I'm afraid I don't see the weirdness---it seems to me that this was a
recipe invented as a way to cope with poverty and/or produce shortage,
kind of the way coffee used to be spiked with chicory when it was scarce
or when the economy was depressed in a region (or when coffee sellers
wanted to gouge customers).
I can understand serving it as an April Fool's joke, but I think you're
finding a political subtext that escapes me....
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Gord Sellar wrote:
> Ha, at a recent party this came up, and our good hostess found the skinny
> on mock apple pie. If you haven't heard of this, well . . .
>
> http://members.home.net/jjschnebel/Cookup6.htm
>
> This is just a deeply weird thing. If apple pie is the "patriotic" food of
> America, ha ha ha, and this was popular during the war, ha ha ha ha, well .
> . . anyway.
>
> I am gonna make one of these and bring it to some party here sometime. Too
> weird not to try. Maybe the night my buddy Jack make sthe buttered pike
> from _The Compleat Angler_. :)
>
> [The heart attack-provoking buttered pike with more butter and then
> additions of some extra butter.]
>
>
>
Marvin Long
Austin, Texas
