# Pork 'n' Apples **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 29, 2006, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-n-apples/350475 "2006-03-29T23:01:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-n-apples/350475/21 "2006-03-30T19:55:21Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > Pork chops are properly served with turnip greens and biscuits, not apple sauce! > > Seriously, it seems to be a northern thing, or at least a non-southern thing. I don’t think I ever saw apples in any form served with pork (whether pork chops, fresh pork, or cured ham) when I was growing up the south. I’ve lived in the south for 55 years. When I was growning up, we had baked apples with pork chops at our table on more occasions than I can count. Plus, no less an authority than [Scott Peacock](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375400354/sr=8-1/qid=1143748209/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-5924471-8761422?%5Fencoding=UTF8) has an amazing recipe in his cookbook for roasted pork loin with [scuppernongs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuppernong). You can’t get more southern than cooking with scuppernongs! ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-n-apples/350475/22 "2006-03-30T20:12:38Z")
> [@Happy Lendervedder](#): > > Peter Brady: Porkchops and Applesauce? > > Carol Brady: What’s wrong with your lip? No, no you gotta say it right: Porkchopsh and appleshaush… Ain’t that shwell… ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-n-apples/350475/23 "2006-03-30T20:13:32Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > Another way (probably an English idea since in requires deep frying. ) Tsssk. That’s the _Scottish_ vice. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Godfrey\_Daniels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Godfrey\_Daniels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Godfrey_Daniels)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-n-apples/350475/24 "2006-03-30T20:20:46Z")
I always thought it had something to do with pigs being slaughtered in the fall, when apples happened to be plentiful. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-n-apples/350475/25 "2006-03-30T20:55:07Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > Tsssk. That’s the _Scottish_ vice. 😛 Fish n’ Chips is more English than Scottish though. Not that it aint a cross boarders vice. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-n-apples/350475/26 "2006-03-30T21:23:40Z")
Not fish& chips, but the ancient warcry of “Deepfry, deepfry, don’t care what it is, just deepfry” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-n-apples/350475/27 "2006-03-30T21:34:42Z")
Pork goes well with lots of fruits. My most favorite recently is red currant jam. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-n-apples/350475/28 "2006-03-30T23:07:03Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > My most favorite recently is red currant jam. So that would be your ‘currant’ favourite? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-n-apples/350475/29 "2006-03-30T23:19:30Z")
> [@Godfrey Daniels](#): > > I always thought it had something to do with pigs being slaughtered in the fall, when apples happened to be plentiful. This is not a bad thought, but every pig slaughter I’ve been to has always been in the winter, because the cold temperatures are necessary to keep the pork from spoiling. ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-n-apples/350475/30 "2006-03-31T01:04:16Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > This is not a bad thought, but every pig slaughter I’ve been to has always been in the winter, because the cold temperatures are necessary to keep the pork from spoiling. Pork, apples, onions, rasins. These are some of the very few things that will actually keep over winter so they seem to be logical choices. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-n-apples/350475.md?page=1)