In 1871, William Russell Frisbee founded the Frisbee Pie Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Back in 1920, Frisbee pies became popular with students at Yale University. They discovered that not only could you eat the pie, but you could also play with the tin afterward.

It was another 30 years before the Wham-O Toy Company, fresh from its success with the hula hoop, would try to market a flying saucer toy. Wham-0 called its toy the Pluto Platter.

In 1959, a company executive heard about the game they played at Yale and decided to change the product's name. Frisbee is remembered today, not for his pies, but for the aerodynamic properties of his pie tins.