Review # 24: Marie Callendar's frozen chicken pot pie

There are two reasons that this is the best pot pie you can get anywhere. First of all, when you get a pot pie they some either with the crust lining the inside of the bowl, or just with a layer of crust on top. I've found that if you get a pot pie at a decent restaraunt where they cook all the food from scratch, you just get the layer on top. Even if you get one from KFC, you just get the layer on top. Most frozen pies, however, have the crust throughout, and Marie Callendar's is no exception. I love the crust, I guess I should've mentioned that, but the other thing that makes this the best pot pie is the thing that separates it from all the other frozen, fully-crusted pies. When you put, oh, say a Banquet pot pie in the microwave the crust becomes a soggy gooey mess and chances are that it's still frozen in the middle. Marie Callendar's stand out in that when you cook it in the microwave, not only do you shave about 45 minutes off of the oven cooking time, but you can't even tell it was nuked. If you put it in for about twelve minutes the crust is perfectly cooked and the inside is hot. So hot I always have to let it cool off. These pot pies can be kind of expensive, but it has been my experience that they usually go on sale for a decent price. They're usually $3.99 at the QFC, but I got mine tonight for $2. Not bad.