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To
eat humble pie, in common usage, is to apologize and face humiliation for a serious error.
Humble pie is also a term for a variety of pastries, originally based on
medieval meat tripe pies.
Etymology
The expression derives from
umble pie, which was a
pie filled with
liver,
heart and other
offal, especially of
cow but often
deer or
boar.
Umble evolved from
numble, (after the
French nomble) meaning 'deer's innards'.
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)(External Link) Umbles were considered inferior food, in
medieval times the pie was often served to lower-class people.
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, and "umble" was a humble meal anyway, the phrase was
rebracketed as "humble pie". While "umble" is now gone from the language, the phrase remains, carrying the fossilized word as an
idiom.
Humble Pie
Humble pie in its literal sense is a filled
pastry similar to many respects to a Cornish
pasty.
Although the original humble pies contained mostly
tripe they later evolved to a form which might contain fruit and sweetening, often sans meat. Recent humble pie recipes often have only
sweet fillings.
(External Link) (External Link) Modern humble meat pie recipe often included pricier cuts of meat such as chopped steak.
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