English

baseball bat, American flag, apple pie

Noun

motherhood and apple pie

1. Alternative form of mom and apple pie
   • 1974, Howard Cosell, Like it is, page 131:

     Why are you so critical of baseball? ... something pure and noble like the American flag, motherhood and apple pie.

   • 2003, Deborah Lynn Guber, The grassroots of a green revolution: polling America on the environment, page 1:

     As one newspaper columnist wryly observed, "Motherhood and apple pie, baseball and the flag — all may be subjects of controversy. But the environment is almost beyond debate these days.

   • 2008 November 15, “G-20 Summit: Little Action, Many Promises”, in BusinessWeek:

     ... those are hardly ideas anyone would disagree with: "It's motherhood and apple pie, or whatever the European equivalent of motherhood and apple pie is."