As American As… Pear Pie?
“As American as Mom’s _______ pie.” Most people would automatically fill that space with the word “apple.” There’s certainly nothing wrong with apple pie (it’s one of our favorites), but the word “pear” would be just as correct. Domesticated apples may have been cultivated in America first (the first apple orchard on the North American continent was planted in Boston by a certain Reverend William Blaxton in 1625), but if pears weren’t there at the very start, there is no doubt that they …