It is a well known fact to those that know it well* that the best way to get apples into your apple pie (upside down or otherwise) is to take them from a state of spheroid to a state of peeled-and-sliced(oid). And so the parts of the pie making team involved with the actual creation of the pie set out to divest the apples of their skins and spherical natures.
*Apologizes to Robert Rankin, from whom this line is blatantly stolen. Of course, he probably wouldn't mind because he probably likes pie. Also, he uses it twelve times in every book, so he must really like to say it.
