Apple Pie is Rasict. Cancel it, now!

[FindersKeepers]

"...apple pie was born of American colonialism and slave labour...."


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Awww...Pooh Bear is right!

I love Winnie the Pooh.

[countryboy]

Blacks in general are not. Just some radicals. There are more whites caught up in CRT.

Anyway I don't really like apple pie. Pumpkin pie is the one that I would eat if I ate any pie.

Are you crazy? All pie is good.

[Dr. Who]

Actually, it's my favorite pie and no silly willy is going to convince me to stop making it and eating it. LOL

You just can make this leftist-fascist $#@! up. Idiots abound.

It gets more inane by the day.




https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b1862610.html

Domestic apples are not native to N. America - the only apples that are native are the various crab apple species. So, yes colonists brought over apples and apple seeds, along with the recipe for apple pie. They also brought over honey bees because the native bees didn't recognize the non-native apple tree species and wouldn't pollinate them. That said, I don't know what this has to do with slavery. Apple pie was popular because apples are a particularly hardy fruit that can be stored into the winter months in northern climates.

Sugar cane was definitely an industry that relied on slave labor, but that isn't exclusive to the baking of apple pies or any other fruit pie for that matter. Why the apple pie is particularly impugned, I have no idea. You can use honey or maple syrup/sugar to sweeten an apple pie, if you don't have cane sugar. In fact, in New England the colonists learned how to harvest maple syrup from the natives and for a long time resisted purchasing any cane sugar when the British Sugar Act of 1764 imposed high duties on imported sugar. They also kept bees.

Most of the market for cane sugar was Europe and until it was discovered that it could be grown in the Caribbean, it was imported from Asia. Most of America's cane sugar came from Cuba between the 17th and 19th centuries and yes it was a slavery crop. That doesn't mean that no pies, let alone apple pies would have been baked without the availability of cane sugar.

[Chris]

[FindersKeepers]

Domestic apples are not native to N. America - the only apples that are native are the various crab apple species. So, yes colonists brought over apples and apple seeds, along with the recipe for apple pie. They also brought over honey bees because the native bees didn't recognize the non-native apple tree species and wouldn't pollinate them. That said, I don't know what this has to do with slavery. Apple pie was popular because apples are a particularly hardy fruit that can be stored into the winter months in northern climates.

Sugar cane was definitely an industry that relied on slave labor, but that isn't exclusive to the baking of apple pies or any other fruit pie for that matter. Why the apple pie is particularly impugned, I have no idea. You can use honey or maple syrup/sugar to sweeten an apple pie, if you don't have cane sugar. In fact, in New England the colonists learned how to harvest maple syrup from the natives and for a long time resisted purchasing any cane sugar when the British Sugar Act of 1764 imposed high duties on imported sugar. They also kept bees.

Most of the market for cane sugar was Europe and until it was discovered that it could be grown in the Caribbean, it was imported from Asia. Most of America's cane sugar came from Cuba between the 17th and 19th centuries and yes it was a slavery crop. That doesn't mean that no pies, let alone apple pies would have been baked without the availability of cane sugar.

That's very true, in fact, maple and apples are incredibly tasty when pared. Plus, doesn't most of the sugar in the US actually come from sugar beets now?

Apples are great fruit, for longevity as you say, and they're also easily canned.

[Abby08]

I don't get it. Why are some blacks acting like they're still slaves?

They're going backwards, aren't they? They now WANT to be segregated?

They're hurting no one but, themselves.

[DGUtley]

Domestic apples are not native to N. America - the only apples that are native are the various crab apple species. So, yes colonists brought over apples and apple seeds, along with the recipe for apple pie. They also brought over honey bees because the native bees didn't recognize the non-native apple tree species and wouldn't pollinate them. That said, I don't know what this has to do with slavery. Apple pie was popular because apples are a particularly hardy fruit that can be stored into the winter months in northern climates.

Sugar cane was definitely an industry that relied on slave labor, but that isn't exclusive to the baking of apple pies or any other fruit pie for that matter. Why the apple pie is particularly impugned, I have no idea. You can use honey or maple syrup/sugar to sweeten an apple pie, if you don't have cane sugar. In fact, in New England the colonists learned how to harvest maple syrup from the natives and for a long time resisted purchasing any cane sugar when the British Sugar Act of 1764 imposed high duties on imported sugar. They also kept bees.

Most of the market for cane sugar was Europe and until it was discovered that it could be grown in the Caribbean, it was imported from Asia. Most of America's cane sugar came from Cuba between the 17th and 19th centuries and yes it was a slavery crop. That doesn't mean that no pies, let alone apple pies would have been baked without the availability of cane sugar.

So…. Winnie was correct?

[Dr. Who]

That's very true, in fact, maple and apples are incredibly tasty when pared. Plus, doesn't most of the sugar in the US actually come from sugar beets now?

Apples are great fruit, for longevity as you say, and they're also easily canned.

Pity they didn't learn how to extract sugar from sugar beets until the 19th century and it wasn't really commercially viable until the 20th century.

[Dr. Who]

So…. Winnie was correct?

Yes. I don't understand why people feel the need to create such bizarre connections to slavery, unless they are simply trying to promote their own celebrity by doing so. The truth of the evils of slavery needs no such foolish embellishment. A food cannot be racist, only actions and beliefs can be said to be racist. Suggesting that apple pie is racist, simply diminishes and trivializes actual racism.

[DGUtley]

Yes. I don't understand why people feel the need to create such bizarre connections to slavery, unless they are simply trying to promote their own celebrity by doing so. The truth of the evils of slavery needs no such foolish embellishment. A food cannot be racist, only actions and beliefs can be said to be racist. Suggesting that apple pie is racist, simply diminishes and trivializes actual racism.

Unfortunately, when they go to these extremes they lose people