OKC Pie Shop Bakes Over A Thousand Pies For Sale

An Oklahoma City pie shop baked over 1,500 pies as fast as they could ahead of Thanksgiving.

On a day they call "Black Pie Day," Pie Junkie sold whole pies on Wednesday, the day before the holiday.

Workers say this is their busiest day of the year.

Emily Weinberenner, a manager at Pie Junkie, says they call it controlled chaos.

“We’ve never made this many pies before. We are cramming them in every corner,” Weinberenner said.

They worked day and night leading up to Wednesday to prepare.

“We’re working around the clock in shifts. We closed an additional day because we cannot make this many pies being open to the public,” Weinberenner said.

They have Black Pie Day every year on the day before Thanksgiving for those who did not place an order with them ahead of time.

“There have been tents. Before the sun rises, there will be several people,” Weinberenner said.

They usually make around 500 pies, but this year they are tripling that.

“We love to make people happy. When they get the flavor they’ve been wanting, that’s always exciting,” Weinberenner said.

Pie Junkie opened at 10 a.m. Wednesday morning, ready to sell the pies they have been making to the line of people outside.

According to their website, they sold out within a couple of hours.