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

[u/TeacupUmbrella]

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.

[u/marcelsmudda]

I mean, putting local fruit mixed with sugar into a dough casing (you wouldn't eat the coffin of medieval pies) and baking it shouldn't be so complex that it required a genius to do that. So, I guess that all countries with lots of apples would have had a variation of apple pie.