Apple pie and cheese sandwich

Cheese Sandwich

Kind Earth Sex Male Residence Ponyville (S9E26)
Manehattan (formerly) Occupation Party planner
Founder of Amusement Factory Other links

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Eyes	Brilliant chartreuse green
Mane	Dark brown
Coat	Light brilliant gamboge
Nicknames	Ch (The Periodic Table of My Little Pony)
Relatives	Igneous Rock Pie (future father-in-law) Cloudy Quartz (future mother-in-law) Limestone Pie (future sister-in-law) Maud Pie (future sister-in-law) Marble Pie (future sister-in-law) Pinkie Pie (future wife) Li’l Cheese (future son) Granny Pie (future grandmother-in-law) Feldspar Granite Pie (future grandfather-in-law) Nana Pinkie (future nana-in-law) Pizza Pie (future sister-in-law) [note 1]
Cutie mark
Voice	«Weird Al» Yankovic (English) Damien Locqueneux (European French) [1] Nico Sablik (German) Gilan Shahaf (Hebrew) Paolo De Santis (Italian) Muhamad Nor Adzlan Nazir (Malaysian) Wojciech Brzeziński (Polish) [2] Fábio Lucindo (Brazilian Portuguese) Alexandru Rusu (Romanian) Carlos Lladó (European Spanish) Evgeniy Waltz (Russian, S4E12) Anton Savenkov (Russian, S9E14) Ricardo Silva (Latin American Spanish) [3]
Singing voice	Fernando Zuben (Brazilian Portuguese) David González (European Spanish)

Cheese Sandwich is a male Earth pony and the self-titled «super duper party pony» who first appears in the season four episode Pinkie Pride. He has since appeared in later episodes, IDW comics, and other media. In the series finale The Last Problem, he is Pinkie Pie’s husband years in the future.

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Development, production, and design

Much of Cheese Sandwich’s personality and appearance is based on his English voice performer: comedian and musician «Weird Al» Yankovic.

«Weird Al» Yankovic stated in a reddit AMA on July 15, 2014 that he «would be more than happy to bring Cheese Sandwich back to Equestria if that’s what the[ writers] want!» [4] Show writer Nick Confalone stated in a Twitter conversation on June 26, 2015 that he would want Al back. [5]

In mid-May 2015, IDW’s Bobby Curnow stated regarding My Little Pony: Friends Forever: «I think characters like Cheese and Coco are ripe for FF. neither have been pitched though, if I recall correctly.» [6]

Depiction in the series

Season four

Cheese Sandwich in Pinkie Pride.

Cheese Sandwich makes his debut as the featured guest character in Pinkie Pride. He is first shown on the outskirts of Appleloosa, having just thrown a party for the ponies and buffalo. As he leaves, his Cheesy Sense points him in the direction of Ponyville.

When Cheese appears before Pinkie Pie and her friends, he introduces himself as the premiere party planner in all of Equestria. As his introductory song begins, he takes on a more excitable off-the-wall persona, playing the accordion and singing that he had wanted to be a party planner since he was a colt. At this point, he takes the reins of Pinkie Pie’s party plans for Rainbow Dash and puts together a large birthday bash.

Later, when Pinkie feels her position as premiere party pony is threatened and challenges Cheese Sandwich to a goof off, Cheese accepts. During The Goof Off, Cheese displays an even greater inclination for bizarre behavior, singing a polka version of Pinkie’s Smile Song and having his own, much larger party cannon. Pinkie Pie, realizing that Rainbow Dash isn’t having fun, concedes the goof off to Cheese.

Cheese Sandwich later approaches Pinkie and tells her he never meant to take her place in Ponyville. He confesses that he was actually extremely shy as a colt, and he didn’t realize his dream until he left his home and stumbled into Ponyville during a party thrown by the filly Pinkie Pie, which led to him earning his cutie mark. Having reached an understanding, Cheese Sandwich and Pinkie Pie team up to make Rainbow Dash’s birthday party memorable.

Cheese Sandwich seeing the rainbow.

Before he leaves Ponyville, Cheese gives his rubber chicken, Boneless, which he originally acquired in Ponyville at Pinkie’s party, to Pinkie Pie and sets out with a second rubber chicken, Boneless Two.

During Equestria Games, Cheese is barely seen in the audience as Spike attempts to light the torch.

Season six

In Flutter Brutter, when asked to guess who was at Fluttershy’s parents’ house for lunch, Cheese Sandwich is one of Pinkie Pie’s incorrect guesses.

Season seven

Cheese Sandwich is mentioned by Pinkie in Fame and Misfortune as she reads the Friendship Journal.

Season nine

In The Last Laugh, Cheese Sandwich invites Pinkie Pie to visit the Amusement Factory he opened. Once Pinkie arrives, Cheese reveals that he lost his ability to laugh some time after opening the factory and needs her help to recover it. Despite Pinkie’s best efforts, she is unable to make Cheese laugh, and he sadly admits defeat. However, Pinkie realizes that Cheese actually needs to make others laugh, and after Cheese inadvertently causes some of his factory workers to laugh, he rediscovers the joy of bringing laughter to ponies directly instead of through a factory. After making his straight-faced vice-president Sans Smirk laugh, Cheese decides to return to his former life as a traveling party pony, leaving the factory in Sans’ hooves.

In The Last Problem, Cheese Sandwich appears in future Ponyville during The Magic of Friendship Grows. Here, he is married to Pinkie Pie and has a son named Li’l Cheese. The younger Cheese appears among a group of characters near the end of the song.

Clip show

Cheese gets mentioned by Pinkie in reused footage of her explaining her adventure to Cheese’s Laugh Factory from The Last Laugh in Cakes for the Memories.

Depiction in My Little Pony The Movie

Cheese makes a brief non-speaking appearance during We Got This Together in My Little Pony The Movie.

Other depictions

IDW comics

Cheese Sandwich is featured on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #22’s Hot Topic cover. He also appears on My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #9 page 2 as an attendant of Apple Con 45. On My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #21 page 4, he appears in Ponyville suffering from a mysterious illness. In My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #34, «Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich get trapped in a magical house that loves to party!» [7] Of My Little Pony Annual 2017, he appears on the cover and is mentioned by Rainbow Dash on chapter 1 page 1, and is the focus of chapter 2.

In My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #94, Cheese Sandwich appears when Twilight summons him to help Pinkie plan the upcoming Festival of the Two Sisters. During this time, he and Pinkie struggle with their feelings for each other, then discover that some force has robbed Canterlot of all sound. In Issue #95, the cause of this phenomenon is determined to be a magical moss called Muffletta, and Pinkie and Cheese discover genuine laughter cancels its effects. Together, they succeed in destroying the overgrown Muffletta and bringing sound back to Canterlot. Afterwards, he and Pinkie agree that their laughter sounds better together.

In My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #99, Cheese is called in by Pinkie to organize a farewell party for her sister Marble, as Pinkie is struggling with her feelings over Marble departing for college. The two work together to give Marble a grand send-off, and Cheese finds himself having fun with other Pie family members.

Chapter books

Cheese is mentioned by Pinkie Pie in Discord and the Ponyville Players Dramarama after Discord says «The cheese stands alone,» and Pinkie thinks he’s in the theater. He also appears in the chapter book Beyond Equestria: Pinkie Pie Steps Up as one of the planners for Manehattan’s Pony Popstravaganza.

Baby Flurry Heart’s Heartfelt Scrapbook

Cheese Sandwich appears in a photograph in All About Alicorns, and in a photograph in The Magic of Friendship.

Rarity’s Peek Behind the Boutique

Cheese Sandwich appears in episode 1, «Fashion Do’s and Don’ts».

My Little Pony (mobile game)

Cheese Sandwich is a playable character in Gameloft’s mobile game. [8] [9] His in-game description states, «Whether it’s a masquerade ball or a ball of mascarpone, Cheese Sandwich is the party-planning pony for the job!»

The Elements of Harmony Vol. II guidebook

CHEESE SANDWICH is a superduper party pony (his words), and gives Pinkie Pie a run for her party-planning money. He even has a bigger party cannon than Pinkie, and once won a «goof-off» with her. Cheese Sandwich has some seriously cheesy skills.

Personality

When initially introduced, Cheese Sandwich has a rather serious demeanor, dressing in a cowboy hat and poncho. At first, his comedic side is only hinted by a rubber chicken wearing a bowler hat, which he carries on a saddle and calls Boneless. He speaks in a rather serious tone reminiscent of Clint Eastwood and other spaghetti western heroes.

Working together with Pinkie Pie.

Later, he reveals his true excitable personality. He also shares many traits with Pinkie Pie: he enjoys acting out and turning a party into a grand performance. He loves to sing and can play the accordion, and he possesses a «Cheesy Sense» that, similar to Pinkie’s Pinkie Sense, lets him know when parties are in the middle of being planned.

Toward the end of his debut episode, Cheese Sandwich is shown to hold Pinkie Pie in high regard, wanting to impress her with his skills as a party planner because of the impact she had on his life.

His cutie mark mirrors his love for cheese and accordions, which he frequently uses for his parties.

As shown in The Last Laugh, Cheese Sandwich loses his ability to laugh if he is unable to see himself spread joy to others.

Merchandise

A mini-figure toy of Cheese Sandwich was leaked prior to its release. The toy was released as part of the eleventh wave of mystery pack toys and collector cards. The card states that «CHEESE SANDWICH likes making lunch for his friends!»

Enterplay trading card series 3 card #F62 states that «When Cheese Sandwich moseys into town, everypony’s in for one epic party! This here cheesy guy is the only pony who can compete with Pinkie Pie for the title of best super-duper party pony ever. He holds the record for throwing the biggest parties in 27 towns across Equestria, including the infamous Cheesapalooza polka party in the city of Albuquercolt! Cheese Sandwich travels far and wide, using his Cheesy Sense to guide him—if there’s a party in need, there he’ll be.» In the Enterplay collectible card game’s expansion sets, Canterlot Nights #40 R and #ƒ19 cards of Cheese Sandwich, Canterlot Nights #102 R card Critter Stampede, Canterlot Nights #141 U card Joe’s Doughnut Shop, The Crystal Games #35 R and #ƒ16 cards of Cheese Sandwich, The Crystal Games #125 C card of Boneless, and The Crystal Games #138 R card Party Bomb list quotes, Absolute Discord #7 C and #ƒ5 cards of Cheese Sandwich state that «From Appleloosa to Ponyville, from chilly Yakyakistan to the desolate San Palomino Desert, if there’s a party in need then that’s where Cheese will be!», and Absolute Discord #106 U card Photo Op lists the quote «Now, say Cheese Sandwich!»

Cheese Sandwich appears on the WeLoveFine T-shirts «Cheese Sandwich Vs Pinkie Pie», «Super Duper Party Pony», «Cheese In Your Knees!», and «The Periodic Table of My Little Pony», the first of which was released in January 2014, before the release of the episode Pinkie Pride but after the release of the first Pinkie Pride preview clip featuring him.

Cheese Sandwich is shown on Acidfree’s first art print. [10]

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The Long, Storied Controversy Over Cheese on Apple Pie

Some love it. Some hate it. Some have no idea what it is.

Apple pie is not an American invention. In the 14th century, farmers in England began wrapping apples into inedible containers known as “coffins,” a pie prototype. Only in 1697 did the concept reach the United States—through European immigrants.

But the USA has laid claim to the iconic dessert, a process that was crystalized when a 1902 New York Times article lambasted an English writer for complaining that eating apple pie more than two times per week was excessive:

[Twice a week] is utterly insufficient, as anyone who knows the secret of our strength as a nation and the foundation of our industrial supremacy must admit. Pie is the American synonym of prosperity, and its varying contents the calendar of changing seasons. Pie is the food of the heroic. No pie-eating people can be permanently vanquished.

But even in the United States, apple pie has its regional variants—and, inevitably, detractors of those variants.

Perhaps the biggest controversy? Cheese.

This is going to completely shock a number of apple pie fans and elicit an “of course” from a whole slew of others, but: a lot of people put cheese, specifically a sharp cheddar, on their apple pies.

Apple pie with cheddar cheese and bacon bits. Kisså/CC BY-ND 2.0

The tradition has silently polarized the nation, with some, like author John T. Edge, confessing, “at lunch or dinner I thought a wedge of pie was naked if it wasn’t crowned with a preternaturally orange slice of cheddar.” The poet Eugene Field (1850-1895) once wrote, “But I, when I undress me / Each night, upon my knees / Will ask the Lord to bless me / With apple pie and cheese.” There is even a saying, popular in many circles: “An apple pie without the cheese is like a kiss without the squeeze.”

Meanwhile, another faction has lamented, “Why would anyone choose to crown their apple pie with stinky old cheese when they could have a scoop of ice cream melting on top?” In 1998, a reader of the Los Angeles Times complained that “[a column] about cheese and apple pie left me feeling like I live in the twilight zone… I have so far never encountered American friends or acquaintances who even want to try this.” When asked whether he ate pie with cheese in his home state of Mississippi, one chef said: “Oh, God no! They’d put you away in a home.”

Proponents of apple pies with cheese defend their choice by pointing to the contrast between “the sweetness of the pie” and “the sharpness and saltiness” of the cheeses, saying it works the same way as chocolate-covered pretzels.

There are many ways to prepare it: some people bake cheese into the pie crust, some slip it into the apple filling, some melt it on top of the pie, and others leave it on the side of the plate. Though in the United States, cheddar is the favorite, many types of cheese can be used. Recipes may call for Wensleydale, Roquefort, gouda, parmesan, or Gruyère. The ABC show Pushing Daisies featured an iconic scene in which Ned, owner of a restaurant called The Pie Hole, prepares an apple pie—with Gruyère in its crust—for his girlfriend’s aunts.

More cheese, please. jeffreyw/CC BY 2.0

Though fans of apple pie with cheese exist everywhere, they seem to be concentrated in the American Midwest, New England, and parts of Canada and Britain. Vermont even has a 1999 law on the books requiring that proprietors of apple pie make a “good faith effort” to serve it with ice cream, cold milk, or “a slice of cheddar cheese weighing a minimum of 1/2 ounce.” In some circles, apple pie with cheese is tradition.

So where does this come from? And why, especially in the United States, do some people expect apple pie with cheese, while others have never even heard of the concept?

The idea appears to have originated in England, where all sorts of fillings were added to pies. At some point, the 17th-century trend of adding dairy-based sauces to pies morphed into a tradition of topping them with cheese. For instance, in Yorkshire, apple pie was served with Wensleydale, which is likely how the phrase “an apple pie without the cheese is like a kiss without the squeeze” began. (Though it is in dispute whether the phrase originated in the United States or England, it caught on in both places in the 19th century, suggesting a kind of cultural collaboration between the two.)

According to The Mystic Seaport Cookbook: 350 Years of New England Cooking, New England settlers brought the idea behind these Yorkshire pies with them, but instead of Wensleydale, they began using cheddar.

Why cheese? At the time, apple pies were quite bland: prior to the creation of the Red Delicious apple in the late 19th century, few apples tasted sweet. Cheese offered a readily available supplement. After all, in an era before the ubiquity of freezers, the most popular pie topping today—ice cream—was out of the question.

Is this apple pie without cheese lonely or just right? Iliana Mestari/Getty Images

Places in the United States with heavy concentrations of dairy farms therefore became centers of the cheese-on-apple-pie craze. These included New England, Pennsylvania, and especially the Midwest—largely the regions where cheddar cheese apple pie is popular today.

Regions that pioneered pie a la mode, meanwhile, largely lost the trend: New York City, for instance, has served the dish since the 1890s, and today generally falls into the “pie with ice cream” camp.

During the 20th century, ice cream gradually usurped cheese as the most popular pie topping in the United States at large. But the cheese-on-pie love has endured. So beware: Whether you serve your apple pie with cheese or without it, you might get some funny looks.

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