My mom is the keeper of our oven's fire.
我的媽媽是我們家烤箱火焰的守護者。
She said she would do very extreme things to protect Grandma's secret apple pie recipe.
她曾說,她會做很極端的事,來保護祖母的蘋果派祕方。
My girlfriend came to my home to make a pie for the first time. Mom told her that she had to marry me.
當我的女朋友第一次來我家做派時,媽媽告訴她,現在她必須嫁給我。
She really married me, maybe because she was afraid of punishment.
她真的嫁了,也許是怕受到懲罰。
Never mind that this food is not from America.
別管這種食物不是來自美國。
Colonists brought apples, and we became an apple pie country.
殖民者帶來了蘋果,我們變成了一個蘋果派國家。
"Mom and apple pie" became a phrase in the last century. It meant cute, typical American things.
「媽媽和蘋果派」在上個世紀,成為代表可愛、典型美國事物的說法。
Soldiers in both world wars wanted to eat apple pie.
兩次世界大戰中的士兵都想吃蘋果派。
A Texas mom sent one to the Soviet headquarters in Manhattan. It was for visiting Khrushchev.
一位德州媽媽寄了一個到曼哈頓的蘇聯總部,給來訪的赫魯雪夫。
It caused a bomb scare.
結果引起炸彈恐慌。
In the 1960s, there were many wars and social problems in other countries.
1960年代有很多海外戰爭和社會動盪。
McDonald's brought out fried apple pies in the chaos, as a comfort.
麥當勞在混亂中推出油炸蘋果派,當作一種安慰。
I learned about that time in an American history class. The class was about the years after World War II.
我在二戰後美國歷史課上學到那個時期。
In the first week, we had to give something that stands for America.
第一週,我們要交出一個象徵美國的東西。
I gave a photo of a bald eagle.
我交了一張禿鷹的照片。
The teacher, Bill Schechter, was not moved at all.
老師比爾·謝克特完全不感動。
Two girls brought out a McDonald's apple pie. It showed that business and buying things took the place of mom's cooking.
兩個女孩則拿出一個麥當勞蘋果派,代表企業和消費主義取代了媽媽的烹飪。
Mr. Schechter put the pie on the blackboard. He wanted to see if its preservatives kept it.
謝克特先生把那個派放在黑板上,測試它的防腐劑保存能力。
Years later, that pie "looked as good as new."
多年後,那個派「看起來和新的一樣」。
He told me that apple pie was a main food for Jack Kerouac. This was in On the Road. But not the McDonald's kind.
他提醒我,蘋果派是傑克·凱魯亞克在《在路上》中的主要食物,但不是麥當勞那種。
That pie was made in large numbers. It showed the time when I began to see America in a different way.
那個大量生產的派,代表我開始用不同方式看美國的時刻。
McDonald's brought back the fried apple pie for America's 250th birthday.
麥當勞為美國建國250週年,重新推出油炸蘋果派。
Like Kerouac, I will eat the homemade kind. Just don't ask for the secret recipe.
像凱魯亞克一樣,我會堅持自製的,只是別問祕方。