national pride. A newspaper article published in 1902 declared that "No pie-eating people can be permanently vanquished." The dish was also commemorated in the phrase "for Mom and apple pie" - supposedly the stock answer of American soldiers in World War II, whenever journalists asked why they were going to war. Since then, the apple pie has been praised as a lovely dessert and has been used in poetry to be the comparison to something divine. In the years to come, the recipe has been reimagined…