iced Boston Cream Pie from Kroger or Marie Callender's or Mrs Smith for half the cost? So my recommendation...if you're in the area, stop in and get a strawberry cream pie. But don't go out of your way and whatever you do, avoid the chocolate cream and Boston cream pies.