Talk:Pie à la Mode

Cambridge Hotel today

In an episode of the TV program Hotel Hell, Gordon Ramsey visits Cambridge Hotel and reveals the shoddy quality of the apple pie à la mode made there today. Very entertaining and interesting. The hotel has since been foreclosed and was to be auctioned in June, 2012. (Refs: Post-Star, Times-Union) David Spector (user/talk) 17:00, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Although, to be fair, the show portrayed the post-makeover apple pie a la mode as being positively received.

About the hotel's closing: There's also this Albany Times Union article: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Even-Gordon-Ramsay-can-t-save-Cambridge-Hotel-3633805.php "Even Gordon Ramsay can't save Cambridge Hotel" By Steve Barnes Thursday, June 14, 2012 --Tenebrae (talk) 18:35, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Name story

Is there a more reliable source for this? The article links to a cooking website and a travel guide. They could just be repeating urban legend. Vividonset2 (talk) 23:24, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

See above thread for more details. Urban legend or not, Wikipedia does not judge, only that it has been covered by sources.Camelbinky (talk) 00:49, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

That's factually untrue. Quality of sources definitely plays a part in the composition of an article, see Wikipedia:Verifiability#Questionable_sources. This article is taking a single source (Moon New York State) and quoting it as fact, when it may be presented as tongue in cheek in the original publication. We should either add more sources, or qualify the statements present in this article. Geoff (talk) 04:55, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

The whole thing is nonsensical, imo. There's a claim it was written about in the New York Sun. The Sun's archives are available online, someone should try and find it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.236.208.27 (talk) 21:57, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Why is this whole story written out twice? First it is told as fact, then re-told as dubious rumor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.80.144.132 (talk) 16:04, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Clarification

So Professor James Rawlins was asked the name of the dish by 'another guest'... who had the same surname as he did? So was she his daughter, or niece, or something? Also the name changes from 'Rawlins' to 'Townsend' in the same paragraph, presumably (based on the context) referring to the same individual. At the top, Nicola Rawlins apparently named the dish in England; from the following text, it's claimed she was a fellow guest at the hotel in Cambridge, N.Y. Utterly incomprehensible gibberish. This whole article needs work.

EDIT: Townsend's name was changed to 'Rawlins' for no discernible reason on 13 October 2018; additionally there seem over the years to have been numerous vanity edits to the alleged fellow guest of Townsend at the Cambridge Hotel (inc. 'Mrs Berry Hall' and 'Miss Sinead Franklin-Jones').

Is it any surprise that the section beginning "The legend also states..." is sourced from such... eminent publications as the Sheboygan Press and Lakeland Ledger? Just because some reference to this dessert was made in some trifling publication doesn't mean it's in any way based on provable fact... as, one would think, the whole "legend" nonsense serves amply to indicate.

Origin

Tarte tatin is well known in French culture as an inverse apple pie served with vanilla ice cream. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarte_Tatin — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:1810:4E07:DC00:B8F8:4939:86BB:348D (talk) 20:00, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@2A02:1810:4E07:DC00:B8F8:4939:86BB:348D what's your point? 146.200.132.58 (talk) 12:17, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

What is the dish?

The only description of what the dish is that it is served with ice cream. I believe it is some form of apple pie (from the picture) but it is not clear whether it is just a standard apple pie with ice cream or something different? 82.30.13.75 (talk) 13:30, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

This article is insane

LMAO 2601:14D:4E00:3570:C0A1:393A:A494:6B5F (talk) 03:37, 9 March 2023 (UTC)