Who eats cheese with apple pie?

[MrSquishy]

I've always wondered if it's a geographical thing. I always eat cheese (usually a nice sharp cheddar, maybe 3 years old) with apple pie. In fact, I'll eat cheese with pretty much any kind of fruit pie. However my wife, and most other people I've eaten pie with, have never heard of this and find it unusual (to say the least). I'm sure I picked it up from my mom, who is from Ontario, so I've wondered if maybe it is an east/west dichotomy (in Canada, anyway).

Do you eat cheese with apple/fruit/other pie? And if so, where are you from?

ETA: Do you eat it on the side, or melt it on the pie? I do the former and find the latter distasteful, but I've seen it done.

[as_u_wish]

When I lived in New England this was common. I never saw it in California nor in the mid-west where I live now. I always understood it as a "Yankee" thing. Using the term "Yankee" in its most restrictive sense.

[A.R. Cane]

I do it ocassionally, other times I like to put a hot piece of fruit pie into a bowl and pour a bit of milk over it, then crumble and enjoy.

[Flutterby]

It depends.

I like either cheese or ice cream, whichever I'm in the mood for (or if I bring a slice to work, it's automatically cheese because ice cream doesn't hold up so well until lunch. :p )

I'm in Alberta, and my Grandma does this. She was born and raised here. My Mom does this also, and she's from Nova Scotia originally.

[NajaNivea]

I don't like apple pie all that much, but will commit atrocities for a good slice of homemade blueberry pie, which I will side with a slice of extremely sharp cheddar. NajaHusband finds this perplexing and had never heard of it before he saw me do it. I'm from the West coast, he's from the East coast. I don't know that I'd ever seen anyone do it, but was a well-read kid and I think I picked the idea up in a book somewhere.

[Catcher Smits]

There's an old joke runs like this:

What is a Yankee?
In the world, a Yankee is a US citizen
In the US, a Yankee is someone from the north
In the north, a Yankee is someone from New England
In New England, a Yankee is someone from Vermont
In Vermont, a Yankee is someone who eats pie for breakfast

[as_u_wish]

Thanks, Catcher! I was trying to remember the sequence.

[Monstera deliciosa]

I don't personally, but people in my family do (or did), particularly my maternal grandparents. We lived in New York, but they were from Virginia, and quite Southern, culturally. So I doubt that is strictly a Yankee thing.

[Telemark]

In the north, a Yankee is someone from New England
In New England, a Yankee is someone from Vermont
In Vermont, a Yankee is someone who eats pie for breakfast
Maine, not Vermont. :)

[silenus]

Whenever I can, I have a sharp cheddar with apple pie. It's served that way in Oak Glen (the local apple orchard area, all of 15 minutes from here.) Melted is gross. On the side is marvelous.

[Yllaria]

California - no cheese. Ice cream or whipped cream are possible, though.

Catcher, thanks for the list.

[psycat90]

Yes. A piece of cheddar with warm apple pie is one of my favorite desserts ever.

From New Jersey. (Where I used to bake hundreds and hundreds of apple pies at a local bakery/gourmet shop using a recipe I helped perfect.)

[C3]

My mom had an old Better Homes & Gardens cookbook when I was a kid (you know, the red & white check cover). In the Pie section, there was a picture of an apple pie with cheddar cheese slices on top of it. That used to fascinate me and I'd look at it and look at it. I've still never tried apple pie with cheese and I still can't quite imagine what that would taste like.

(I'm an eighth generation Marylander.)

[Savannah]

I do! I do! I've still never tried apple pie with cheese and I still can't quite imagine what that would taste like. It tastes delicious! It must be cheddar, though, and it must be my mother's homemade apple pie. From scratch, baby, from the pastry to the apples we helped peel. (My mother has passed away, so the world has lost one of its wonders--she baked a damned good pie.)

Apple pie without cheese
Is like a kiss without a squeeze. :)

--42, Canadian, from British Columbia

[freckafree]

My mom had an old Better Homes & Gardens cookbook when I was a kid (you know, the red & white check cover). In the Pie section, there was a picture of an apple pie with cheddar cheese slices on top of it.

Gaaah! I got that cookbook as a wedding gift! Curse you, C3, for making me feel old. Oh, wait. I am old.

My dad (born in 1906) loved apple pie with a slice of sharp cheddar melted on top. He was born in Illinois, spent part of his childhood in Oklahoma, and came to WV as a teenager, where he lived out the rest of his life.

I rarely do apple pie and cheddar, but when I do....daaayyyyummm! It's good!

[Johnny L.A.]

Apple pie without cheese
Is like a kiss without a squeeze. :)
I was going to say that!

I eat apples with cheese, but not apple pie. I'm a native Californian, and never saw anyone eat cheese with apple pie.

[Frank]

Moved from IMHO to CS.

[eveanyn]

I'm from southwestern Ontario and love old cheddar with apple pie. Melting the cheese seems wrong to me somehow, I've never seen it done. And the cheese is good if it's a nicely aged old white or orange cheddar. Nippy cheese is too far removed from the sweet of the apples for me.

Hmm. I'm looking forward to going to the farmers market in the morning!

[Beware of Doug]

My sainted step-great-grandmother, who grew up in sod-hut era Nebraska and who could reputedly cook anything not still squirming, was a loyal, nay fanatical, devotee of cheddared apple pie.

[DanBlather]

We used to east it that way when I grew up in Boston. My grandfather was from Nova Scotia.

[Tamex]

My husband (originally from Wisconsin) says:

Apple pie without the cheese is like a kiss without the squeeze!

ETA: Sorry...didn't notice this poem had already been posted.

[Frylock]

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[bbs2k]

There's an old joke runs like this:

What is a Yankee? You forgot, in Boston...

[Derleth]

I love apple pie with a sharp cheddar cheese melted on. I got my taste for it from my mom and her mom, both of whom are from Montana. So Northern, but not New England.

[DrDeth]

Apple pie with cheese? Not so much for me, anyway. But Hard Apple Cider and a nice sharp cheddar? Ahhh, perfection.

[Argent Towers]

Blech! I could never eat cheese combined with anything sweet and sugary.

When Bruce Willis's wife in Pulp Fiction says that she's going to order "a piece of blueberry pie with a thin slice of melted cheese on top" I always want to puke every time I see that scene.

[cochrane]

Originally from Western Pennsylvania. Keep that frickin' cheese away from my pie, thank you. I never knew anybody who ate cheese with pie, either. I'll take ice cream and whipped topping on my pie. Keep the cheese for in sandwiches and on top of crackers.

[samclem]

Apple pie without cheese
Is like a kiss without a squeeze. :)

--42, Canadian, from British Columbia That same poem can be found in newspapers as early as the 1880's. Most references to apple pie with cheese center around New England situations and go back, in the US, to the earlier 1800's.

I wonder if if was imported from England?

[don't ask]

My mother, who is from Yorkshire, always used to serve a slice of cheese with fruit cake. When I did the same thing later in life, I found that it is not common in Australia.

[Annie-Xmas]

Old New Englander here. I'm not a pie or cheese eating person, but I do loves me some apple pie with cheddar.

[Sapo]

Extra sharp cheddar with sour apple pie. Bring it on. (I got this living in VT, of course)

[Lucky 13]

I've never tried fruit pie with cheese, but somehow, fruit and cheese just go together. My boss (Guatemalan, married to a Chilean), once brought some mozarella cheese and sliced jellied quince to work as a snack for us. She says it's a popular snack in South America. Of 8 people, I was the only one besides her willing to eat the cheese and fruit together, and it was delicious. Of course, I had a stomachache afterward on account of the cheese, but it was worth it.

[Spoons]

I spent many years in Toronto and one or two other places in southern Ontario. Apple pie must be accompanied by pieces of old cheddar cheese. Mmm!

[Patty O'Furniture]

Does anybody remember Roy Rogers Restaurant? They used to serve a dessert cup called apple cheese crisp. It was basically apple brown betty with some cheese mixed in.

The first time I had it, I immediately liked it without recognizing the cheese (although I could tell there was something unexpected in it). If I had known what was in it before trying it, I might have turned my nose up and never experienced its crumbly cheesy sweet and sour goodness.

Ah, just found this online. Might have to give it a try:

Apple cheese crisp, Roy Rogers style. (http://www.astray.com/recipes/?show=Apple%20cheese%20crisp,%20%22roy%20rogers%22%20style)

[Siam Sam]

I often saw it served with cheese while growing up in Texas.

[Walloon]

When I lived in New England this was common. I never saw it in California nor in the mid-west where I live now. I always understood it as a "Yankee" thing. Using the term "Yankee" in its most restrictive sense.You must be a newcomer to the Badger State. When I was growing up in Wisconsin, restaurants commonly offered a choice of a slice of sharp cheddar or ice cream on apple pie.

[Bobotheoptimist]

The first time I was offered cheese on my apple pie, I thought the person was kidding and laughed at them.
Now that I know people actually do this, a little part of me dies every time I hear of it.

Put me down as a Colorado "no".

[Walloon]

Note to those unfamiliar with sharp cheddar on apple pie: the cheese is never, never melted.

[Walloon]

Blech! I could never eat cheese combined with anything sweet and sugary.Ever had cheesecake?

[WotNot]

I'm a little disappointed at the repeated insistence on cheddar here. Although a good mature cheddar's very nice, for me the best cheeses to eat with apple pie would be crumbly ones like Lancashire, Wensleydale or Caerphilly.

[Patty O'Furniture]

I'm a little disappointed at the repeated insistence on cheddar here. Although a good mature cheddar's very nice, for me the best cheeses to eat with apple pie would be crumbly ones like Lancashire, Wensleydale or Caerphilly.

I only recognize one out of those three and that's only because of the Monty Python sketch. Then again, I used to eat at Roy Rogers.

[GingerOfTheNorth]

My step-dad loves cheese (extra old sharp Cheddar) with apple pie. His father was English; we are Canadian from Alberta. If you haven't tried it, try it!

[WotNot]

I only recognize one out of those three and that's only because of the Monty Python sketch. Then again, I used to eat at Roy Rogers.
Hmm… all three of them are in there, in fact, but it would be a shame if your only exposure to them was as names in a thirty-year-old skit.

I can only suggest that you curtail your Doping activities, sally forth and infiltrate your nearest place of purveyance to negotiate the vending of some cheesy comestibles.

[Patty O'Furniture]

I guess I only remembered Wensleydale because that sounds like it could be somebody's name. Mr. Wensleydale... see how name-like that sounds?

[Southern Yankee]

My father is originally from the Bronx, and he always likes a slice of cheese melted on his apple pie when available. Cheddar is preferred, but I've seen him use a good ol' Kraft single in a pinch.

I've tried it and didn't mind it, but I prefer a good vanilla ice cream.

[Derleth]

Note to those unfamiliar with sharp cheddar on apple pie: the cheese is never, never melted.Speak for yourself.

[Duke of Rat]

If it's good enough for Travis Bickle, it's good enough for me.

[InternetLegend]

Originally from Western Pennsylvania. Keep that frickin' cheese away from my pie, thank you. I never knew anybody who ate cheese with pie, either. I'll take ice cream and whipped topping on my pie. Keep the cheese for in sandwiches and on top of crackers.Interesting. I learned to love a sharp Cheddar on apple pie from my mom, who's from around Erie. Of course, maybe she learned it from my dad - he grew up all the way over in Lancaster. Oh, and it's never melted, although it does taste best if it's had the chance to come to room temperature.

While I'll often take some vanilla ice cream with fruit pies, I think whipped cream is just too sweet and frothy to stand up to them. I save that for the pumpkin pie.

[Argent Towers]

Ever had cheesecake?

Yeah, and I don't like it.

[Siam Sam]

Don't like cheesecake???!!!??? :eek:

[Missy2U]

Don't like cheesecake???!!!??? :eek:

Neither do I. Can not STAND it.

[Spatial Rift 47]

Ever had cheesecake?Yeah, and I don't like it.
This is strange. The words are all in English, but somehow they refuse to come together to form a sensical sentence. Odd.

[TwoTrouts]

We've had a thread about this sometime back...

Anyway, I not only love warm apple pie with a big slice of cheddar for dessert, I will also have a slice of cold apple pie, slice of cheese, and a couple of poached eggs for breakfast! Yummmmm!

[Leaffan]

Not only have i never eaten cheese with pie, I've never in my life ever seen anyone else eat cheese with pie. Ever.

I've heard of it, but figured it was a really regional U.S. thing. I now see it's not.

[Siam Sam]

Neither do I. Can not STAND it.
Can't stand cheesecake???!!!??? :eek: