Vinegar Pie: Poverty, pride, and how union wages changed a family’s table. #bigstonegap #appalachia
My Great Grandmother lived through years when Thanksgiving pies were made with vinegar because lemons were too expensive. When the UMWA came in and raised wages, she bought lemons for the first time. The story became family history.
The vinegar pie is an old Appalachian answer to a simple problem. Families wanted a dessert that tasted like a lemon pie, but lemons were rare and expensive.
