Category: Community Partners

Table Talk Pies teaming up with Rocco’s Doughnut Company

Table Talk Pies teaming up with Rocco’s Doughnut Company for another batch of special donuts

By Tim Jones | tjones@masslive.com

What could make an already-great pie better? Turning it into a donut, of course. Thankfully two Central Massachusetts businesses had the same idea.

Worcester’s Table Talk Pies is once again teaming up with Millbury-based Rocco’s Doughnut Company to bring back donuts based on Table Talk’s popular pie flavors.

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Wormtown Brewery and Worcester Red Sox celebrate partnership

A toast to the new partnership between Worcester’s Wormtown Brewery and the Worcester Red Sox Triple-A baseball team was particularly special Saturday as members of both organizations raised a can of local beer brewed with baseball bats.

Wormtown and the Worcester Red Sox recently announced that Wormtown would be the team’s home town brewery, an announcement that called for a celebration.

The Shrewsbury Street brewery was decked out with baseball-themed decorations and games Saturday as dozens of people filed in to taste the specialty brew alongside Worcester favorites like Table Talk Pies and pigs in a blanket made out of George’s Coney Island hot dogs by Crust Bakeshop.

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Wormtown tapped as official brewery of Worcester Red Sox

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Telegram & Gazette Staff

Feb 12, 2019

WORCESTER — Wormtown Brewery has been named the official hometown brewery of the Worcester Red Sox and will produce a specially-brewed beer in honor of the Red Sox Triple-A affiliate.

The beer is called “Welcome to Worcester, $1.25,” a spin on Adam Sandler’s bit “Toll Booth Willy” about a Worcester toll taker collecting a $1.25 toll.

“For us, Wormtown has always been about quality and local,” said Ben Roesch, brewmaster/founder of Wormtown Brewery. “Putting the Red Sox Triple-A affiliate in a brand new downtown ballpark is as local and quality as it gets. Our ‘Welcome to Worcester $1.25’ commemorative beer will be a classic Vienna lager featuring an amber color, light caramel sweetness, and clean crisp finish. The fact that a $1.25 donation from each pint will go to the team’s charitable foundation makes it even better. This beer will pair amazingly well with a Coney Island Hot Dog, a slice of Table Talk apple pie, and a side of Triple-A Baseball.”

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On Pi Day, Table Talk delivers to Worcester schoolkids (Telegram & Gazette)

By George Barnes
Telegram & Gazette Staff

Posted Mar 14, 2019 at 2:59 PM

WORCESTER – On Pi Day, Table Talk Pies handed out thousands of its iconic treats to public schoolchildren, and it was much appreciated.

“I like this the best,” said Douglas Monteroza, a pupil at Canterbury Street Elementary School, holding a chocolate eclair pie that he and friend Maytham Abdulkareen received from Table Talk Pies President Harry Kokkinis. “The cream is so good and it is perfect with the chocolate.”

Mr. Kokkinis visited the school Thursday morning, accompanied by several pallets of Table Talk pies. Mr. Kokkinis, along with employee Tara Tula, who was dressed as a Table Talk pie, handed out pies at lunch hour to any student who wanted one.

Pi Day was created to celebrate pi, a mathematical constant and irrational number used to define the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. It is celebrated on March 14 because its first three of an infinite number of non-repeating digits are 3.14.

“We like to celebrate (Pi Day) with schools in Worcester by giving away pies and help math teachers with their lessons on the importance of the number pi,” Mr. Kokkinis said. “It is a number that helps us create circles. We use pi every day and we use it when we make our pies, as our pies are round.”

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Pie Company Has A Rogue Twitter Impostor, But Decides To Be Totally Cool With It

techdirt.com Wednesday Jan 23rd, 2019 7:30 PM

In the dual golden ages of internet and snark, individuals and companies are offered many opportunities to decide how to deal with people using social media to have fun at their expense. In most cases, this goes exactly how you’d imagine: strong-arm tactics to shut down social media accounts, lawsuits to silence fake or parody accounts, and even entire government agencies getting upset over one of its own tweeting against the agency line. Missing in all of this, as you may have noticed, is any sense of humor or fun about this sort of thing.

But level heads do occasionally prevail. Such appears to be the case with the folks at Table Talk Pies, a century-old pie-slinging company that decided in the past few years to have a better online presence, but also recently discovered someone out there is impersonating the company on Twitter.

Take a quick glance at Table Talk Pies’ Twitter account and at first, everything seems normal. The 95-year-old Worcester company often tweets out its “pie of the day” deals – three of a daily rotating flavor for the special price of $1 – posts photos from events around the city and gets mentioned by other local businesses like Wormtown Brewery.

But a closer look reveals some strange inconsistencies.

“the honorable, pumpkin is 3 for $1 today”

“as the sun shines regardless, may luck be ever on the side with you!! #StPatricksDay2018 #pies #lucky”

“have not only a lemon but i smile! #threeforonedollar”

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