The massive fire broke out at the Marigny factory on Dauphine Street between Mandeville and Spain streets before dawn.
According to company officials, two or three Hubig Pie employees were in the building at the time the fire began. The fire is believed to have started in the center of the factory, in an area called the fry-room, and spread quickly throughout the building.
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"This business fed our first responders after Katrina. Our guys put this out with their tears," said NOFD Chief Charles Parent.
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"We have and will be a good neighbor, this is hard - we're trying to wrap our heads around it," said Hubig's Pies owner Andrew Ramsey. "We have 40 employees and we will rebuild."
The New Orleans bakery opened in 1922. As a child, I remember buying Hubig's small, individualized pies from a man who traveled the neighborhoods with a pushcart. My favorite then was peach pie. Umm...yummy. Hubig's folded fried pies (of beaucoup calories), were available in the supermarkets and convenience stores here in Thibodaux, and, now and then, I'd treat myself, or Grandpère would buy me a pie, since he knew how much I liked them. I salivate when I see the pies. No joke. We'll be without them for a while, but I'm so pleased the owners will rebuild. Hubig's Pies are, as they say, an institution in New Orleans.
Below is a video of scenes from inside the bakery. You can see how the fried pies are made.
Photo on the right from Wikipedia.
