Cheddar Cheese on Apple Pie

[MelissaBaby]

It's funny what readers sometimes focus on when making comments. Previously, I got a lot of responses asking about dilly beans, after mentioning them in a story. (For those who don't know, dilly beans are just just like dill pickles, but made with green beans rather than cucumbers.)

In my new story, The Gold Dollar Girls, the characters eat apple pie with cheddar melted on top, and sure enough, I'm getting comments about that.

Anyone else have examples of readers focusing on odd details in their comments?

 

[lovecraft68]

When I was in High School I had a friend who-and his whole family-would eat an onion like an apple, just peel it and bit into it.

never saw anyone do that before or since. For some reason I decided to have a character do that in a story to add to the fact he was a little weird. I got several comments about it, mostly "who does that" but one person saying that his entire family had always done it.

I used to wonder....could it have been him?

 

[RejectReality]

When I was in High School I had a friend who-and his whole family-would eat an onion like an apple, just peel it and bit into it.

never saw anyone do that before or since. For some reason I decided to have a character do that in a story to add to the fact he was a little weird. I got several comments about it, mostly "who does that" but one person saying that his entire family had always done it.

I used to wonder....could it have been him?

Okay, that's freaky. I had one friend whose whole family did that too.

Is there some secret society issuing one to every region in an attempt to normalize it? If they are, they're failing because

 

[lovecraft68]

Okay, that's freaky. I had one friend whose whole family did that too.

Is there some secret society issuing one to every region in an attempt to normalize it? If they are, they're failing because

The secret society of the sacred Scallion, they are slowly insidiously taking over!

 

[TarnishedPenny]

In a literal sense, no. I must confess however that I have had more than a couple of comments which bore absolutely no relationship to the story in question. One corrected my choice of words, but they were words I had used nowhere in the tale. Another was obviously talking of a story in a totally different category.

Damfino.

PS. Dilly beans are good, cheddar with apple pie even more so.

 

[NotWise]

My dad loved cheddar cheese on apple pie. I never tried it.

My readers have commented on things when they were odd, but nothing like food choices. My maternal grandfather used to put sugar on cottage cheese. I tried that when I was a kid and liked it. If I wrote that into a story, then someone would probably comment.

 

[SamScribble]

I often include food in my stories. I find food can be very erotic. But not everyone agrees. ‘This not a fucking cooking site,’ one commenter told me, in no uncertain terms. Hmm. Fucking and cooking perhaps?

 

[lovecraft68]

My father made mashed potato sandwiches. He also would take bologna and cheese sandwiches, fold them in half and dip them in cocoa.

 

[MelissaBaby]

My dad loved cheddar cheese on apple pie. I never tried it.

My readers have commented on things when they were odd, but nothing like food choices. My maternal grandfather used to put sugar on cottage cheese. I tried that when I was a kid and liked it. If I wrote that into a story, then someone would probably comment.

When I was a kid I had a friend whose mother hollowed out red bell peppers and filled them with cottage cheese. The kids ate them like ice cream cones. They were actually a pretty good summertime snack.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I often include food in my stories. I find food can be very erotic. But not everyone agrees. ‘This not a fucking cooking site,’ one commenter told me, in no uncertain terms. Hmm. Fucking and cooking perhaps?

I got a comment from a reader who found the idea of a tuna sandwich disgusting.

 

[Rustyoznail]

One story was marked down by a reader because I mentioned Vegemite...

 

[TarnishedPenny]

One story was marked down by a reader because I mentioned Vegemite...

And properly so!

 

[MelissaBaby]

I tried vegemite once. It tasted like a cube of beef bouillon from a jar that got forgotten in the back of the cupboard for years.

 

[Bramblethorn]

When I was in High School I had a friend who-and his whole family-would eat an onion like an apple, just peel it and bit into it.

never saw anyone do that before or since. For some reason I decided to have a character do that in a story to add to the fact he was a little weird. I got several comments about it, mostly "who does that" but one person saying that his entire family had always done it.

I used to wonder....could it have been him?

Our former Prime Minister did that on camera:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tqXSPkDbX4

When a famous cricketer died, people did a "put your bats out" thing - display a cricket bat outside the front door in memory. So when Abbott got the boot, it was "put your onions out".

 

[Bramblethorn]

I often include food in my stories. I find food can be very erotic. But not everyone agrees. ‘This not a fucking cooking site,’ one commenter told me, in no uncertain terms. Hmm. Fucking and cooking perhaps?

I put an entire recipe in one of mine. No complaints, though.

 

[SimonDoom]

My food sex story (sister seduces brother while cooking him dinner and they end up pouring food all over each other while having sex) drew a couple of amusing comments.

One person was concerned about the risk of urinary tract infections.

One reader was turned off by my use of the word "pungent" and said it spoiled the fantasy.

Another said he stopped reading after my use of the word "greasy."

It is amusing what people notice.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Cheddar cheese with apple pie or cake is a traditional English thing, but I've never known anyone to melt the cheese.

I posted my first couple stories on Lit to a total absence of comments for months, except for a guy who objected to my username on the grounds that kumquats are horrible small bitter things and biting into one gives a sour face.

I pointed out that this is why they need to be simmered in syrup to produce the bitter and sweet contrast - rather like the BDSM story he'd just dismissed as a 'mediocre poker piece' which was amusing as there was no poking at all involved...

 

[lovecraft68]

Here, eating onions is/was a thing with people that are/were infected with covid. Apparently, some of the effects are the loss of taste and smell. Like an ice-bucket-challenge kind-of thing.

My wife's best friend had covid last summer, it took two months for her smell/taste to come back.

I did the ice bucket challenge, but for years I also did the Penguin Plunge in Jamestown RI so the bucket was a lot easier than diving into the freezing water and going completely under. The party afterward and the Hot Toddy's made up for it though.

 

[SimonDoom]

Cheddar cheese with apple pie or cake is a traditional English thing, but I've never known anyone to melt the cheese.

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I've known people from the Midwestern US swear by cheddar cheese with apple pie, but they did not melt it. Growing up where I did I never heard of this practice until I was in my 20s.

 

[SyleusSnow]

I knew someone who sprinkled salt on an apple between bites. Apparently it's one of those very regional customs.

Most of my stories have food and people cooking together. Like Sam says, food can be very erotic... plus cooking and eating is a great vehicle for getting characters to interact and reveal traits (anyone remember the molasses scene in To Kill A Mockingbird?)

In one story I have a fun scene with friends sharing chocolate fondue in the nude, and another with scenes of people cleaning fish that at least one reader really appreciated. (Hard to predict what some people find erotic

In that same story I dared delve into the highly divisive pineapple on pizza controversy and received a few fun comments about that

 

[jaF0]

My maternal grandfather used to put sugar on cottage cheese. I tried that when I was a kid and liked it. If I wrote that into a story, then someone would probably comment.

I do that sometimes. If you add the right fruit, it's sort of like ice cream, or maybe yogurt.


Many, many years ago, I worked in a drop forging plant, right behind the hammer, and beside the furnace. The shop kept lemons in the ice machine and on break, we'd take one and eat it like an orange. Not sour at all. Something to do with us being hot and them being cold.

 

[Javahead]

My dad loved cheddar cheese on apple pie. I never tried it.

My readers have commented on things when they were odd, but nothing like food choices. My maternal grandfather used to put sugar on cottage cheese. I tried that when I was a kid and liked it. If I wrote that into a story, then someone would probably comment.

Isn't cheese on apple pie supposedly a Yankee thing?

Though my grandfather loved it that way, and he was born in the upper Midwest. I occasionally eat it that way myself - a sharp cheddar is especially good with pie.

 

[mynameisben]

I don't think I'd care for cheddar cheese on apple pie.

I like to sprinkle a little Worcestershire sauce on my apple pie.


Ben

 

[MelissaBaby]

Isn't cheese on apple pie supposedly a Yankee thing?

Though my grandfather loved it that way, and he was born in the upper Midwest. I occasionally eat it that way myself - a sharp cheddar is especially good with pie.

I was thinking it was a New England thing, like Grapenut pudding, Fluffernutter sandwiches and brown bread in a can.

 

[jaF0]

I like to sprinkle a little Worcestershire sauce on my apple pie.

I'm pretty sure that would make it worster.