Happy pie day! Now I'll think of something to say... Umm... People stereotypisize apple pie as being quintessentially 18th century American, but surprisingly they were first recorded in Britain in 1684. Lemon Meringue is much more American, and pies with an open crust and/or a meringue on top often tend to be American inventions. I'll say more tomorrow... Or maybe the day after that... Or maybe later.
I always figured apple pies were British. Oh, and one of your uncles invariably, in his childhood, asked for lemon meringue pie when the family went out to dinner. You have to guess which.
ReplyDeleteHmm... I guess the one with too much money.
DeleteI'm afraid that guess leaves out all of us.
DeleteOh really? How would one who has the most busy job in Philadelphia and $26,000 camera?
DeleteIt's not a $26,000 camera, and his law deals with the poorest people in the system who make take lots of time, but can't pay lots of money.
DeleteSo that means when we say, As American as Apple Pie, we meant that the American way is to bring over traditions from other lands and then forget that they didn't originate here. I guess there weren't even apples here until the Europeans brought them, so how indigenous American could an apple pie be?
ReplyDeleteNot particularly indigenous. The them 'As American as Apple Pie' means that the said event or object was invented in an eastern civilization very long ago and stoled and taken credit for by western civilization, including things such as noodles, tea, money(the flat kind), tech support, monocles, and chess.
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