Fried pie is what you make when the peaches on the tree are getting over-ripe and it's too hot to light the oven.

Make a little dough, sugar up the peaches, slap them in the dough, pinch it shut and fry it up. http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/byauthor/215602

And what does she say about some recipes that claim the little pies can be baked instead of fried?

"I think they'd taste like bones."
Karen