On Oct 16, 1:12*pm, "l, not -l" > wrote:
> On 16-Oct-2011, "Storrmmee" > wrote:
>
> > i have read this thread with interest and a bit of horror, i think the one
>
> > reason to make it would be sorta like watching a train wreck, you want to
> > look away but can't, i simply can NOT imagine how this must taste,... most
>
> > things are just more or less interesting to my taste buds but this seems
> > just so ick, Lee
>
> Guess you wouldn't care much for vinegar pie either. *8-)
> Growing up in 1950s rural western-Kentucky I have eaten both and, at the
> time, they were a real treat.
>
> These are foods for people without much money and little access to fresh
> produce. *America once had a large rural population that saw a trip to town
> as a special occasion and the "produce section" was a small plot of land
> "out back of the house" or the root cellar. * You had apples every
> imaginable way (baked, fried, stewed, etc) when they were in season, you
> canned like mad at the end of the season and then tried to make the "canned"
> goods last through the winter. *Most likely, you only had one or two apple
> trees and they weren't necessarily the best apples for making pies; they
> might have been best for eating out of hand or maybe making cider. *They
> made a pie that wasn't anything like you get frozen from Mrs. Smith in
> today's supermarkets.
>
> Oddities, such as mock apple or vinegar pie, are for the dead of winter when
> all the produce from the garden (fresh and canned) is long gone and the
> grocery store is a "general store" in the middle of nowhere. *"Fresh meat"
> is the 'possum or squirrel you shot this morning and store-bought meat is
> vienna sausages, potted meat, deviled ham, balogna or similar. *Oh, and
> seafood is sardines, which come in varieties such as sardines in mustard
> sauce, sardines in tomato sauce or packed in oil.
>
> When you haven't had a slice of pie for a couple of months and you've grown
> tired of biscuits and molasses as your "sweet", a mock apple pie can be
> mighty fine; sure, there's no apple flavor (unless there was still a little
> cider left in the cellar). *In the hands of someone who has made mock apple
> pie every winter for many years, the crackers do a fair job of emulating
> baked apple bits and the cinnamon and sugar flavor is delightful.
> --
>
> Change Cujo to Juno in email address.

Thank you for your perspective on this!