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kudzita brought up this afternoon that when she heads up for grad school visits in the midwest, apparently she has to try apple pie with cheese on pain of death or somesuch. and oh! how it warms the cockles of my heart, that apple pie with cheese is not merely a new england oddity, but that such a fine tradition is alive and well in another cheese-loving state.
i admit i, too, was suspicious of such a strange combination. i'd had apples with cheese before, which was all well and good, but cheese on a pie? i already disliked cheesecake. (and still do, except for a good bailey's no-bake cheesecake, that's more like a chocolate pudding in pie form anyway.) luckily,slwands and elemmire7 made me try it anyway, way back when at one of our big e excursions, and, well, YUM.
so i mentioned this chatting to various people today, and the universal reaction has been, "apple pie with cheese?" along with generally curled-up noses or bugged-out eyes. so i go to google it, to see just how limited the tradition really is, and i discover that someone wrote a poem about it. and that website is popuppy, so dear mr. field, i thank you, and am documenting your poem here. because, dude, AWESOME.
and kudz, there's even a wee bit of latin in there ;)
Apple Pie with Cheese, by Eugene Field:
Full many a sinful notion
Conceived of foreign powers
Has come across the ocean
To harm this land of ours;
And heresies called fashions
Have modesty effaced,
And baleful, morbid passions
Corrupt our native taste.
O tempora! O mores!
What profanations these
That seek to dim the glories
Of apple-pie and cheese!
I'm glad my education
Enables me to stand
Against the vile temptation
Held out on every hand;
Eschewing all the tittles
With vanity replete,
I'm loyal to the victuals
Our grandsires used to eat!
I'm glad I've got three willing boys
To hang around and tease
Their mother for the filling joys
Of apple-pie and cheese!
Your flavored creams and ices
And your dainty angel-food
Are mighty fine devices
To regale the dainty dude;
Your terrapin and oysters,
With wine to wash 'em down,
Are just the thing for roisters
When painting of the town;
No flippant, sugared notion
Shall my appetite appease,
Or bate my soul's devotion
To apple-pie and cheese!
The pie my Julia makes me
(God bless her Yankee ways!)
On memory's pinions takes me
To dear Green Mountain days;
And seems like I see Mother
Lean on the window-sill,
A-handin' me and brother
What she knows 'll keep us still;
And these feelings are so grateful,
Says I, "Julia, if you please,
I'll take another plateful
Of that apple-pie and cheese!"
And cheese! No alien it, sir,
That's brought across the sea,--
No Dutch antique, nor Switzer,
Nor glutinous de Brie;
There's nothing I abhor so
As mawmets of this ilk--
Give me the harmless morceau
That's made of true-blue milk!
No matter what conditions
Dyspeptic come to feaze,
The best of all physicians
Is apple-pie and cheese!
Though ribalds may decry 'em,
For these twin boons we stand,
Partaking thrice per diem
Of their fulness out of hand;
No enervating fashion
Shall cheat us of our right
To gratify our passion
With a mouthful at a bite!
We'll cut it square or bias,
Or any way we please,
And faith shall justify us
When we carve our pie and cheese!
De gustibus, 'tis stated,
Non disputandum est.
Which meaneth, when translated,
That all is for the best.
So let the foolish choose 'em
The vapid sweets of sin,
I will not disabuse 'em
Of the heresy they're in;
But I, when I undress me
Each night, upon my knees
Will ask the Lord to bless me
With apple-pie and cheese!
edit: of course, asshamanix pointed out (i think. i can't remember whether i brought it up first or he did), you also have:
Jim: Uh, what exactly does third base feel like?
Oz: Like warm apple pie.
Jim: Yeah?
Oz: Yeah.
Jim: Apple pie, huh?
Oz: Uh huh.
Jim: McDonald's or homemade?
The pie should be eaten "while it is yet florescent, white or creamy yellow, with the merest drip of candied juice along the edges, (as if the flavor were so good to itself that its own lips watered!) of a mild and modest warmth, the sugar suggesting jelly, yet not jellied, the morsels of apple neither dissolved nor yet in original substance, but hanging as it were in a trance between the spirit and the flesh of applehood ... then, O blessed man, favored by all the divinities! eat, give thanks, and go forth, 'in apple-pie order!'"
so
kudzita brought up this afternoon that when she heads up for grad school visits in the midwest, apparently she has to try apple pie with cheese on pain of death or somesuch. and oh! how it warms the cockles of my heart, that apple pie with cheese is not merely a new england oddity, but that such a fine tradition is alive and well in another cheese-loving state.i admit i, too, was suspicious of such a strange combination. i'd had apples with cheese before, which was all well and good, but cheese on a pie? i already disliked cheesecake. (and still do, except for a good bailey's no-bake cheesecake, that's more like a chocolate pudding in pie form anyway.) luckily,
slwands and elemmire7 made me try it anyway, way back when at one of our big e excursions, and, well, YUM.so i mentioned this chatting to various people today, and the universal reaction has been, "apple pie with cheese?" along with generally curled-up noses or bugged-out eyes. so i go to google it, to see just how limited the tradition really is, and i discover that someone wrote a poem about it. and that website is popuppy, so dear mr. field, i thank you, and am documenting your poem here. because, dude, AWESOME.
and kudz, there's even a wee bit of latin in there ;)
Apple Pie with Cheese, by Eugene Field:
Full many a sinful notion
Conceived of foreign powers
Has come across the ocean
To harm this land of ours;
And heresies called fashions
Have modesty effaced,
And baleful, morbid passions
Corrupt our native taste.
O tempora! O mores!
What profanations these
That seek to dim the glories
Of apple-pie and cheese!
I'm glad my education
Enables me to stand
Against the vile temptation
Held out on every hand;
Eschewing all the tittles
With vanity replete,
I'm loyal to the victuals
Our grandsires used to eat!
I'm glad I've got three willing boys
To hang around and tease
Their mother for the filling joys
Of apple-pie and cheese!
Your flavored creams and ices
And your dainty angel-food
Are mighty fine devices
To regale the dainty dude;
Your terrapin and oysters,
With wine to wash 'em down,
Are just the thing for roisters
When painting of the town;
No flippant, sugared notion
Shall my appetite appease,
Or bate my soul's devotion
To apple-pie and cheese!
The pie my Julia makes me
(God bless her Yankee ways!)
On memory's pinions takes me
To dear Green Mountain days;
And seems like I see Mother
Lean on the window-sill,
A-handin' me and brother
What she knows 'll keep us still;
And these feelings are so grateful,
Says I, "Julia, if you please,
I'll take another plateful
Of that apple-pie and cheese!"
And cheese! No alien it, sir,
That's brought across the sea,--
No Dutch antique, nor Switzer,
Nor glutinous de Brie;
There's nothing I abhor so
As mawmets of this ilk--
Give me the harmless morceau
That's made of true-blue milk!
No matter what conditions
Dyspeptic come to feaze,
The best of all physicians
Is apple-pie and cheese!
Though ribalds may decry 'em,
For these twin boons we stand,
Partaking thrice per diem
Of their fulness out of hand;
No enervating fashion
Shall cheat us of our right
To gratify our passion
With a mouthful at a bite!
We'll cut it square or bias,
Or any way we please,
And faith shall justify us
When we carve our pie and cheese!
De gustibus, 'tis stated,
Non disputandum est.
Which meaneth, when translated,
That all is for the best.
So let the foolish choose 'em
The vapid sweets of sin,
I will not disabuse 'em
Of the heresy they're in;
But I, when I undress me
Each night, upon my knees
Will ask the Lord to bless me
With apple-pie and cheese!
edit: of course, as
shamanix pointed out (i think. i can't remember whether i brought it up first or he did), you also have:Jim: Uh, what exactly does third base feel like?
Oz: Like warm apple pie.
Jim: Yeah?
Oz: Yeah.
Jim: Apple pie, huh?
Oz: Uh huh.
Jim: McDonald's or homemade?
