I remember those fried apple pies with fondness, and I also remember how McDonalds, in the interest of health (ha!), changed to selling baked apple pies. Did that help? Are Americans any slimmer these days? If anything, we’re even more elephantine, and other fast-food places sell fried pies of different sorts because nature abhors a vacuum. Thanks, Clown!
I see two errors. Do you see more?
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Unhyphenated phrasal adjective. It should be apple-pie filling.
Unnecessary apostrophe. It should be 1980s, not 1980’s.
Don’t pluralize with apostrophes. (And yes, there is one exception.)
And remember, re: hyphenating phrasal adjectives:
right-thinking people
a tax-paying citizen
a violent-weather seminar
two six-foot-tall men
a naughty three-way orgy
my two-timing wife
the four-buttocked man
Arguable exception:
It’s been argued that, if the phrasal adjective (also called a compound adjective) is so familiar as to be unmistakable, no hyphen is needed, e.g., a high school student. I think this is guideline is too subjective (“so familiar”?), so my recommendation is to err on the side of hyphenation. But take risks if you want. I can’t stop you.
Other exceptions:
Some argue that certain proper-noun phrases should be exempt from hyphenation, like an African American artist, a Rube Goldberg contraption, an Arnold Schwarzenegger scenario. Here, too, tread lightly. We often write, for example, the Asian-American community. That’s what the term “hyphenated American” is all about, ja?
If the first word in the phrasal adjective is an adverb ending in -ly, don’t hyphenate. Think: a quickly changing situation. (Not: quickly-changing.)
And remember that phrasal adjectives are hyphenated when they come before the noun they modify, not after.
a well-written story
The story was well written.