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You’ll have to work 9 to 5 to pay for this pie.
A Dollywood parkgoer has gone viral on TikTok for sharing the price of apple pie at the Tennessee amusement park, rocking some viewers to their core.
The five-second clip posted this week by user Stonewall Kelsey reveals the 25-pound apple pie sells for a whopping $229.
“I decided to post the video because I knew it would cause some controversy amongst the Dolly Parton fans,” Kelsey told The Post on Thursday.
“I didn’t actually get any of the pie but all of the other concessions at the park were great so I’m sure the pie would have been worth the $230!”
A single slice costs $19.99, according to the chalkboard signage at the Spotlight Bakery that Kelsey captured during his visit.
The Dollywood Company’s public relations manager, Ellen Liston, told The Post that the pie is made up of about 35 to 40 medium-sized apples that, when peeled, come in at 25 pounds.
Technically, she said, the pie weighs more than 25 pounds because of the crust — but either way, it’s huge and delicious.
The pie was actually created as a treat for Dollywood’s quarter-century celebration several years ago.
“For our 25th anniversary season, around the park, the different teams on park came up with different ideas and things that might be a fun way to commemorate this anniversary,” Liston told The Post. “So, our culinary team thought, ‘Well, wouldn’t it be cool to have like something that was 25 pounds?’ So they came up with the idea of having a 25-pound apple pie.”
Now that Dollywood has just opened for its 38th season, the pie is still going strong.
It’s one of the top three most popular bakery items at the park, next to their cinnamon bread and cinnamon buns, and on a typical busy day, the park will bake two to four full pies depending on the season — and they always sell out by the time the day is over, according to Liston.
An individual slice, which retailed for $18.99 in 2018, weighs 3 pounds, per Visit My Smokies, while the entire pie used to cost $189.99.
“It’s priced that way for several reasons,” Liston explained. “One, because of all the ingredients that go into it, it’s kind of a time-intensive thing. It also includes the giant cast iron skillet with it. It’s just all incorporated into it.”
But fans were divided on the price as they weighed in on Kelsey’s clip.
“Does Dolly come with it?” one user joked.
Another claimed: “Went to Dollywood last year for the first time and EVERYTHING IS WAAAAY OVER PRICED. If you took $200 then you can afford a shirt and a bag of candy.”
“They could put Dolly on top of it and I wouldn’t want it for that kind of money!!💯,” someone else declared.
Others find the pie to be appeeling, despite the price.
“I mean..it is 25 pounds to be fair,” one commenter pointed out. “A normal one is 4ish.”
A second viewer insisted, “But if you get the pie you get to keep the skillet and it’s a fancy cast iron sooo.”
Parton opened Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, in 1986. A one-day ticket costs $89 for people between 10 and 61 years old.
“It’s a fun thing to try,” Liston said about the pie. “It’s delicious. It’s a lot of apples, and you know, when you think about apple pie, you think about just all-American, and so, you’re eating an all-American food in an all-American place, a theme park and with everybody’s favorite Dolly, so it kind of fits in the scope of what we have to offer.”
“We like to do things big and it’s just a fun item.”
In 2019, Delish sent journalist Tess Koman to Dollywood to taste all of their mouthwatering treats and, of course, the apple pie made her list of faves.
“If I could go back in time and swap my wedding cake out for this, that’s maybe something I would consider,” she said, as the camera zoomed in on a forkful of the immense apple filling.
And, it looks like people do just that — Liston said that some people have the pie sent to them and have it as their groom’s cake or for family reunions.
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