apple-pie

[ ap-uh l-pahy ]

/ ˈæp əlˌpaɪ /

pertaining to or embodying traditional American values: apple-pie virtues; an apple-pie issue that no politician could vote against.

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Cancer governs the fourth House of patriotism, and American actors of the sign project an apple-pie image.
Horoscopes July 3-9, 2011|Starsky + Cox|July 2, 2011|DAILY BEAST
All was in the apple-pie order in which I had left her pretty, luxurious room.
Miss Million's Maid|Bertha Ruck
About a month after this, I was busy making an apple-pie in the kitchen.
Roughing it in the Bush|Susanna Moodie
Fortunately, however, I have a very good answer to this apple-pie bed charge.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, October 6, 1920|Various

Everything below decks was in apple-pie order and the animals all seemed glad to be once more back in the Ark.
The Cruise of the Noah's Ark|David Cory
Our dressmaking parlors were in full swing and in apple-pie order.
Sixty Years of California Song|Margaret Blake-Alverson