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  • "As American as apple pie" is a common saying in the United States, meaning "typically American".However, the expression (its full form being "As American as motherhood and apple pie" is clearly metaphorical, rather than literally ascribing an American origin to either apple pie or motherhood, since both motherhood and apple pie predate the United States. To some, the saying expresses the feeling that the concept "America" is not just geographical, but is instead - along with motherhood and apple pie - something wholesome. (wikipedia)
  • According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie "Although apple pies have been eaten since long before the discovery of America, "as American as apple pie" is a common saying in the United States, meaning "typically American"[3]. The dish was also commemorated in the phrase "for mom and apple pie" - supposedly the stock answer of American soldiers in WWII, whenever journalists asked why they were going to war[citation needed]. Advertisers exploited the patriotic connection in the 1970s with the TV jingle "baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet". There are claims [1] that the Apple Marketing Board of New York State used such slogans as "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" and "as American as apple pie!", and thus "was able to successfully 'rehabilitate' the apple as a popular comestible" in the early twentieth century when prohibition outlawed the production of cider."
  • I thought it came from "Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet..."

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