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Apple Pie
Apple pie actually originated in medieval England and the Netherlands, brought to America by colonial settlers well before it became shorthand for American identity itself — the phrase "as American as apple pie" only became a widely used cultural cliché in the 20th century, ironically cementing an imported dessert as one of the country's defining culinary symbols. Procter & Gamble's introduction of Crisco in 1911, developed in Cincinnati as one of the first commercially successful vegetable shortenings, transformed home pie-crust baking nationwide by offering a cheaper, longer-lasting alternative to lard and butter, and the company built decades of advertising specifically around Crisco's ability to produce a flakier, more reliable pie crust. Apple pie's association with patriotic and holiday occasions grew substantially through World War II, when American soldiers were widely quoted saying they were fighting "for mom and apple pie," a phrase that helped permanently fuse the dessert with American national identity in the popular imagination. Its combination of a genuinely deep, centuries-old baking tradition and a 20th-century reputation as the single most quintessentially "American" dessert has made apple pie one of the most symbolically fitting ways to close out a Fourth of July cookout, regardless of its actual English and Dutch culinary origins.
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Grilled Hamburgers
Grilled hamburgers became the anchor of the American backyard Fourth of July cookout largely alongside the postwar boom in suburban homeownership and the backyard charcoal grill through the 1950s, when a patty cooked outdoors over an open flame became a genuinely different, more celebratory food than the same burger fried on a griddle indoors. Louis' Lunch in New Haven, Connecticut, has claimed since 1900 to have served the first hamburger sandwich in the country, grilling a beef patty between two slices of toast for a customer in a hurry — a claim historians still debate against several competing origin stories, but one the tiny restaurant has built its entire identity around for well over a century. The backyard grilling ritual that eventually made the burger a Fourth of July staple owes as much to the postwar spread of the Weber kettle grill, patented in 1952, as to the burger itself — a genuinely new piece of consumer technology that turned outdoor cooking from a rustic camping activity into a mainstream suburban weekend and holiday tradition. Its combination of being simple enough for a home cook to grill for a crowd and flexible enough to top endlessly to taste has made the hamburger the single most universal centerpiece of the American Fourth of July cookout, the dish nearly every backyard gathering builds its spread around.
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