The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #79702   Message #1446009
Posted By: PoppaGator
29-Mar-05 - 01:49 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Methodist Pie
Subject: RE: Origins: Methodist Pie
In one of Woody Allen's films, his New-York-Jewish alter-ego character has a shiksa (Gentile) girlfriend whose talents in the kitchen are not appreciated by his family ~ they have a thing or two to say about her "Presbyterian pie."

I wonder if Woody made this up out of thin air, or if he had heard of the "Methodist pie" referenced here, but decided to go with a more alliterative version. Or, if there were already a variant folksong about a pie of a different denomination ~ ??