I saw this in a collection of quotes from Thomas Edison. Now while it is undeniably true, is there some special explanation behind this quote? Or did ol’ Tom just spout it off at random during his later years?
this is a hideous slur on me and my countrymen.
We eat lots of pie!!
Yes Bakhesh, I was going to say, how much pie is enough pie then?
Are we talking fruit pies or meat pies here?? I certainly hold up my end when it comes to the ‘English eating meat pies’ statistics 
Who ate all the pies?
Yes, but your pies are filled with nasty things like pork and kidneys and shepherds. All things that should not be in pie. Hence, they do not count.
American pies are filled with peaches and apples and strawberries and limes and blueberries and boysenberries and pumpkins and sweet potatoes and pecans and cherries and other delicious fillings. Those are proper pies and the English do not eat enough of it.
Neurotik you ain’t lived until you’ve seen off an innards pie or two. We’re talking CMOT Dibbler standard here. 
Until you’ve tasted a fresh Melton Mowbray Pork Pie, I can honestly say your life is incomplete.
Not that I mind your Lime pie (is it called ‘Key Lime Pie’? Or am I confusing that with something else?). And your pecans are scrummy, I’ll admit …
Nah, key lime pies are the same thing. I just didn’t feel like making the distinction.
I’ve had pork pie while in England (don’t know if it was Melton Mowbray) and it was quite good, it still wasn’t a proper pie.
shudder just thinking about it
Oops, I didn’t mean to suggest that a Key lime is the same thing as a normal, Persian lime. It isn’t. I just meant that’s what I was talking about.
Ah, the no true Scotsman argument raised its head yet again.
You’ll be telling me next that haggis isn’t a pie, and that the Scots aren’t English.
Clearly, given that we invented everything (including pie), TE had been on the bottle.
Shepherd’s pie, (note that that’s a posessive, not a plural) is one of the most perfect foods ever created. Right up there with peanut butter sandwiches.
But whoever invented kidney pie needs to be drawn and quartered.
I disagree.
Scots are most definitely English.
Steak and kidny pie, if you just had kidney pie it would be vile, but you need offal to make a truly good pie.
Seconded!
‘The Maids of Honour’ in Kew…best steak and kidney pie ever made. And to me steak and kidney is the definitive pie. Boysenberries? Ha! I scoff at your lack of savoury filling…
How do you think they make them?
Watch it, you. Any mention of “kidney pie” veers horribly towards UK-food Godwinism, or as I like to call it, Bifar’s Law.
Anyway, we have fruit pies. Nothing like a nice apple and blackberry with cream. Or apple. Or gooseberry. Mmmm.
What is it with Americans and their inability to remember the Steak and part of Steak and Kidney Pie?!