Is Apple Pie Actually American?

In the video today, we're looking at whether or not Apple Pie is actually an American thing, and how the expression "American as Apple Pie" came to be.

[michaelcherry]

Another Bonus Fact:
In the 1972, CBC Radio host Peter Gzowski held a listener contest to finish the phrase "As Canadian As..."
The winner, a 17 year old student named Heather Scott, finished the phrase with "As Canadian As Possible Under The Circumstances".
Kind of says it all...

[mr.stratholm]

You forgot to mention that they tried translating "got milk?" for the Mexican market and failed big time because the translation read to Mexicans as "Are you lactating?".

[magnvss]

From Apple pie to poo poo training almost with no transition, and from there to got milk.... Oh Simon.

[rachdarastrix]

USA: "We invented apple pie."

Bronze Age Europe: "I don't remember seeing you on that day."

[JiveDadson]

I came across a Johnny Appleseed tree once in Ohio. The apples were small and bitter. The problem with apples is that they do not breed true. That is to say, you can plant seeds from a tree you like, and the characteristics of the resulting tree are unpredictable. Growers use grafting.

[jan-seli]

American as apple pie is a great phrase. It recognize that someone doesn't need to come from America to be distinctly American.

[selalewow]

"As American as apple pie" i.e. of European descent.

[glenngriffon]

so it came from all over europe and found a home in the states where it's european ancestry was forgotten and outright denied.... yup that sounds pretty american to me.

[BritishBeachcomber]

3:09 Perhaps the expression should be, "as British as America and apple pie".

[ltmcolen]

So In Dutch there is a saying that goes: "having an apple for the thirst."
Which means as much as having a nest egg.

[robinpayne]

Actually, mom used to make Crab Apple preserves and jelly. They taste a lot like plumbs when made in to jelly and preserves.

[patraic]

I live in an area where John Chapman planted. He's quite the local legend. I can add that in the Colonial and Federalist periods in most places to incorporate as a village there were several requirements. One of those was to have a minimum number of acres dedicated to Apples orchards. For hard cider sure but more importantly for the production of vinegar. Vinegar was indispensable for the preservation of a broad range of food goods as well as for medicinal purposes of disinfecting things.

[rogerhinman]

Like nearly everything else American, it's imported one way or another.

[tiberiu_nicolae]

As an European that had apple pie in my childhood... this is a weird saying...

[marcpeterson]

It's as American as dutch apple pie, french fries and danish pastry.

[HelamanGile]

I've eaten crab apple pie also depends on the Crabapple you have I've had pretty good ones

[tommy]

Why am I not surprised at all by this? 😂

[DiracComb.]

I completely forgot this video was about apple pie.

[friendlyone]

We are familiar with "an apple a day keeps the doctor away." Earlier, the expression was: "An apple before you go to bed, the doctor will beg for his bread."

[shanecarubbi]

When I was a young kid I lived in a town called Wenatchee in Washington state. It's know as the apple growing capital of the world. There were orchards of all sorts of apples and other stone fruits for miles and miles, also more potato's come from the East side of Washington than in all of Idaho.