Charles Gifford wrote:
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> "Arri London" > wrote in message
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> > You prefer English apple pie to Irish?? Horrors!
>
> On the whole, yes. My statement does not mean the "individual" best pies.
> But as a nation, yes. The best apple pie I've ever eaten was at the
> Shelbourne dining room in Dublin (with cream).

Aha! LOL! I know what you mean.

2nd (with ice cream), at a
> small restaurant in Three Rivers, California which is long gone as is the
> pie's creator and his recipe.


Never been to Three Rivers.

>3rd, a small restaurant in Braintree (with
> Cheddar) where I found hospitality on a Sunday afternoon when I became
> famished while driving from London to Cambridge.

Surprised anything other than a pub was open in Braintree.
Suburban/rural Essex can be very quiet on Sundays.

> I was fed despite the facts
> that I was neither a local nor did I make reservations for Sunday dinner.

That's typical I think. Never had any probs getting food on Sundays in
most places in the UK...even in the wilds of Somerset.
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> > The best apple pie I've had has always been in Ireland. Had a really
> > memorable slab (and slab it was) of it as pudding after a hefty meal in
> > Cork. Waitress asked if I wanted cream or ice cream, so I opted for
> > cream. The slab came with cream *and* freshly made real custard, which
> > apparently was the default.
>
> Oh My!! That sounds scrumptious! I want some now!
>
> Charlie

LOL! So do I. The set meal was in a workingman's caff on the river. Bowl
of soup (not a tiny cup either) with bread, big slab of fantastic boiled
bacon with the usual superb Irish potatoes and a pile of excellent
cabbage and then the hectare of apple pie. Tea that would strip paint of
course.

All that for 4.95 (punts), just a few years ago. I hardly felt like
eating again until I got back to London two days later LOL.

For good food the next time you are in Ireland, try Kinsale. Touristy,
but becoming a food haven with great local fish.