When I was a kid growing up in the Midwest, menus used to list the option of apple pie with ice cream, or apple pie with a slice of cheddar cheese melted on top. I think I tried the cheese version once or twice and hated it…but back then, it was really popular.
I don’t think I have seen hot apple pie with cheese on a menu in decades. No great loss, as far as I am concerned, but it got me to wondering if there are any other foods that have fallen out of fashion over the years.
I just had a slice of apple pie tonight with cheddar cheese (actually, a mixture of colby & jack) melted on top. Just because you don’t see something on the menu in restaurants does not necessarily mean it’s gone out of fashion. 
The cheese cuts the sweetness but also complements the apples and I think there are still quite a few folks out there who still enjoy cheddar cheese melted atop a slice of apple pie.
As to other foods that have “gone out of fashion,” many of them are probably victims of cholesterol, imho. 
There’s a lot of tasty dishes that are laden with cholesterol or, worse, salt (for those of us with high blood pressure) that have become “off-limits.” That doesn’t mean we don’t still want to eat them, though! I’d definitely put country ham in this category. And I do have some, from time to time.
Bleh! One thing (and maybe a few others) I could never try is apple pie with cheese on top.
ICK! Some of you Americans eat some weird stuff. I have only just finsihed telling people that the pumpkin pie we hear so much about, has marshmallows on top (yes I know not it all cases) and now I hear about cheese on apple pie! Too strange.
And to think you think steak and kidney pudd is odd…(yes I know another gross generalisation)
Rose extract as a flavoring dropped out when vanilla became popular.
calm kiwi writes:
> I have only just finsihed telling people that the pumpkin pie we
> hear so much about, has marshmallows on top (yes I know not
> it all cases) and now I hear about cheese on apple pie!
It should be emphasized that both of these are rare. I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen either one. I do see whipped cream on pumpkin pie occasionally.
Blackened…anything. Think back about 15 years. EVERYTHING was blackened! What was the deal with that? If I wanted burned food I coulda stayed at home and ruined my meal!
As a kid we would put peanuts in our Pepsi…
Echoing Wendell Wagner here… I’ve lived in three distinctly different regions of the U.S., and I’ve never heard of either of these, so don’t think they’re common. Marshmallows on pumpkin pie… hmmm, not something I’d go out of my way for, per se, but that doesn’t sound too bad. Too sugary, though. Melted cheese on apple pie, though, sounds decidedly gross. I’ve never tried it, to be fair, and am willing to try just about anything once, so I’d give it a shot. But I just can’t imagine those two things taste good together!
And 1kBR Kid, ‘blackened’ does not simply mean ‘burnt’. You cook the fish or meat (usually coated with Cajun spices) on an especially hot cast-iron skillet. The spices and the very hot skillet gives it a very crispy crust, but this isn’t the same as just overcooking something.
Mmm. Cheddar on Apple Pie.
Nice and savory.
“Well-marbled” beef
Candied apples
and their cousin, popcorn balls
Whatever happened to the carbonated kool-aid in pill form? Can’t remember the name - kind of like a (poorly) flavored alka-seltzer, use in quantity by scouting groups.
on the plus side, I see Jiffy-pop survies, and, of course, Spam will always be with us.
I never heard of pumpkin pie with marshmallows on top either. Is it possible you are thinking of sweet potato pie with marshmallows?
Chicken and waffles from “Milderd Pierce.” Other 1930’s books also mention this combination.
There are foods that disappeared when taverns stopped being male-only refuges: pickled eggs, raw onions eaten like apples, all sorts of stinky cheeses. Also, it’s probably been some time since anyone brought home beer from the corner bar in a galvanized bucket greased with butter (that would be like walking into SuperCuts and asking if they had a jar of leeches).
Trout was a more common food in the Midwest before Lake Michigan was overfished.
What SPAM was to the WWII soldier, canned salmon was to the doughboys of WWI. Salmon populations were reduced not by fishing, but by logging that ruined their spawning streams.
All kinds of wild birds were eaten back when there was a lot more open land, and it was legal to shoot nets over bushes full of roosting flocks. We wouldn’t like the tase of these birds, anyway, since we’re accustomed to grain-fed fowl, not bug & grub-fed.
At the turn of the previous century, it was just as common to boil the turkey as roast it.
Speaking of turkeys, I once asked the owner of a local oyster farm if his business increased at Thanksgiving or Christmas due to oyster stuffing, and he said he’s never known anyone to actually prepare it.
One drink that I’d always assumed was old-fashioned is sauerkraut juice. But I read that it tastes foul, has always been veiwed as foul, and has always been drunk only by seniors not out of nostalgia but as a purgative.
My dad would put grape jelly on his scrambled eggs.
He also liked cheddar cheese on his apple pie.
Can’t stand either of them.
Cheese and apple pie? Abominable.
Apple pie’s supposed to be served with vanilla ice cream!
I can sorta see the sense in cheese on apple pie - cheddar and apple do go together extremely well, and apple is often included in a Ploughman’s Lunch (UK).
Julie
I keep meaning to try cheese on apple pie… in my family you either eat it ala mode or with cheddar cheese… I’ve never eaten it myself but it’s not strange…
Extraneous: You’re thinking of FIZZIES, and your description is spot on.
I generally eat apple pie with a good slice of cheddar, though I’ve never had it melted on top. Cheddar goes great with apples (try an apple-cheddar sandwich sometime), so it makes sense to me. I think people often just have an aversion to mixing sweet and savory flavors.
Seriously, you don’t have to melt the cheese, but try eating some cheddar the next time you have a slice o’ apple pie.
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I think you’re thinking of Fizzies, which were indeed nasty! Don’t think they make them any more (thank the gods! LOL)