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Pie(s) Debate about the best dessert ever
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Posted 30 January 2009 - 04:13 PM
So as far as dessert pies go, there are actually only two kinds: fruit and custard.
Custard based pies are the ones with creamy, egg-based filling: pecan, lemon meringue, coconut, chocolate cream, etc.
Fruit based pies are the ones with the chunky, fruit filling: apple, rhubarb, strawberry, cherry, etc.
I'm partial to custard based pies, with pecan at the top of the list (the day I remember as my biggest childhood disillusionment was not when I found out Santa wasn't real, but rather when I called up my grandmother for her pecan pie recipe and was told, "It's on the back of the Karo syrup bottle."). Next up is my boyfriend's apple pie; it is the best apple pie I've ever had and making one together was our first date (but only HIS apple pie; I'm not generally a fruit pie person). Then chocolate cream, and then lemon meringue. I'm not partial to rhubarb, though the man-thing makes a mean strawberry rhubarb pie. Maybe it's growing up in the South, where rhubarb isn't a thing because it's too hot to grow here.
I can't speak to meat pies, as I've been a vegetarian all my life.
All that said, I will take creme brulee over pie any day of the week.
Custard based pies are the ones with creamy, egg-based filling: pecan, lemon meringue, coconut, chocolate cream, etc.
Fruit based pies are the ones with the chunky, fruit filling: apple, rhubarb, strawberry, cherry, etc.
I'm partial to custard based pies, with pecan at the top of the list (the day I remember as my biggest childhood disillusionment was not when I found out Santa wasn't real, but rather when I called up my grandmother for her pecan pie recipe and was told, "It's on the back of the Karo syrup bottle."). Next up is my boyfriend's apple pie; it is the best apple pie I've ever had and making one together was our first date (but only HIS apple pie; I'm not generally a fruit pie person). Then chocolate cream, and then lemon meringue. I'm not partial to rhubarb, though the man-thing makes a mean strawberry rhubarb pie. Maybe it's growing up in the South, where rhubarb isn't a thing because it's too hot to grow here.
I can't speak to meat pies, as I've been a vegetarian all my life.
All that said, I will take creme brulee over pie any day of the week.
This post has been edited by Epiph: 30 January 2009 - 04:15 PM
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Posted 30 January 2009 - 04:44 PM
The ultimate pie experience can be found in mincemeat! No, not that fake sugary vomit out of a jar, but true minced MEAT, well spiced. MMMMM. Hot cherry pie with chocolate ice cream runs a close second. All else is cheap imitation.
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Posted 01 February 2009 - 03:04 AM
Well for me you can't beat a good pecan pie. Honorable mentions are cherry, apple and pumpkin. Though I do love shepards pie, but generally don't associate meat with pie.
In any case, I've found that not liking pie has a direct correlation with communism.
In any case, I've found that not liking pie has a direct correlation with communism.
QUOTE (Stalker @ Jan 23 2009, 01:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
So last night I was walking downtown for some pizza at like 1am with some friends of mine,
and someone said, "I'm so hungry I could eat a whole pizza."
I said, "I bet I could eat 100 pizzas," and no one understood me. I was sad.
and someone said, "I'm so hungry I could eat a whole pizza."
I said, "I bet I could eat 100 pizzas," and no one understood me. I was sad.
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Posted 01 February 2009 - 06:14 AM
Are the people that are posting on this particular thread with gusto and glee possibly overweight?!?
I like apple pie, with ice cream, with custard, with cream, whipped cream, on its own...
I like apple pie, with ice cream, with custard, with cream, whipped cream, on its own...
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Posted 01 February 2009 - 06:17 PM
Hello, soldiers, look at your mage, now back to me, now back at your mage, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me, but if he stopped being an unascended mortal and switched to Sole Spice, he could smell like he’s me. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re in a warren with the High Mage your cadre mage could smell like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s an acorn with two gates to that realm you love. Look again, the acorn is now otataral. Anything is possible when your mage smells like Sole Spice and not a Bole brother. I’m on a quorl.
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Posted 01 February 2009 - 08:01 PM
Cheese and meat of pretty much any kind is ftw...also some interesting things can be made with sweet-hot sauces and meat...
If you necessarly need to eat fruite pies of any kind blueberry or rubarb is eatable and apple done right it heavenly...
But then in my experience US, Swedish and French people (and I guess there are other variations...I haven't encountered) can call stuff that has no resemblance to each other pies...so lots of people probably are speaking about very diffrent things
If you necessarly need to eat fruite pies of any kind blueberry or rubarb is eatable and apple done right it heavenly...
But then in my experience US, Swedish and French people (and I guess there are other variations...I haven't encountered) can call stuff that has no resemblance to each other pies...so lots of people probably are speaking about very diffrent things
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Posted 01 February 2009 - 08:05 PM
I like bannana cream pie. It's good stuff.
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Posted 01 February 2009 - 08:24 PM
Sparkimus, on Jan 31 2009, 10:04 PM, said:
In any case, I've found that not liking pie has a direct correlation with communism.
Hey! I resemble that remark.
Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....
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Posted 02 February 2009 - 05:55 AM
Pies are disgusting...cake is delicious. I mean, look:
compared to this
compared to this
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Posted 02 February 2009 - 03:06 PM
CAKE IS FOR PUSSIES
PIE IS DELICIOUS
BAN THE LAST TWO POSTERS NOW BEFORE THEIR DISEASE OF DISPIELIEF SPREADS
PIE IS DELICIOUS
BAN THE LAST TWO POSTERS NOW BEFORE THEIR DISEASE OF DISPIELIEF SPREADS
Hello, soldiers, look at your mage, now back to me, now back at your mage, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me, but if he stopped being an unascended mortal and switched to Sole Spice, he could smell like he’s me. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re in a warren with the High Mage your cadre mage could smell like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s an acorn with two gates to that realm you love. Look again, the acorn is now otataral. Anything is possible when your mage smells like Sole Spice and not a Bole brother. I’m on a quorl.
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Posted 02 February 2009 - 04:15 PM
Depends on the pie. Depends on the cake.
That lard frosting abomination that AIJ posted does NOT look like good cake. Of course, that blurry thing that looks nothing like a pie doesn't look good either.
A true battle royale would be my mother's rhubarb pie vs. her rum cake. But that's the only cake I can think of that can stand up to her 3 best pies.
Therefore, Pie = Win.
That lard frosting abomination that AIJ posted does NOT look like good cake. Of course, that blurry thing that looks nothing like a pie doesn't look good either.
A true battle royale would be my mother's rhubarb pie vs. her rum cake. But that's the only cake I can think of that can stand up to her 3 best pies.
Therefore, Pie = Win.
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Posted 03 February 2009 - 06:35 AM
Illuyankas, on Feb 3 2009, 02:06 AM, said:
CAKE IS FOR PUSSIES
PIE IS DELICIOUS
BAN THE LAST TWO POSTERS NOW BEFORE THEIR DISEASE OF DISPIELIEF SPREADS
PIE IS DELICIOUS
BAN THE LAST TWO POSTERS NOW BEFORE THEIR DISEASE OF DISPIELIEF SPREADS
I DISAGREE
PIE IS FOR CHEAP-ASSES, LITTLE KIDS AND REDNECKS
INFIDELS
@Shinrei
I suppose it wasn't a great one...but cake is still better!
Suck it Errant!
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QUOTE (KeithF @ Jun 30 2009, 09:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
It has been proven beyond all reasonable doubt that the most powerful force on Wu is a bunch of messed-up Malazans with Moranth munitions.
