Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-10-11
SOME FACTS ABOUT PIES.

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SOME FACTS ABOUT PIES.
It is Peculiarly an American Institution
Foreigners are Small Pie-Eaters.
"The demand for pie" said New
York city authority on the subject,
increases with the population, but
customs in eating it have somewhat t
changed.
Forty or 80 years ago. for insta nee,
in the Eighth aud Ninth wards OF this
city, populated then almost exclusive.
ly by Americans, you would, I venture
to say, have found pie on the table OF
every family at dinner. Now that
custom by no means so commonly
prevails, but the descendants of those
families are still eating pie; if not at
home, in restaurants.
"Pie is eaten mainly by the native
population. Foreigners eat very little
of it. A German restaurant, for ex-
ample. might not sell three pies day.
The Germans are small pie eaters, and
the same is true Of the English, the
Italians and the French. The Eng.
lish eat plum pudding, the Italians
eat fruit.
"The area of greatest consumption
in the United States is in New Eng.
land and the Middle States; though
pie is eaten extensively all through
the West. Pie is eaten much more
commonly in the North than in the
South. Chicago is a good pie town.
st. Louis, on the other hand, is not so
good u place for pies.
"And then Eastern cities may have
their peculiarities. A New York pie.
baking establishment that started a
pie bakery in Philadelphia in 1876,
the year of the centennial exhibition,
found. strange as it may seem to q
New Englander or a New Yorker ac-
quainted with that delight, that Phil
adelphia ate very few pumpkin pies,
while sweet potato pies were fashion
there, and further that the Quaker
City was not great pie-eating com.
munity for an Eastern city anyway.
But Philadelphia has taken kindly to
green apple and pumpkin pies and it
is now eating more pies in general per
head than ever before.
Pies are made now in greater va
riety than ever, and pie supplies are
now drawn from greater distances
than in old times, being now brought
from California and from the South
ern States, as we'll, as for instance,
from the Bahamas, whence we get
pineapples. The seasons of pies made
OF green fruits have been much pro-
longed and pies are made the year
round of fruit canned or otherwise
preserved. In either case the fruit
used is the best that can be bought.
"The time.honored mince, long a
pie of great and steady sale all through
winter and the other colder months,
has been peculiarly Christmas pie
for some years, and it is more so now
than ever. 1t seems as though almost
everybody that ate pies at all bought
a mince pie at Christmas. One big
concern in Chicago made up into
mince pies last Christmas 10 tons OF
mincemeat. and this same concern
sold ON the day before Christmas from
q little store, perhaps 10 by 20 feet,
which it maintains on its premises for
the convenience Of people in the neigh
borhood, mince pies to the value of
$500 At retail.
Export No, there are no pies ex-
ported; there is no demand, and the
pie couldn't very we'll be exported any
distance, even if it were desired, be-
cause the crust would absorb moisture
and 80 become soggy, which is, OF
course, the very reverse OF desirable
condition"
The time-honored custom, the ring
ing of church bells as call to divine
service. seems likely to fall into dis.
use, after centuries of observance. A
crusade against the same has been in.