 In the United States of America, there is a popular saying that "there are few things as American as apple pie".In the United States, pie and especially apple pie, became "bound up in American mythology" to the point that in 1902, "The New York Times" asserted that "Pie is the food of the heroic" and stated that "No pie-eating people can ever be permanently vanquished".The slang expression "to eat humble pie" comes from the umble pie, which was made with "chopped or minced innards of an animal", a "cheap offal filling...eaten by the poor".