Chuck

So we got to talk about pumpkin pie, which was brought to the new world by the colonists on the Mayflower.

But it's interesting because when they got here, Native Americans were like, hey, look at these things we got.

They're called pumpkins.

And one day they will invent spices to put with these that taste nothing like pumpkins, but you will totally associate that with pumpkin.

That's right.

In 1796, it was in the very first American cookbook, in fact, from Amelia Simmons called American Cookery by an American Orphan.

And yeah, that pumpkin pie was in there.

The kind of like the one we know it.

It was kind of a pumpkin pudding.

But that's not super unlike pumpkin pie.

Agreed.

Well, buddy, apples don't come from America.

They're native to Asia.

So they were brought over to the New World by the colonists.

And I think we all know that the perfect apple pie is that Dutch apple pie.

And they're the ones they were the OGs a couple of years, a couple of sorry, a couple of hundred years prior to those apples coming over from Asia.

The Dutch had sort of mastered that apple pie.

Apparently, World War II, there was a catchphrase for the GIs there when they're like, why are you going off to fight this war?

And they would say, well, sir, for mom and apple pie, of course.

And they say, good out there, boy.