Apple Pie

Pie is scary. It is just too much to take in and make sense of. I have come to terms with pudding based pies and will admit to actually liking chocolate and lemon pies. From these pies I have discovered that I love pie crust. This has me warming to pie in general, since you can't have pie crust without pie.

However, apple pie is still scary, but not scary beyond all reason, since I have a very good reason: cooked apple! I can't get beyond that. It is just plain wrong. It's like biting into fruity leather and that is not for me, no way, no how. I don't mind the spices mixed with the apple taste, but the cooked apple ruins that. Maybe if it was puréed. More like an applesauce pie. If I wasn't afraid of applesauce I just might like that.
I think it is sad that cooked apples have ruined pie for me to the point where I am just recovering now. It's not like I dislike anything else in pie. If apple pies were just crust and crumble I'd have them everyday. It's the cooked apple that's tainted my view. I don't like it in pie, in apple crisp, in anything else it is used in.
I have tried apple pie a few times over the years and it is always the same. Not even à la mode can help it. When it is an option I just ask for ice cream, if I'm very lucky I can score some whip cream à la mode. Apple pie can never match that!
VERDICT: Gross, while I've had it to be polite those tastes have just confirmed my dislike for it.

photo borrowed from http://www.colleenhammond.com/blog/2009/07/apple-pie-recipe/