100 YEARS AGO
July 7, 1921
Among the many varieties of food that have been attacked on the score of indigestibility, etc., pie stands among the foremost. Laymen, doctors, and even philosophers have warned against the popular pastime of pie eating.
Cake, the distant pastry relative, is somewhat less likely to form the subject of objections from the physiologic critic, while pudding usually belong to the immunes, or at least receive tolerant consideration. The proof of the pudding – is in the eating. Accordingly, a number of gastroenterologists at the Jefferson Memorial college, Philadelphia, reports the Journal of the American Medical Association, have come to the defense of pie by actually determining the gastric response to it and analogous foods in the healthy human stomach.