Lucretia Borgia wrote:
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> On Tue, 25 May 2004 17:00:39 -0600, Arri London >
> wrote:
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> >
> >
> >Charles Gifford wrote:
> >>
> >> "Arri London" > wrote in message
> >> ...
> >> >
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >> >
> >> > 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.
>
> Wilds of Somerset??? Why Coates comes up from Somerset, where the
> coider apples grow.
>

Had to live there for nearly a year because of work. I'm not a rural
person....However, there were certainly plenty of windfall apples to be
had on my cycle trips around. They made good applesauce, with sugar in
it to balance the sourness.
I was treated to some homemade scrumpy by a pub landlord. It was black
and opaque.
He proudly said 'bet you don't get that in London.' No, indeed. It would
be banned by most councils as a toxic substance LOL! Very interesting
flavour though.