I put aside a whole day and got to work peeling, slicing and coating my apples in a delicious sugar-cinnamon mix. I covered my pie dish in pastry and then assembled the whole lot until it was one giant mound of apple. I put the second layer of pastry over the top, cut a few slits for the steam and popped the pie into the oven. And waited. (And made sure I had vanilla ice cream in the fridge.)
Apple pie is quite the iconic symbol of the USA. But not half as American as...Archie Andrews! My sister and I had quite the Archie comic collection growing up. It helped immensely that each Saturday we’d have to accompany our parents to their place of business, which just happened to have a newsagency next door. We would spend our weekly allowance buying up every comic they had and then we'd read them from cover to cover, while eating potato cakes and watching Saturday morning cartoons. Oh, how simple life was back then.
Archie and the gang had so many adventures! I loved when they went to Pops, often wishing we had our own soda-fountain-type diner to hang out in, and since I was a brunette, I immediately aligned myself with the fabulous Veronica (the original, and best, Queen B). Pies were always showing up in Archie’s universe. Jughead would be at a pie-eating contest, Betty and Veronica would be selling them at a bake sale, and there was one comic strip in particular that had a really terrible pie joke in it. I laughed just the same.
The first time I went to the States, I bought an Archie comic for old time’s sake and it was quite the thrill.
I loved living in Archie’s world, and it seems that the popularity of the gang remains strong today. A gay character that was recently introduced to Riverdale has received his own series, just proving how Archie is progressing with the times. It was nice visiting Archie again for this blog post, and my pie turned out really well, too!
Next stop, cherry pie: take 2.
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