Btw, I've also enjoyed cheese with pumpkin pie in New England -- anyone else tried this or other pie and cheese combos?

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I do not like them
here or there.
I do not like them
anywhere.

i've made an apple pie with a gruyere crust- just like they did in Pushing Daisies! It really added a nice pungent bite and saltiness to counter the pie's sweetness.

stevep4 - hilarious! I am with you on this one, in fact, until a few months ago, I did not even know that people put cheese on pie; eww.

One of my favorite snacks is a big juicy apple and a hunk of good sharp cheddar. Never tried the cheese with the pie though! Guess I have a new mission for thanksgiving this year.

i love a nice sharp, white vermont cheddar with my apple pie :)

when i was in high school, an uncle of mine was stationed in georgia. when he proposed the cheese and pie idea i turned up my detroiter nose at it without a thought. living in columbus, ohio, a vermont-born friend of mine shared some cheese and pie from home. i've been sold since. years later, i live next to boston and always serve them aside of one another.

maybe i was too young to experiment and needed those years to grow in my tastes. could've been working under a curious chef in alaska that broadened them. who knows? but i'm a believer now!

crostini with cheese and apple butter is a favorite snack, too :)

I grew up in Idaho with German grandparents. I have never had apple pie without sharp cheddar cheese. You all should try it, it is delicious!

Very good -- a nice crumbly slice of white cheddar is wonderful with a warm slice of pie.

gruyere all the way.

(im texan btw)

I'm in the same boat: growing up in Texas, I never saw this in all my years until a friend in college suggested it. My little mind was in shock for a few seconds, but after I calmed down and gave it a try....well, it was pretty darn good.

However, when I make it myself I stick to my cheese-less apple pie roots!

We don't do this. I tried it after reading it in a magazine years ago and I don't get the appeal. The apple pies I grew up on were very mildly sweet, usually using only the sweetness of the apple (Jonathans or McIntoshes, which are admittedly extremely sugary apples) and little to no added sweetener. The taste of cheese with a pie like that overpowered it. Are New England apple pies sweeter? I'm a Midwesterner.

Extra sharp NY cheddar, on the side!

I grew up in NYC and never heard of this until I was in my teens or twenties, but I have eaten cheese and apples or pears together. I don't make it myself b/c my partner is lactose intolerant, but I really like apple pie with sharp cheddar in/ on the crust.

Haha, stevep4, I was thinking of expressing my distaste for cheese apple pie in the same Sam-I-am manner.

I actually love a snack of raw apples and cheddar cheese, not layered together but just eaten together. Carb protein = great, tasty snack. So I thought I would like apple pie with a cheddar crust, but I was really underwhelmed. I much prefer my apple pie unadulterated or ala mode.

I thought it was a Midwestern thing! They like to do that here in Minnesota too.

I grew up in NYC too and had never encountered the cheese w/pie thing until I moved to Minneapolis. I see the apple pie w/cheese option at a lot of places both in metropolitan areas (Mpls/StP) and small "outstate" towns. Is it because of the proximity to cheese state Wisconsin?

But I've never tried it. I guess I should.

The flavor of the cheese over powers the uniqueness of the different apple varieties used in the pie. I'll pass. Why spoil a good pie with strong flavored cheese?

I've never heard of this, count me among the ones who read this post and went, "Gross!"

Which is the same reaction I had when I first heard about candied yams.

Have not tried it, but have heard of it before too (saw it in a movie and went "Whuh?"). I might try it if I visited somewhere where it was the norm, but for me, I make my pies on the tarter side, and don't need anything to balance it. ;)

Granny smith lover in Michigan

A piece of good sharp white cheddar next to my pie please. I grew up in Pennsylvania.

I like my savoury to be savoury and my sweet to be sweet. No mixing allowed.

I'm as New England as you can get and I've never seen it happen in my big New England family. Nobody wanted to mess up my mom's apple pie with cheese, it was good enough as it was!

If it helps, for reference we are rural, coastal, Italian-descended on one side and Pilgrim-descended on the other.

Actually I heard it once after relocating to Florida, from an old guy from up north.

I made an apple pie with a sharp cheddar and black pepper crust that was amazing.

I just tried this combination but it was cheddar sprinkled over an apple dutch baby and not a pie, per se. But, the combination was quite nice. I'd love to bake the cheese in the crust like some of the other posters have mentioned.

Grew up in Pittsburgh, parents from Ohio, lived last 20 years in NYC and have never heard of cheese with apple pie. Poor replacement for a scoop of cinnamon ice cream in my opinion.

A friend of mine made an amazing brie and apple pie. Sweet and salty together seems to bring out the best qualities of both foods. (I also come from a family that sprinkles salt on cherries and mangoes, so you can sense where I'm coming from with this.)

I remember seeing a picture of an apple pie covered with slices of what looked like American cheese in one of my mom's 1960's era cookbooks. I was totally appalled.

Now I can sort of guess the appeal, but I don't know if I would ever be able to get past that initial horror.

I'm so surprised at the number of people dissing the sweet/salty combination. I like an aged white cheddar in the crust.

My grandmother always did that, and she's from a German family via Cincinnati. I love it.

I baked apple pie for Christmas last year and my bf's stepdad wondered where the cheese was. So we all tried it with cheese. It wasn't bad and I get the appeal, but I'll take my pie sans cheese, thank you. But I also bake a crumb-top pie, like my Mom-Mom. It might have been better on a double-crusted pie. We're in Connecticut.

I grew up in Connecticut and my best friend's family owned the local apple orchard and I have never heard of this combination. I must say I am curious to try it.

Agreed, Luann and Mota Rose, I grew up in Maine and my family never paired cheese and pie, and the local diners where I ate *plenty* of slices of pie with coffee as a teenager never offered this pairing either, so I'm doubting this is strictly a New England thing. That said, I heart cheese, and I heart cheese with apples, so... I'm confident that this is tasty.

My grandfather used to say that apple pie and cheese thing; he was originally from Delaware but lived near Philadelphia for most of his life. I wonder if it's actually a German combination, based on what others have said here.

When I was in college (in western Massachusetts) they would always serve apple pie with a big plate of cheddar next to it. I don't think 99% of the students knew that they were supposed to go together, but it was nice for those of us who like it. :)

There's an inexplicable hork-factor to pie with cheese for me. Even though cheese and fruit are a perfect combination in so many situations, apple pie and american or cheddar just makes me itch. I'm from Boston and I'd rather have molasses in my tea than cheese on my pie.

Now molasses on/in everything: THAT is New England! I was also shocked to learn that brown bread in a can was only available in New England when I went away to college in New York. I was walking down the aisle in a Manhattan grocery store with my hot dogs like 'what the heck? I see baked beans... where's the brown bread in a can???'

@ FromTheFuture, I see brown bread in a can at most supermarkets here in Minneapolis. And just like you said, it's right by the baked beans. Another thing I thought was Midwestern since I had never seen it in NY.

I'd read about it as a child, so I knew that this was supposed to be a typical combination. But I grew up in the South where it doesn't seem to be at all common. I never have tried it, and I've never seen pie served this way in a restaurant or at someone's home.

I'd never heard of apple pie with cheese until I was visiting my now-husband in Canada and he made pies. When I reported home that I'd had such a fabulous treat--and that I'd been teased about an upbringing that didn't include cheese with apple pie, I was told that my grandparents often had cheese with apple pie. I could only conclude that I'd never had apple pie at their house.

This concept is fairly new to me, and I'm a midwesterner. I don't really dig pie (it's the crust... too. much. crust.), but my love of cheese (sharp cheddar in particular), has me very intrigued by the thought of this...

I am tempted to start small with a little cheese and apple action... Growing up my favorite snack was wrapping bits of those horrible packaged Kraft singles-type cheese around grapes, so I'm not shy about the fruit/cheese combo... :)

I grew up in Illinois but never heard of the cheese thing until I was a waitress and about half the people who ordered pie wanted cheese on it.

finally after months I tried it.....

YUMM!! Now a pie without cheese is like a baked potato without sour cream..........it tastes fine but it's soo much better with it.

I grew up in Indiana and never had cheese with apple pie. Now I'm mostly vegan and don't eat cheese, so I'll give this one a miss.

I grew up in CT and had never heard of this. I don't feel like I was missing anything. Ew.