Sarah Marshall

They also make the same sort of pie out of apples or finely ground meat with syrup added.

And that is really the most superb.

By the early 20th century, the dessert suffered some from the emergence of the nutritional science field.

It turns out that eating pie three times a day might not be the surest path toward long term health.

But Americans weren't able to kick their addiction so easily.

According to food writer Matt Siegel, a writer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel weighed in on the debate over the national flower by arguing that Americans shouldn't be wasting time discussing plants when pie could easily serve as a national emblem.

Wow.

And also very utilitarian food and something that historically you could eat at any time of day, which I think is empowering.

Yes.

I think if your pie window is only after dinner, that really decreases the amount of pie that you can eat and thereby the amount of pies that you can make.

Yeah.

And I think the basic mechanics of a pie, we're in kind of sandwich territory here.

There's something really universal about it.

But yeah, the idea of it being, I think, based on this argument, too, or this presentation of history, maybe a typically American food, because it's so versatile, it can be adapted differently.

You can put any ingredient in there or you can put nothing in there.

You have the famous water pie where you pour in water and then add in your ingredients, which is like flour and some sugar and mix it together.

And you bake it and it makes a custard.

And yet it seems like you just baked water in a crust.

Right.

You know, these like magic trick desserts that seem to have nothing in them.