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For|the hard rock band of the same name|Humble Pie (band)To eat humble pie , in common usage, is to apologize and face humiliation for a serious error. Humble pie , or umble pie , is also a term for a variety of pastries based on medieval meat pies.
Etymology
The expression derives from umble pie , which was a pie filled with the chopped or minced parts of a beast's 'pluck' - the heart, liver, lungs or 'lights' and kidneys, especially of deer but often other meats. Umble evolved from numble , (after the French language| French nomble ) meaning 'deer's innards'. http://www.epicurious.com/tools/fooddictionary/entry? id=2995 http://www.gourmetbritain.com/encyclo_entry.php? item=5582
It has occasionally been suggested whom|date=February 2012 that 'umbles' were considered inferior food and that in medieval times the pie was often served to lower-class people, possibly following speculation in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable but there is little evidence for this. Early references in cookbooks such as Liber Cure Cocorum present a grand dish with exotic spices.
Although "umbles" and the modern word "humble" are etymologically unrelated, each word has appeared both with and without the initial "h" after the Middle Ages until the 19th century. Since the sound "h" is often dropped in many dialects the phrase was Juncture loss|rebracketed as "humble pie".Citation needed|date=February 2010 While "umble" is now gone from the language, the phrase remains, carrying the fossilized word as an idiom .
See also
Eating crow
External links
http://www.foodsofengland.co.uk/umbleornumblepie.htm Umble pie at The Foods of England
http://www.pippahunnechurch.com/humble_pie_recipe.php James Huston's Humble Pie Recipe
http://www.westonaprice.org/traditional_diets/merrie_olde_england.html Traditional English Diets
References
Wiktionaryreflist Category:Offal
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