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> apple pie "uniquely American" My Romanian grandma, born in the 1920s, that never traveled more than 100km from her birthplace and never saw even the Black Sea, would beg to differ :-p
Such is the cultural reach of America's blue jeans and rock 'n roll.
I highly doubt that my almost illiterate grandma, that grew up in interwar Romania and lived afterwards behind the Iron Curtain, discovered apple pie through American media :-))