{"id":19016,"date":"2017-05-28T20:58:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T00:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=19016"},"modified":"2017-05-28T21:00:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T01:00:06","slug":"no-apples-needed-mock-apple-pie-with-ritz-crackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/no-apples-needed-mock-apple-pie-with-ritz-crackers\/","title":{"rendered":"‘no apples needed’ Mock Apple Pie with RITZ Crackers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, seriously.<\/p>\n

In 2002, while I was living in England, I stumbled upon this phenomenon. I remember specifically it was an English lady I met who when I told her I was American she asked me to tell her more about RITZ apple pies. I had no idea<\/em> what she was talking about! She went on to explain how she once had an apple-less apple-tasting pie, and thought Americans were essentially weirdos for figuring out how to make an apple pie from crackers! I still had no idea<\/em> what she was talking about! The next time I saw her she brought the box. It wasn’t this image but it looked very similar to:<\/p>\n

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Now this was 2002. So I didn’t have a camera or smartphone on me to take a photo, so I … transcribed it, by hand! On a postcard! I tried this recipe later that year as was gobsmacked (how English of me!) by how credible and convincing this recipe is – your mileage may vary:<\/p>\n

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Of course it’s 2017 now (was that really 15 years ago…dang…) and so a two-second Google search<\/a> returns literally hundreds of results now – here is one<\/a> and here is someone else’s story<\/a>. It’s totally a thing, and now so can you.<\/p>\n

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Yes, seriously. In 2002, while I was living in England, I stumbled upon this phenomenon. I remember specifically it was an English lady I met who when I told her I was American she asked me to tell her more about RITZ apple pies. I had no idea what she was talking about! She went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[612,1383],"series":[],"class_list":["post-19016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuffs","tag-food","tag-pie"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2014-10-15-mock-apple-pie.jpg?fit=1908%2C1542&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-4WI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19016"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19025,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19016\/revisions\/19025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19016"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=19016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}