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I looked at the online store for a local orchard and they had several different flavors of humble pie--one for each fruit they have. So what makes, say, an apple humble pie different from an apple pie?

2006-07-12 13:54:06 · 5 answers · asked by poopy_macpoop 1 in Food & Drink Cooking & Recipes

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They really don't know the definition of humble pie!

NOUN:
A pie formerly made from the edible organs of a deer or hog.

IDIOM:
eat humble pie
To be forced to apologize abjectly or admit one's faults in humiliating circumstances.

ETYMOLOGY:
Alteration (influenced by humble ), of obsolete umble pie Middle English umbles, edible animal organs (variant of numbles, from Norman French nombles, from Old French, loin of veal, probably from alteration of Latin lumbulus, diminutive of lumbus, loin) + pie

2006-07-12 14:56:07 · answer #1 · answered by Swirly 7 · 0 0

Duh, a humble is not a fruit. It is the name given to a meager (or humble) entree pie made fromleftovers, meat scraps, and less desirable organ meats. It has since morphed into a term meaning being humble, not proud and puffed up.

2006-07-12 14:01:02 · answer #2 · answered by Sugar Pie 7 · 0 0

They are made by the Amish.

2006-07-12 13:59:43 · answer #3 · answered by blasted 3 · 0 0

It's made with humility? I have no idea!

2006-07-12 13:59:36 · answer #4 · answered by Vanessa B 4 · 0 0

It doesn't boast or brag.

2006-07-12 13:57:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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