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Default REC: Key Lime Pie

Becca wrote:
> On 6/16/2010 8:20 PM, Janet Wilder wrote:
>> sf wrote:
>>> On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:33:52 -0500, wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm gonna ask. I always wondered wny it's called KEY Lime pie.
>>>> Why "KEY"? I dont see any car keys in the recipe....
>>>
>>> Ever heard of the Florida Keys?
>>>

>>
>> Except that the "key Limes" we get come from Mexico. There aren't
>> enough lime trees in the Keys to produce an export crop.
>>

>
> Those tiny little limes you get in the RGV are a great price, too.


This week a whole net bag of them is $1.77


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