Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-12-23
AS REGARDS PIE.

that IL was the Hon. Cafl ScnurZ, In |
his lecture on education. Then it was
taken up by the venerable Evening
Post, and soon an echo of IL rebounds
from amid the smoke and smell of
porcine oflall at Cincinnati in the mild
pages of the Gazette. And from thence
il seems to have become a pervading
idea all over the country. We are al
ludiDg to the philippe against pie.
Now, we submit it To the candid
judgment of any native born A american
citizen: Is it fair? II one would
listen believingly to the argument of
these gentlemen, the gastronomic des
stroyer of pie is an individual who
would break into minute fragments
each separate and distinct command
ment in the decalogue, commit all the
crimes known to ancient or modern
villiany, unloosen without the slight
est hesitation and on the most trivial
pretexts the sacred band that holds
family aud society together, and, even
in some extreme cases, reduces man
so low as towel, there is no telling
TO what depths he may sink.
Again we will appeal to the daily
experience Of thousands of loyal, law
abiding citizens, good husbands and
wives, loving brothers and sisters, and
/ obedient children, does all this moral
/ turpitude and hideousness lie enclosed
between the crusts of our national
desert, as the proverbial worm in the
still?
/ Ii is not our intention to pronounce
a eulogium upon pie. it needs none !;
it can, and does speak for itself
What we may have to say is but in
simple justice to that which has
brought satisfaction to the appetite,
/ pleasure to the taste and comfort to
the heart of many thousands of Amer
lean citizens from their earliest infau-
cy.
What precious memoyies linger
around the scolloped edges IF the
patty pan " pie! Who is so far en-
crossed in the labors aud anxities of
maturer life as to forget the glowing
and bounding pleasure with which he
received wedge Of pie from the
hands Of "a fond mother, with the in
junction to run into the yard and eat
it and not drop it upon the clean floor
or carpet? Lives there man with
soul so dead" as to have lost the mem
DRY of the Saturday evening pie bak-
ing, and of how he fingered around
the kitchen with his unwelcome pres
ence until subsidized 10y the cook with
a piece of pie to make himself OFF,"
One Of the principal objections to
pie seems TO lie in the fact that it is
peculiar in its extent of consumption
to the American people. Other ma.
tons, it is true, eat pie, but none
have elevated it to the dignity of q
national desert. The Euglishman
glories in his round of roast beef and
his plum pudding; the phlegmatic
German deglutates his fermented cab
bage calling it sour krout), guzzles his
beer and is happy the finicky
Frenchman dimes sumptuously of tht
! leg of frog, makes his desert of some
refuse of the kitchen, gievs it Ions
name, and acquires the reputation 0
being authority on all points apper
: tanning to culinary matters; il
, Is the American alone who marks hi
> nationality by eating the wicked, in
digestible pie.
Now we affirm, that if from 40 9th
y er circumstance, the fact of its bein
+ exclusively American should endea
: the pie to the hearts of all patrioti
= citizens, and that we should indig
? nautly repel any disparaging com
II ments regarding its merits or demel
y its as an article of food.
p The chief charge is not bruugL
a against the pie as pie, but again.
). its indigestibility as pie. If one wei
r to listen TO the walls Of Mr.. Shurz an
the EUcHing Post, it is certain that
n more indigestible combination WI
} never thrown together than IA,
"NICh VIC luu III our hDlV ullONe lh'
J. 1t would, il seems to u, have souude
Il much more flir-minded if this stat,
Y ment had been somewhat qualihe,
a. There are pies, and pies, There is ID
is big pot-pie in which our fore fathel
= found delight, and chicken pic an
u bird pies, aud pork pies, and the "wei
e an BANNER made immortal b
!" Dickens; there are apple-pies an
le peach-pies and all manner OF fruit pie
p and last, by no means least in impol
lance, there is the dried apple-pie, thi
+ universal resident of the America
p cheap boarding house. Would thes
y gentlemen do away with this las
e named institution, which has becom
IS one OF the land marks in our social an
/ political history? # they do, let ther
Ie abolish the dried apple-pie, for bot
,. will go down together. Now Of a
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