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I don’t know what to make of the “pie for breakfast” reference. Anyone?
I think it's a native new englander local stereotype about yankees eating pie for breakfast; implying that they eat too much.
Apple pie with (cheddar) cheese apparently was a New England staple in the 17th century, but I don’t know if anyone had it for breakfast.
A very old New Englander once to my girlfriend & me that we went together “like pie with cheese.” We had idea what to make of it.
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"Ed Gein was soon arrested and held in jail for more than 30 hours, refusing to talk to any one. It wasn't until he was confronted with Bernice Warden's corpse and a slice of apple pie with cheddar cheese that he began to discuss the murders."
Pie is powerful. Lol
I've had a modern version using brie and I became a fan.
I doubt it was a staple in the 1600s. New Englanders barely knew how to feed themselves at that time. If so it certainly didn't have the sugar and spices that it is now.
Apple and Cheddar is a standard combo though. Cheddar was basically developed to go with Apples.
Seriously. What kind of pie-with-cheese are we talking here? ...cheesecake? Or pizza pie? Quiche? Or something like banana-havarti? Pineapple-brie? I'm vegan and curious.
Fruit pie. Mostly apple. It's as American as... I dunno, I'm bad at analogy.
The whole chart is apparently a reference to an E. B. White quote, and there may be some truth to the pie part.