“Pie is the culinary currency of the Midwest. You know you’ve moved into the Midwest when you start getting really good pie.” -Alton Brown

Fact: TWFoP was started by a Midwesterner, a tried and true pie fan.

New York Times, 1902
“It is utterly insufficient (to eat pie only twice a week), as anyone who knows the secret of our strength as a nation and the foundation of our industrial supremacy must admit. Pie is the American synonym of prosperity, and its varying contents the calendar of the changing seasons. Pie is the food of the heroic. No pie-eating people can ever be permanently vanquished.”

In response to an Englishman’s suggestion that Americans should reduce their daily pie eating to two days per week.

“The sugar suggesting jelly, yet not jellied, the morsels of apple neither dissolved nor yet in original substance, but hanging as it were in a trance between the spirit and the flesh of applehood… then, O blessed man, favored by all the divinities! Eat, give thanks and go forth, ‘in apple-pie order !’”
~ Rev. Henry Ward Beecher of Indiana

“Thy breath is like the steame of apple-pyes.”
Written in praise of a lovely lady.
~Arcadia
Robert Green, 1590

“But I, when I undress me
Each night, upon my knees
Will ask the Lord to bless me
With apple-pie and cheese.”
~Eugene Field

“A boy doesn’t have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn’t like pie when he sees there isn’t enough to go around.”
~E.W. Howe