Think the Frisbee could NOT have appeared in prehistoric times? shortweird begs to differ as over the last 2 centuries alone – forget about going as far back as Greco-Roman discus throwing, or clay targets used in skeetshooting – many people claim to have invented the Frisbee® and my thanks go to the interwebz for letting me find out about at least a few of them.
The Frisbie Baking Company (1871-1958) of Bridgeport, Connecticut, made pies that
were sold to hungry college students, who soon discovered that the pie tins, when thrown, could provide hours of amusement. Now so obsessed with throwing, many of these students tragically died of starvation, having forgotten that the purpose of the pies in the flying disk toys were actually meant to be heated and eaten, not heated and used as footwarmers on cold winter nights.
But the modern Frisbee® story TRULY begins in 1948, when a Los Angeles building inspector named Walter Frederick Morrison and his partner Warren Franscioni decided to try to help stop the starvation still happening on college campuses.
They invented a plastic disk that could fly further and with better accuracy than a tin pie plate – and in fact, be sold for less because there was no pie being sold along with it. Morrison later ditched his partner (due to Franscioni’s death by starvation) and produced his own flying disk called the Pluto Platter, to cash in on the growing popularity of UFOs with the American public. Tragically, students were still starving, but now also dying of frostbite because these new plastic Frisbees were no longer being sold with the heatable ‘pie’ interior packaging to use as footwarmers on 
cold winter nights.
In 1955, a new toy company called ‘Wham-O’ convinced Morrison to sell them the rights to his design. With a deal signed, Wham-O began production of more Pluto Platters.
Wham-O was in search of a catchy new name to help increase sales, after hearing about the original use of the term ‘Frisbie’ they created the registered trademark Frisbee ®. The idea of calling the new disks Foodbee® as a way of getting students to eat the disks instead of starving was ultimately dropped, due to plastic being mostly inedible.
In 1964, the first professional Frisbee® model went on sale and in 1967, students in Maplewood, New Jersey invented Ultimate Frisbee®, a recognized sport that is a cross between football, soccer and eating. Today the Frisbee® is owned by Mattel Toy Manufacturers, only one of at least sixty manufacturers of flying discs, none of whom today ship their product with pies. Perhaps not coincidentally, student starvation is now at an all-time low, and has remained at a modest 10 percent for the last 4 years.
Now this site is called shortweird, and here’s where reading this history of the Frisbee® pays off for you: Upon his death, Wham-O Vice President of Marketing ‘Steady’ Ed Headrick was cremated and, in accordance with his final requests, his ashes were molded into memorial Frisbees and given to family and close friends. True story.
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The first (and only) FrisPIE Flying Meal ® was thrown across the Frisbie Pie Company kitchen by Head Cook Jacob Stern. While doing final flight testing the day before they were to be released to the public, Stern told his colleague Klaus Rubens to ‘go long’. Only the pie itself ever reached Rubens. The flash of light from the dematerializing plastic disk temporarily blinded him and the pie – still in this dimension but now without a dish under it – struck him instead fully in the solar plexus, ruining the pie and causing deep purple stains on his apron that his wife never forgave him for.
But where did the Frisbee®-pie-plate go? No-one seems to know… here’s one theory…
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“Unlucky Caveman” Episode 9 | Frisbee Too
Featuring: Kris Siddiqi as Thag
Hair & Makeup: Debra Corbeil
Set Design: Rui Santos
Graphics/Titles: Vince Robles
Editing and Special Effects: Paul Hessel
Post-Audio: Pete Yake
Created, Produced and written for YTV by: Marcel St. Pierre