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Default Wow, what a pie!


"Puester" > wrote in message
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> Jen wrote:
>> "Puester" > wrote in message
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>>> I was wandering through our local King Soopers (Kroger) over the weekend
>>> and saw pies on sale. We had finished the last of the Thanksgiving
>>> pumpkin pie and thrown out the last of the chocolate bourbon pecan
>>> (ick), promising ourselves NO MORE DESSERTS till Christmas.
>>>
>>> I glanced casually over the display and saw...Marionberry pie! I have
>>> never had marionberry anything, but remember a number of ex-PNW friends
>>> raving about them, so I caved and bought the pie. It was exceptional,
>>> especially with the leftover whipped cream which I had fortunately
>>> forgotten to throw away.

>>
>>
>> I've never heard of marionberries. Do they have another name as well?
>> Maybe us Ozzies know it as something else.
>>
>> Jen

>
>
> I thought I had heard they were a hybrid, and local to the U.S. Pacific
> Northwest but I didn't know much else about them.
>
> Go to:
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> http://www.marionberries.com/home.htm
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> for an explanation.



Just looking at the picture makes my mouth water.

Jen