Everyone loves pie. Especially during Thanksgiving. Add a little whip cream or cool whip and boom, dessert. But what are Patti La Belle pies? And why are they so famous? That question has popped into so many heads after reading headline after headline about how these pies are flying off Wal-Mart Shelves.

Averaging at about one pie sale per second and selling on Ebay for up to $34.00 dollars when they originally cost only about $3.50 cents at Wal-Mart. It is clear— The Patti Le Belle Pie craze is here.

After, sales being “OK” as reported by NPR in September, why is it that the sales of these pies are causing Wal-Mart to reevaluate their lives and even causing Patti La Belle’s team some troubles? The pie has gained so much media coverage, that people are buying and demanding more, causing that Patti Le Belle’s team come up with ways to increase production in time for the holidays.

But why? The reason is one man named James Wright. He did a singing review on Patti Le Belle’s Pie causing people to just go out and buy more. He has made La Belle’s pie so famous on the web, that it has officially sold out and Wal-Mart has said, that more pies won’t become available until early December. So if you didn’t get your pie for thanksgiving- sorry or else you could always get one on Ebay but with great flavor, comes great cost.