Step 1 : Introduction to the question "The Frisbee is named after a company that sold what?"
The Frisbee is named after the Frisbie Pie Company, a Connecticut-based bakery founded in the late 19th century that specialized in selling pies. In the early 20th century, college students—most notably at Yale University—began tossing the company’s empty metal pie tins across campus for fun, often shouting “Frisbie!” as a warning to anyone nearby. When plastic flying discs were later developed and marketed in the 1950s, the spelling was deliberately changed to “Frisbee,” but the name remains a lasting tribute to the humble pie tins
