Humility: Because Sometimes You Gotta Eat That Pie

1591.702 - 1613.898 Tommy Metz III

And because humble and humble sound so alike, it was actually used as a pun of sorts in the UK by 1830, meaning to eat lower class food or to do something resulting from past regret was to eat humble pie. But then everyone forgot the gross stuff used to be called numbles or umbles in the first place. And so humble pie just became an idiom when no one remembered it was originally a punchline.