Adam Ruins Everything - Why Apple Pie Is Un-American
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 มิ.ย. 2016
- Adam breaks the bad news about the true origin of this patriotic dessert.
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Adam struggling to pick up the piece of pie three times is my aesthetic
I think when people say as American as apple pie they're talking about apple pie as a part of the US's culture and not the origin of apple pies. I live in Ireland and people associate beer and potatoes as being very Irish even though potatoes are originally from south america and beer has a german origin.
u actually consider potatoes irish. isnt that just something we say to piss you off
thunder2.0 No it's actually a very popular side dish or base 😂
Cian Gargan it popular all round the world
Actually, the oldest beer recipes are from ancient Egypt.
Alexis Filigree that is true beer did originate in the middle east but while Egypt was one of the first crafters of beer the origins of beer actually trace back to ancient Mesopotamian & Sumerian civilization if you wish to learn more here is a Wikipedia article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_beer also here is an actual image of a ancient beer receipt from the ancient Sumerian city of Umma en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_beer#/media/File:Alulu_Beer_Receipt.jpg
Apple pie is originally British, but so were the settlers
This is true haha
so then I guess that means nothing in America was American since the settlers were British
Except the natives but the settlers got rid of that problem.
Except the Dutch. and the French.
And the Russian...
And the Spanish...
Well, America IS a melting pot of different cultures.
exactly.. A country that's only a couple centuries old, built from migrants.. It would be ludicrous to expect anything else.. My goodness, even pemmican would be considered 'cultural appropriation by these people. There's really no winning here..
sixmam There are still a lot of different cultures here, though, so if someone with English background can be American, so can apple pie--but I don't care where it's from, I'll still eat it. ;)
Nah, White people always be hating on the other races but me and other non-whites be like "dab on them haters!"
@@famoterlhh4993 It's racist to say that only other races are racist. Although, as a white person I can say that we're much more racist, and sort of founded the whole thing. Also, if you're just dabbing on the haters why are there lots of pushes for more non-white legislation, and other things like that. I agree it should definitely be there, although if you want to just dab on the haters, we can easily erase hundreds of years of progress if you want.
American patriotic dessert.....McDonalds Sundae.
O'er the land of Mcdonalds
and the home of the BBBBBBBBBBBBBBRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEE
I give no fucks........I'll be American and still eat some goddamm apple pie
Who said you can't eat apple pie if you are American...
no one
of course you don't.
of course you don't. typical.
YEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM AMERICAN AND PROUD TO BE!!!!!!! mUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Isn't America technically not American?
Cause we came from Britan.
So technically we are also a British culture. Somewhat.
We all came from Africa, that doesn't mean all cultures are African.
Cole Blackman All Americans are from Europe.All the world from africa.
+MasterOven no clue what your point is.
no we are a mix of English
French dutch african german and italian to name some of the majors
we all came from single cell organisms. is that part fo our culture?
Un-American is taking it a little too far, title people. Not originally American, sure, but un-American implies it contradicts American values.
Tastes good, came from a foreign country, doesn't kill people. Seems pretty un-American to me.
@@TheJrbdog I mean consuming too much of anything can kill you, and someone's last meal before dying of a heart attack from being overweight might have been an apple pie at some point. I suppose I could say Hamburgers are Un-American by that logic.
you know what's American?
French fries.
Nope, Belgian.
know whats American
memes
You just think memes are American because you're trapped in the mostly-English-speaking part of the Internet. There are many huge areas you can't easily get to because they're always at the bottom (or hidden entirely) on web searches.
fried potato has been eaten long before America existed
fortune cookies are american
0:37 He tried so hard....
In other news, French fries aren't from France and Hamburgers aren't made of ham.
Hamburgers are named after the city of Hamburg...
And French fries are frenched
Colossal GamerFTW Nope, as a French myself it's from Belgium.
@@bullseye4170 Belgium
Rachel Waln listen, I was young and naive 😂
Apple pie is common to any country that has apples. It is nothing American or English
But where it originated, Brits just so happened to be the first to come up with apple pie.
ojjamajjasajja Just because there are many versions of apple pie doesn’t take away from the fact that it was originally an English dish.
Isn't the apple pie originally Dutch?
There is probably different ones no?
Sure, for example the central European apple pie ("Apfelstrudel") is in fact an apple roll. What I'm talking about is the classic one with a grid on it.
Apfelstrudel? Isn't that german? And i doubt no one can be exactly sure when and where it was invented
Probably Austrian, but I think every central European country would claim it for their own.
I think putting fruit with flour and some sweeteners is pretty generic to everyplace apples grows in general. I know we made dishes similar to apple pie at least as early as the medieval period in Scandinavia, but we don´t really have written sources before that so it could be earlier.
Umm Adam?
Britain called, they want their pies back...
Just breath to them
Can we throw it at them? They said they want them back XD
Also, apples originally grew in Eastern European places like Kazakhstan and was eventually brought over. If you want to make a pie out of uniquely North American fruit, try blueberries.
What. There is plenty of blueberries growing wild all over Europe -.-
Serah Wint
They must have been imported and then spread everywhere. Because I'm pretty sure blueberries are native to the Americas. Same with potatoes, tomatoes, all forms of squash (including pumpkins) and turkeys.
Adam Hoffman
Seems like they aren't the same berry according to wikipedia... Huh, learn something every day :#
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilberry
Kazakhstan is in Central Asia, not Eastern Europe.
I love how he misses that first bite and it fights him
Nothing in the US is truely original, and much of our culture can be attributed to our European ancestors. The being said America's culture is still uniquely American. We combine many cultures to form one, it allows us to get the best parts of cultures from all over the world. Granted it also gave us some of the worst parts of culture, but American culture is all about taking ideas from other cultures, and combining them together. Its like the casserole of cultures, except its actually pretty nice.
So true
TY
Cri
Except space travel, American Football, the first home computers, a variety of American cuisine, American literature, a plethora of useful inventions including but not limited to sticky notes, velcro, microwaves, and tang...but yeah, nothing. smh
CommanderCorner America has made plenty of things. (You forgot hyperlinks. The basis of the modern internet, as well as many tools available on the internet, such as youtube itself.) I'm of the sort that thinks its the best country on earth.
My point is that much of America's *culture* is just taking the best from other cultures, and combining it into something that is greater than the sum of it's parts.
Never heard people say it was to begin with
''As American as Mom, Baseball, and Apple Pie''
+sir bigg wudkok North Korea
In england apple pie is still seen as an english dish quite often and this is because we can grow the ingrediants for it and as you said its been around for ages, in england.
It's funny how often America forgets that it's basically just England's little brother.
Little in years, larger in the size of its people.
Actually, more like one of England's many oppressed children that eventually "grew up" into independence.
Potato Shock Oppressed? Haha that's a funny one that is.
Potato Shock ...but still owe their parents for most of their culture lol
+Potato Shock Has someone been going around altering all of your dictionaries over there? I don't think oppression means what most you Americans thinks it means. (See, Feminists and SJWs, and you, apparently.)
because the point of the melting pot totally wasn't about bringing different aspects of other cultures and blending them together to make a better place, noooooo, it's really about the tossed salad approach where everything stays separate. hmm, sounds about as good as tossing someones salad.
Apple- pie is American like tea is British
Ken uptn
I just implied it wasn't british
frisianmouve ok good daddy
Even they took it from China.
Shots fired
it doesn't matter where ingredients come from, it is about what is created out of something.
If you're going to end on that note, you should have played "My Country 'Tis Of Thee" as the backing track.
To be fair, I challenge you to name one "American" food that wasn't culturally appropriated. Hamburgers come from Germany, french fries come from either France or Belgium, pizza comes from Italy, corn comes from a whole bunch of different Native American cultures; America's food , somewhat indicatively of the rest of it, is a grab bag of other cultures. If you ask me, if you want a uniquely American food experience, you have to just try a bunch of different foods from a bunch of different regions and origins. America's a diverse country, and its food reflects that.
fortune cookies
8th wonder of the world
Those came from Japan. Not China, but still another country and another culture.
So that's why that German city is called Hamburg...
Yeah Hamburg was named after the Hamburger
Ironically enough, French fries were invented in America, they are called French fries because the first time they were served was to a French politician.
Who would think apple pie is american in the first place ? USA has a very short history they can't have been the ones who invented things that existed before them !
Under 1k views ;), I love you Adam you are so witty and clever!
Gonna ruin Adam's character... He is just merely acting... He doesn't know any of that! He read from a script!
David He probably does some research, but some things are pointed out to him as good ideas. Then he goes and researches on them.
Okay then... He didn't stand at attention or salute when the national anthem is played. How very unpatriotic!
David Joke right? (Hard to tell on the internet.)
Hyper_Warrior of course!
He's trying so hard to look like he ate a bite without letting it actually touch his mouth 😂 as Adam has said all TV is fake lmao
I always thought “England” when I hear apple pie.
It made sense considering most of the apple pie's basic ingredients were brought from Europe.
so.. it IS American. To steal from others is an American tradition and apple pie is one of its icons
How do you "steal" a food? Aren't cultures meant to be shared
Michael Jacobson
It was meant as a joke, not as a serious poke at americans. Even if I don't agree with cultures being meant to be shared, elements from other cultures may be adapted if it is deemed more suited for your own culture. Thankfully no one has to 'give' culture. It's a free for all :-P
Shangori what was stolen?
Pelle Apelfeldt i feel like i am missing some context
I like how he has trouble picking up the piece of pie with his fork
Should said “As American as baseball games!!” 🤔🤣
"Cultural appropriation" does not exist.
Because culture only lives when it is shared.
Culture is meant to be spread !
Agreed. I'm not Japanese, but I love all their anime's.
You don't have to claim something as your own in order to spread it. Americans sure do love their pizza, but nobody ever forgot that Italy invented it.
Curry and indian food in general is INSANELY popular in Britain, but nobody ever stopped calling it "indian food".
+Sky Paladin Ja, I can testify that UK loves Asian food. Oh, Turkish, Chinese too. So basically everything from Noodles, Momos to Curry, mutton Curry is cheap, fatty, unhealthy and TOTALLY preferred to tea and biscuits.
Culture are more like traditions passed down to generations to generations
+A TH-cam Commenter Look at the cologne attacks
New season?
lol
Love it!!!
but americans originally came from Britain well many of them
The original colonists were mostly British, yes. But by the time of the American Revolution, many colonists were born on North American soil and spent their days in a society felt oppressed by the English monarchy. One reason why the American Revolution was so explosive was because it turned brother against brother, dividing the loyalties of families. Colonists didn't want to be seen as British because they felt shafted by the British rule over them.
how dare you come from irish and itailian origins
Not really cultural apportionment you when, WHEN WE ARE BRITISH!
i aint got a drop of brit blood in me, i got scottish, irish, german, african, and hard boled AMERICAN!!
Halvos no mate no
catninja 64 Scots Are British as well you vegetable.
Halvos nope you guys are a mix of Italian, English, Spanish, German, and many other countries, I believe in the past the US had to decide whether to speak German or English as the national language, we the British are very ashamed to speak the same language as you lot so go home and do research
catninja 64 Scots are part of Britain as England is England, Great Britain is wales, Scotland and England, and the UK is Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England so SCOTS ARE BRITS ASWELL
now I'm in the mood for Apple pie
So I-Robot now makes sense while he ate his pie like that.
Plus, apples are from Kazakhstan. Pumpkin pie, since pumpkins are from the American continent, is more American
Well, technically no, the recipe of Pumpkin pie comes from the UK too, it was a squash pie that has just been swapped for pumpkin because that was the local veg when the pioneers arrived in the Americas but the spices and the recipe is basically the same as the British recipe.
drewpre Except that all squash originated in America. The term “squash“ comes from “Askoot Asquash” which is Algonquin for “eaten green”, A name a kin to the fact that most squash should be eaten about a week after their blossom fully opens. The settlers in America learn how to grow pumpkins from the Native Americans and it help them get through the winter months. And originally, “pumpkin pie”, being a crust with a filling, would’ve been impossible for the early Americans who lacked the flour, fat, and ovens to make a pie crust. Earliest pumpkin pie would’ve been more of a pumpkin soup, as Alton Brown demonstrated on his show, Good Eats.
www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/whole-pumpkin-pie-soup-recipe-1922442.amp
*shrugs* its still tasty though
The crust in apple pie used to be much denser than what we know today. Breads and crusts were used as a kind of plate, called "trenchers". After the meal you could eat the trencher with sauce, or it was fed to livestock or given as alms to the poor.
... this show is weirdly educational and I would like to show my school this
adam my hero :)
We should start a fan club or something.
Hell ya
count me in
the saying should be "as American as nicking other people's stuff/ideas/land".
Even though immigrants from other countries willingly came and brought it with them...put that way it's not really stealing anymore.
+0IIIIII the american culture is just a mish mash of other people's cultures and traditions, but that is because it is such a young country in comparison to the europeans and africans and asians. Im sure over time their culture will develop to become a real culture with original ideas. And if that makes americans sad then just remember, america invented McDonalds, so that is something to be proud of.
Nebula Gaming
ok
Well you can keep deep-fried butter.
Steve Tomson and I really hate that people that are non American
Use airplanes and the Internet they should stop culturally appropriate America
Now pumpkin pie can officially take it's rightful throne as America's pie.
Cakes, pies....
ADAM RUINS BAKED GOODS
Has America actually made anything purely American, besides Stereotypes?
+Gray Buckley (farore3) Sorry to shoot you down but it has been originated back to the Mediterranean Countries like Italy Greece Egypt as the making of Flat bread became quite common and it wasn't until the late 1800's until topping weren't added (The first American Pizza Shop opened in 1905)
Let's be honest, America did not invent the stereotype. Americans have made lots of stuff that have attributed to the "pure American" image however. Rock and Roll, Rap, movies, American Football, the ability to fly, Baseball, lots of stuff.
+FlashMan The first ever film recorder was invented by a French man something Edison copied then copyrighted it.
American Football is a altered version of Rugby and Football is soccer and Baseball is a altered version of Rounders
Don't be suggesting the ability to fly was invented, as the Wright Brothers made the successful airplane long distance however a New Zealander made a design and it traveled 350 yards before crashing a number of months before the Brothers.
Rapping came from a Jamaican and Rock and Roll hasn't got anything conflicting in origin
+Gray Buckley (farore3) You'll be surprised by how much US history books are made with blind patroism it says the 'After the Japanese Empire attacked Pearl Harbour declaring War, this resulted in a declaration of War against the Axis powers' This is Wrong Hitler declared War on the US after the Attack on Pearl Harbour and the text seem to make people believe the US joined willingly
+Commonwealth Of Nations
US did join WWII willingly
Cultural appropriation isn't a thing. The victor takes the spoils
GIVE THIS MAN A COOKIE! Or a slice of apple pie. ;)
+legofan370 i would love to "culturaly appropriate" a bottle of Jack Daniels :D
XD
victor of what exactly
can't appropriate a culture if you don't have one.
*Dean Winchester cries in background
*sees title* that can't be true, in America's marukaite chikyuu he can't forget the taste of the freshly baked apple pie he ate!
I love Adam's videos, but the word "cultural appropriation" makes me cringe
Cultural appropriation shouldn't make you cringe, it's just a term for a thing that exists. It doesn't have to mean that it's a _bad_ thing, just a thing. Borrowing the best/most useful ideas other people have come up with is how we as a species advance, and I don't see anyone suggesting it's wrong for a Chinese person to practice western medicine of a black person to play the piano, even though those are also examples of appropriation.
+lancer D that's the problem, I'm fine with it and think it's really not a big deal but some people get so angry about it and blame you for it.
na the problem is when people just assume it comes from there country because there country's the best
I hear you, man. Sjw ruin everything.
***** ah ok
I got a ad for apple pie before this XD
Parker Rubinstein
Then you should go see how Adams ruins facebook if you haven't already.
First time I heard the phrase "cultural appropriation" and didn't cringe. Adam is a miracle worker.
Ehh I did, it freaked me out because I thought he was going sjw and begin say stuff on the lines of "people wearing dreads are evil," like that girl who try to assault that stoner guy.
If you can take something, it's yours.
On this episode of “Adam struggles to eat pie”-
"Nothing more American than something that was originally British"- me, about 5 minutes ago
Why are these so short nowdays :(
Perhaps it could be related to how well apples could be stored for long journeys like the trip to california leading to apple seeds spreading throughout america.
olstar18 Now you have Monsanto. Wait, crap. With brexit they can come here. I GOTTA START BULK BUYING!
America - Tea isn't British! You stole tea from China!
England - YOU TOOK OUR PIES
He struggled to get that piece of pie on that fork
Do you know what’s American?
M-16 RIFLES *GET ONE TODAY*
Now I just want a pie
When is season 2?
Like “As Chinese as Fortune Cookie?” :)
You wouldn't eat the crust because this was a time before processed sugar; old pie crusts were kind of like hardened plaster.
Now I want apple pie.
Yes, it even loosely traces back to the Tudor era.
Tbh what's more American than stealing something from someone you deem to be less than you at the time and claiming it was yours all along
American revolutionists: We make our own apple pie!
As a British guy, one can confirm that Apple Pie is supremely British.
one tends to have it either with custard, cream or ice cream.
England has perfect weather for apples and as such apple pie is common
I heard somewhere that the reason that early pastry wasn't eaten was because it was inedible due to how they made it. At least That's what I've heard.
Old timey bento box? But the bento box -is- old-timey. It became popular at the turn of the fifteenth century.
THANK YOU I KNEW IT!!!
So far, I've only watched 2 clips of this show and both only had partial truths to them.
One fun thing about America is our variety of food, since we have so many different people you can find some interesting new foods if you look around. :)
The only time i've ever heard an apple pie be called "american" is in this video
watching this while eating apple pie. that's all.
3 attempts to get a fork full of pie
FYI, American Apple Pie is extremely different from British. How? Spices. Specifically cinnamon and nutmeg. I was given weird looks for suggesting it be added.
Do they not eat apple pie with cinnamon in america....?
mate now im hungry
Why is the show so short now
Isn't there the saying "as American as baseball and apple pie"? Baseball actually has its origins in Ireland as a sport called Irish rounders.
jajajaja te amo Adam
It wasn't being wasteful,the pastry wasn't eaten as it was poisonous from the cooking process,the pastry was there solely to protect the filling.
Dammit I want pie now thanks
And red white and blue in flags is very popular
Germany seems to be our favorite place to get "American" food. Including apple pie, which was inspired by apple strudel.
Not necessarily. Apple pie predates strudel by 300 years. The two are unrelated, since during the time apple pie was invented, england and germany didnt really interact that much. Apple pie was probably inspired by dutch or french desserts.
Still works
0:27 everyone knows that's why the crust exists.
Well we still got muscle cars ,trucks , and rock and roll! right? RIGHT?!
They used to eat the filling and throw the rest away? Sounds like what I do anyway
Adam should explain how calling French Fries, Freedom Fries is Un-American.
(The name "French Fries" was given to them by Thomas Jefferson, after he brought a Swedish potato cutter back from France. A founding father gave "French Fries" their name.)
To be fair if you thought that the apple pie was just American then u need to watch this show😂😂
and apple pie had a slice of cheddar on top of it too in the past
What's more American than taking something that isn't ours and saying it's ours to begin with
Actually, that was invented before America. That was invented a long long time before America. We don't know an exact date, although I can only assume that some Greek philosopher's stole each-other's work back in the day, and there is definitely still plagiarism in Britain.
@@JonathanSmith-ge4pi I agree.
You can keep apple pie, the real gem of apple based dessert in the UK is the apple crumble, with brown sugar, a pinch of cinnamon and custard 😋
It could be argued that cornbread would be the most "American" pastry. Native Americans have had it as a dietary staple for thousands of years and in many forms (contrary to what Kalen Allen believes).
DrewToLife Native Americans technically are Americans.
I already knew that