Posted on 02/21/2023 7:22:06 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
FORT MYERS, Fla. — What constitutes the perfect dessert? Is it a balance of sweetness and tartness? Is it something that reminds you of childhood?
Could it be all of the above?
While the strawberry shortcake might be the “official dessert” of Florida, there’s no denying the true king of the “sweet life” in The Sunshine State: The Key Lime Pie.
There’s a long and contested history regarding the citrus-inspired treat. Ship salvagers and Key West cooks all lay claim to the original recipe containing a filling of condensed milk, egg yolks, and key lime juice baked into a graham cracker crust until tenderly set. Whether you prefer a meringue or whipped cream topping, Key Lime Pie is a staple on the Floridian menu.
THE WAR OF PIE
That’s why one Fort Myers man went out of his way to obtain his favorite post-dinner treat for his mother’s birthday. He took the custard creation and secured it in his refrigerator, which would remain until the big day.
He even warned another person in the residence, David Powelson, to please leave his mother’s edible present unsullied in the ice box.
But Powelson, drawn to the dessert reminiscent of a cartoon character, was losing all control to a pie in waiting.
On February 15th, around 5:00 p.m., the man slipped into a daze in his recliner when something caught his eye. Powelson wasn’t just eating his prized possession but was making sure there wasn’t even a crumb left behind.
“Why didn’t you just save me one piece?” The dejected man extolled to Powelson.
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Ten paragraphs in the excerpt and no reason for the arrest per the thread title.
The pie-eater supposedly assaulted his angry roommate by dumping 2 large glasses of water on him to cool him off.
The pie-eater is lucky he didn’t get his ass kicked, he would have deserved it.
Yep. Eating somebody else’s key lime pie is undoubtedly like eating somebody else’s pecan pie or king cake down here.
Death penalty offense.
OP chose to post such without the meat of the story that matches the title.
Your choice of what you excerpted.
Will look at the recipe, which if it is from the olden days of the Florida Keys— the whipped eggs are “cooked” quite literally by the extra tart Key lime juice which is blended into the pie custard. The juice cooks the eggs. The pie was a way to use up eggs which were going to go bad in the un-refrigerated days of yore.
Later a meringue of whipped sugared egg whites was layered on top and the pie browned in an over. Light browned whipped egg whites on top of the lime juice cooked whole eggs. There was never any green food coloring added. The pie came out as a light yellow green... tart and delicious in what was later a pressed graham cracker crust.
The measure of how real the pie was— was it was so tart you had to have a lot of milk to drink with it. Fantastic dessert, all Florida.
Things are getting weird when you are better off having dessert with a ticked off Florida Man than dinner with a Mississippi Woman.
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Sounds like a Babylon Bee headline.
Yep. I tend to post from the beginning. It’s up to you to click and get the rest.
The key lime pie down in that neck of the woods is definitely good, no doubt about it, but there is this one place that makes key lime coconut cake ... (insert pic of Homer Simpson drooling)
Pass.
Ft. Meyers Man. The Florida Man of Florida Men!
I love key lime pie but haven’t had any in a long time.
You broke the FL rule:
“Florida Man.....”
My ex was born and raised in the Keys and we had a vacation house there. He drove me up and down the Keys looking for a REAL Key Lime Pie.. At restaurant after restaurant, we’d order it and every single time he’d say, “That’s not it” no matter how delicious it was.
No frills, no whipped cream, etc. The real Key Lime Pie was seasonal, no imported limes. No fancy crusts.
Hard to believe, but Trader Joe has good Key Lime Pies in the freezer. As close as you can get, I think. A seasonal thing, they really are using Key Limes.
It’s in the keywords.
Used to have the real thing with real Keylime juice... as we had 4 or 5 highly productive key lime trees... long ago.
Still have the Key West Garden Club cookbook from 1901— even has sea turtle soup- from back when they were plentiful and sold from live turtle kraals at the docks.
And, we still call the (Hemingway) house by its correct name— the Stephen Mallory house. Those native born Conchs who are still alive with us.
Seems one can only find key limes in Southern grocery stores and a lot of them are from Mexico or maybe the Bahamas where they still grow them. Fantastic difficult to describe real lime taste also quite good with gin and tonic, or rum and Coke!
No one but Yankees ever but meringue on a Key Lime pie. Jumping Jehosephat! The next thing you know somebody will want to put whipped cream on one. Meringue on a Key Lime pie - defeats the whole purpose of a tart pie.
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