Apple pie with cheddar cheese

Nope - and I'm from Wisconsin, the cheese capital of the world! I like my apple pie warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Never had it that way!

there’s an old saying, “a pie without cheese is like a hug without a squeeze.”

I think it’s a northeastern thing

R1, a la mode is the most popular way out west here as well.

I've heard about that, but never tried it. To be honest, I've never been a fan of apple pie. I've actually put it on my (non-existent) bucket list as something to try.

It looks vile!

I've had it with cheese lots of times. A good quality sharp cheddar is required. No mass produced cheapo cheese.

Never had it like this but it does seem like a good combo.

I liked a good sharp better baked into the crust. I think it's nauseating to put a slice on it, especially when it looks like the slice in OP's photo is Kraft American cheese (ewwwwww...).

Honestly, the first time I ever saw it done was as a kid watching Golden Girls and Dorothy was putting cheese on the apple pie for the homeless people. And I thought "Is that Kraft Singles? Ewww." I've never known apple pie with anything but a scoop of vanilla.

What an odd combo.

I love it that way. You shouldn't be using American style cheese though you want a nice farm style Cheddar. It also helps if the pie is not too sweet and uses nice tart or tangy apples, and is warmed just slightly.

Raised on a farm in southern Saskatchewan it was always apple pie with cheddar.

Real cheddar,not Kraft plastic singles.

Ancestors were all Scots immigrating to Ontario starting 1780.

No refrigeration so it was cheese and not ice cream.

I often eat apple slices with cheese for a snack. This doesn't seem much different.

R1 and r4 are fraus who should be shot on sight.

Pie with ice cream? You needed to state this?

FUCK YOU!

I sometimes make a cheddar cheese pie crust when making an apple pie. It's wonderful.

I've never tried apple pie with cheddar cheese but I tend to like that savory/sweet combination.

Many years ago Lord & Taylor had a counter-only restaurant on the tenth floor called The Soup Bar where they served apple pie with a slice of cheddar cheese on top. Having been raised in California I had never seen such a thing. After one bite (well, maybe two just to be sure) I surreptitiously scraped the cheese off and ate the pie. Then, because I was so intimidated by the tough-gal waitress, I ate the slice of cheese by itself.

Heard of it, never had it, would like to try it.

I love it. I never eat hot apple pie without a slice of cheddar on top.

We find this quintessentially American and rather vulgar.

The french don't consider cheddar cheese to be cheese.

I don't have cheddar, would gorgonzola do?

R21 They don't know everything and that fucking Brie shit is the most overrated cheese in the world.

R22, I have never tried it with gorgonzola, although I've had gorgonzola with a pear tart before.

[quote] The french don't consider cheddar cheese to be cheese.

Never heard about that. If it’s true, the French must be jealous. Cheddar cheese was started in England.

We used a piquant Swiss cheese in our apple pies. It is delicious! I have had it with a sharp cheddar, but prefer the Swiss cheese in my apple pie.

I’ve tried cheese on apple pie. Very delicious. It’s just fruit and cheese. I also put fruit jam or jelly on my grilled cheese sandwich.

My dad would only eat apple pie with cheese and watermelon, rinds and all, with salt.

Apple pie/w cheddar is a very high-end dessert.

R6, try it! You might like it. I often add grated, cold cheddar into the pie crust and people wonder why it tastes so good.

It's very much a New England thing. I grew up there, and my parents always put a slice of cheddar cheese on servings of apple pie.

We like it with spray American cheese straight from the can.

Interesting article about the history of apple pie with cheddar cheese.

Ew, and I say that as a Northeast person.

R34, when I first saw my dad doing it, I thought the same thing...

I love it! It compliments and cuts through the sweetness of the apples. My favorite snack is just cheddar and apples.

R34 it's not a Northeastern thing or any region thing. It's a generational thing. Many family members from the South and West are it this way. I'm talking those born in the 1920s thru 1950s.

This sounds like a quaint and peculiar Americanism.

R38 yes, most definitely. By the by, my favorite tea time snack is a plate of apples, cheese and peanut butter. Sometimes, if I'm feeling naughty I will substitute chardonnay or rosé for the actual tea.

Jesus Christ.

[quote] It compliments and cuts through the sweetness of the apples.

"My, you are certainly are delicious today!"

I'll have to give it a try,

YES! And with a steaming cup of black coffee....my favorite farm breakfast. The cheddar better be white and sharp, like it should be. They only make it yellow for Yorkers.

R43, I'll have to try it with sharp white cheddar. I've only ever had it with a slice of yellow.

Or you could push the plate away and get on the treadmill, you fat whore/r44

[quote]Does anybody else like their slice of apple pie like this? Learned to eat it this way from my dad

Does you have an extra chromosome like your dad?

R45, lol. A slice of apple pie is only a once in awhile indulgence for me these days.

My grandmother always served cheese with apple pie. But she put the slice of cheese next to the pie, not on top of it.

I have never had it like this but have seen it on menus.

It's a southern or maybe hillbilly thing. My dad liked cheese on his pie well enough but he preferred buttermilk poured over his apple pie. And he couldn't stand store bought cheddar, but grocery store cheese wasn't very good back when he was still around. He said homemade cheese from a farm tasted the best.

I never had it but in retrospect it sounds a lot like a cheese and fruit dessert plate, which I love.

'Farm fresh' cheddar, people!! Yeah, my idiot stepmother used to put cheese on her pie. Dumb. And yes, I grew up in Wisconsin and love cheese.

Some people with eat anything

I've never understood why anyone would ruin a perfectly good piece of apple pie by putting fucking cheddar cheese on it.

If you're going to put anything on a slice of apple pie, it should be a scoop of vanilla ice-cream. Period.

I like whipped cream better than this "scoop of vanilla ice cream" y'all're so fond of.

It has to be a New England or Northeast thing. As a kid I remember it in the dining cars on the (pre-Amtrak) trains to New York and in restaurants.

Cheese and fruits is a great combination.

This was the only way that my grandfather ate any fruit pie (blueberry, blackberry, strawberry, etc.) and he was very Southern (Georgia). I tried it as a kid and didn't care for it at all - but I wonder if I would think differently as an adult. The only issue now is that I hate fruit pies as a rule.

[quote]I often add grated, cold cheddar into the pie crust and people wonder why it tastes so good.

This is the way.

[quote]Some people with eat anything

Pretty much.

Love it that way. With sharp, sharp cheddar.

I can understand it. apple with cheddar is a thing I've been exposed to in the past. What most people don't understand about food, and deserts in particular salt is necessary. And the contrast between cheddar and apple pie is delicious.

[quote]The only issue now is that I hate fruit pies as a rule.

Then I'm guessing that adding a slice of cheese is not going to make you like fruit pies any more.

It seems like a natural fit if you're from a part of the country or world that has a lot of apple orchards and is a dairy state. New York fits that profile. We always had cheddar cheese with apple pie and it's as natural a combination as any fruit with any cheese and bread. Pear and brie on a cracker? Not much difference. I don't see it too much in my part of the world now, but I did love that flavor combination.

[quote]What most people don't understand about food, and deserts in particular salt is necessary.

Oh, dear.

r64, at least he didn't say "pudings."

My favorite way to have each of my morning pies is with a block of Tillamook extra sharp cheddar!

Nothing gross or odd about it. It was common in the fifties. Even Laura Petrie opted for cheese because Rob bought licorice ice cream by mistake.

I also eat cheese and jam sandwiches but the OP's photo looks gross. I would try it if the cheese were baked into the crust.

I would also try it if the cheese were grated and part of the crust. Who wants a dry, crumbly, mealy, slice of cheddar cheese on their pie? It ruins the whole effect of the moist apples and the flaky pastry.

It's a THING in many cultures. I'm Scandinavian, grew up in a small northern town in the Midwest and it was served that way if we wanted it. Grandma used to put warm half and half over sliced apple pie too, besides a la mode.

I don't think it's strange. To go off topic, what I do find strange is saltine crackers dipped in coffee as a snack. We were started on coffee from the time we could eat, and it was a treat to sit down and dip the saltine crackers in our coffee. I gag thinking about it now, but my older relatives still do that.

R70 Great Depression hangover snack. Saltines were cheap.

My mother loved sardines. Said they were a treat in the 1930's.

R71

Yeah, my dad loved sardines too, and calf brains!

Ah, the good old days...

I tried it once and it seems like a good fit for the current fad for sweetness and saltiness together. Ice cream wouldn't have been around much before the spread of modern refrigeration/freezer technology. My guess is that a restaurant must have started the practice of putting ice cream on pie because they would have had freezers before most ordinary homes did.

F17 yes the notoriously hard and dangerous waitresses at Lord & Taylor's Soup Bar - they would cut a homo for not cleaning a plate. But the ex-con floozies at Charleston Garden were worse.

I always thought this looked gross, until I tried with the some sharp Vermont or NY cheddar! Delish!

Gross. I'm hung over and this did it for me.

I like cheddar on apple pie every now and then. Delicious.

Frankly I like both cheddar and vanilla ice cream with my warm apple pie. The two go together well.

Just talking about it is making my mouth water.

Cheddar cheese with chutney makes a good sandwich -- chutney is like a piquant apple pie.

Lots of things from the 50s were gross and odd. They put fucking tunafish in lime jello for chrissakes.

If you put cheese on apple pie, you're ruining perfectly good apple pie.

I enjoy ice cream with pie as much as the next person, but I love cheddar on apple pie. I REALLY like it grated into the crust mixture.

[quote] If you put cheese on apple pie, you're ruining perfectly good apple pie.

But other people [italic]prefer[italic] it that way.

Why is that so hard for you to understand? Do you really think they've never had apple pie without cheese, and so they just don't know what they're missing?

It doesn’t appeal. I’d prefer a fresh apple with cheese.

[quote] Cheddar cheese with chutney makes a good sandwich -- chutney is like a piquant apple pie.

R78 , try crackers with cream cheese and chutney. Very nice as an emergency snack.

I melt cheddar, dip in a slice of apple pie, roll it in corn flake then deep fry. Serve with vanilla ice cream and hot fudge.

No wonder about 50% of the American people are obese! OMG!!!!

R78, sounds interesting.

[quote]I melt cheddar, dip in a slice of apple pie, roll it in corn flake then deep fry. Serve with vanilla ice cream and hot fudge.

Are you a food vendor at state fairs?

In Brazil they eat dulce de leche (doce de leite) with a slice of cheese.

Cheese is the gift that keeps on giving!

[quote]Does you have an extra chromosome like your dad?

Well? Does you?

My grandfather would only eat apple pie with the cheese under the plate and molasses in shotglass.

Most people like cheesecake, so I wouldn't think cheese on a dessert would be that strange... nevertheless, apple pie + cheddar is a trend that never caught on in LA at least.

r91, cream cheese is not the same as cheddar cheese.

Do you cut the cheese when you eat apple pie, OP?

No, R93, you do that AFTER you eat the apple pie.

R92, cheddar cheese in a dessert is much better than cream cheese.

Speaking of cheesecake, we got a Cheesecake Factory cheesecake for the holidays, and those things were 54% sugar, literally. You could hardly taste the cheese in them.

I prefer something like Junior's where you can taste the cheese and it's not overly sweet. That makes me think I'd probably like cheddar at least in the crust of an apple pie, something savory to cut the sweetness. I'm going to try it before it gets too hot to bake.

[quote]Cheesecake Factory

VILE!

First time I saw this was in Taxi Driver. Travis is eating with Cybill Shepard, has has apple pie with cheese on top. Totally insane. I asked my Mom about it and she said it was a NY thing, and 50's diner kinda thing. Never tried it, but I like good vanilla ice cream on top.

[quote]nevertheless, apple pie + cheddar is a trend that never caught on in LA at least.

First time I ever had apple pie with cheddar cheese on top was at Johnny Rockets on Melrose in LA.

I've never heard of such a thing. I find it a bit odd, but I'm an openminded kind of girl. I'll try anything once.

A lot of things from those older generations are gross, mostly the European shit like pickled eggs, Limburger cheese sandwiches, liverwurst, buttermilk, etc. They’re all fart and halitosis-inducing but back then people didn’t care, they needed the protein to work hard and survive.

or something.

I grew up with this and didn’t know it was served any other way until I got older. Just like I didn’t know that Parmesan cheese was a real thing, and not a product that came from a green, shiny can.

I was in high school when I found out Parmesan cheese didn't come in a green metallic cardboard can. My friend's sister's boyfriend was about to go to Vietnam, so we made him a going away dinner. I made the meatballs and my friend's sister introduced me to real Parmesan (though I don't think it was Parmigiano-Reggiano. That came later still). I got to grate some to put in my meatballs.

I would happily and heartily enjoy that really beautiful slice of apple pie, but I would have to scrape off the cheese first.

I hope I'm not typing Ungrateful.

R101, what is your issue with these foods? I love pickled eggs and make them regularly. Liverwurst is great, as is buttermilk (I use it more for cooking) . No GI problems or halitosis, either.

My family still enjoys apple pie with cheese, usually cheddar or Gouda. I'm another who prefers just the apples plus cheese.

My dad was Danish and he was a fan of pickled herring and cooked red cabbage. Sometimes our house smelled pretty pungent.

If I baked a homemade apple pie for a date, and he put fucking cheddar cheese on it, I would break up with him then and there.

I'm sure your date would be devastated by that break-up, R107.

R107, do you typically bake pies for your dates? Can I give you my number?

[quote]do you typically bake pies for your dates? Can I give you my number?

You might want to be careful. r107 could be the Widow Lovett.