On Wednesday, November 27, 2019 at 11:51:55 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2019-11-27 11:08 a.m., Gary wrote:
>
> > As far as filling, I love a plain vanilla cheesecake filling.
> > I've always used the recipe on the back of the
> > Philadelphia Cream Cheese blocks. It's a good one.
> >
> > Never any fruit or toppings added.
>
>
> I saw the strangest thing in a grocery store on the weekend. They had
> those ready made graham cracker pie shells on a shelf and some woman was
> examining them as if her life depended on her choice. I don't know what
> sorts of defects she was looking for, but I did notice that she was
> picking them up by the rim with one hand. Being flimsy aluminum pans
> with the crust right up to the flange rim, I imagine that holding them
> like that could easily damage the pie shell. The pans were in two piles,
> about 10 high and she checked out every single one of them before
> settling on two of them which had been somewhere in the middle of the
> piles. I have no idea what she was looking for, other than one that had
> not been damaged by someone picking them up like that.

Those things are like eating sand anyway. For the miniscule effort
of making my own from graham crackers, butter, and sugar, I can eat
something that's 100 times better.

Cindy Hamilton