r/ShitAmericansSay • u/TeacupUmbrella G'day, eh? 🍁🦘 • 7d ago

Food Americans invented apple pie, and also saved it from being bad British food

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Context: a post about how the earliest apple pie recipe we have from England had no sugar in it (since it's from the 1300s) and so they sweetened it with other fruits and such.

Yep, America invented apple pie like 400 years before America even existed, and also save it from being bad British food.

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u/TheDaemonette 7d ago

It occurs to me that in the same way that Trump is always accusing other people of doing the stuff that he is guilty of, the jingoistic American is incredibly defensive of other people 'stealing American culture' that they themselves stole off Europeans.

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u/Euphoric-Badger-873 6d ago

What fucking american culture? Disney? Sweet mothering Jesus!