lol, yes, the tiny drumsticks! and the potatoes always had a cold center with boilin hot butter substance on the top!
Oh, and the cranberry compode (or whatever it was) would always have a few stray peas in it when you peeled back the foil!
The chicken was horribly soggy, but was such a treat for some unknown reason. And yes, my mom could fix much better, but I think it was the novelty of it at the time. We were dirt poor, but for some reason, that shiny tray made me and my siblings feel like we were living large!
Also, after being washed out, it was not uncommon for us boys to make robot masks out of the foil tray and run around the yard with our home made lazer beam guns (usually just tinker toys or erector set creations).
The last good frozen pot pie I had was years ago, it was a Mrs’s something. It had such large chunks of white meat in it, and it was big enough for the wife and I (this was 15 years ago I bet). Well, a couple of years ago, we saw what we thought was the same brand, it looked the same, it was a “Mrs’s” something or another, so we got a few. They were horrible. There was very little meat, the crust was nasty, and then we looked at the box and they were owned by some big company (guessing Kraft or something). Not sure if they were bought out, or we just got a brand we though was the same, but we don’t do the frozen ones after that.