Top Four 35: Pies 🥧
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yeah two six five three five eight nine
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seven nine three two three four six wow
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you're a nerd I think that's yeah Wow
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are you just realizing this now is this
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is this new no no it's not it's not it's
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definitely not new but I didn't I I I
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thought I had the most digits in my
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brain and it was hardly any okay
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honestly compared to other nerds I'm
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hardly any oh yeah that's like nerds can
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go pretty far I just thought I would win
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digits over you but I don't have any at
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all I need to turn around and start
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memorizing yeah fail we are talking
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about pi not on pi day not it's not pi
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day which i think is kind of BS e yeah I
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don't want to pile on the pi day right
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with my PI urban mode
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we're being innovators our innovators
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anyway so yeah we're gonna talk about
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pies because this is the pie season it's
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really in his pies I mean you can make
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pies pretty much any time you want but
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it does feel like they are you know
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along with other indulgent and dessert
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foods it seems like pies are seemingly
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more permitted and more socially
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acceptable and and for some reason you
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consider them like oh I have to ignore
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all health and reasonability for this
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month or whatever piece of pie right
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exactly and pie for breakfast after you
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know because you eat leftover pie
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obviously and but I always find it
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strange that holiday season is for pies
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but most fruit pies are best in the
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summertime because you have the fruit
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available yeah that is kind of weird
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isn't it right but like you I think of
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pie like making pie for the holiday but
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I guess like you make apple pie and
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pumpkin pie and like holiday pie anyway
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so yeah we're talking about pies we're
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go we're not eating them right now we
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don't have 14 pies in front of us that
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we're gonna taste we're gonna test all
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these pies actually but for one of these
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it's kind of oh but one of your
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birthday's I had that key lime pie party
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yeah and we have all different key lime
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pies and if anyone was like what should
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I bring I'm like bring a key lime pie
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and so we had a lot of different key
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lime pies to try that was awesome that
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was a really fun party I like a good
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turns out my key lime pie was the best
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pie who knew who knew we knew Arthur
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Arthur knew anyway so I thought it was
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actually I had some trouble deciding
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what counts as a pie so everything
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counts as a pie that's kind of yeah
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that's I was gonna lean towards a more
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permissive attitude here well that's
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what wikipedia says you should see some
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of the things they were counting
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empanadas as pies wells okay so if you
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go into finishin it's like a hand pie
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suggestions like I think the British
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definition of pie is much more broad
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than the American definition of pie no
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because we call those things hand pies
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also sort of but if you ask most
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Americans yeah I think most Americans
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don't know what mincemeat pies or hand
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pies are are you kidding anyone who is a
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relative of an immigrant of some sort
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has definitely heard of various I guess
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that fringe pies you would say because I
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don't know my grandpa is made meat pies
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yeah they were like Italian meat pies
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they waited thirty forty pounds I don't
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know yeah you just like put like a whole
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bunch of entire animals in a tray yeah
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and like but all the salted meat animals
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from the Italian you know butcher shop
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so you have various salted meat log
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animals that go in there exactly but
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yeah he made those things that's like a
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meat pie yeah yep all right I guess we
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should dive into this we should so do
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you have any honorable mentions I do
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actually I have two okay
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I do too all right well but it's a whole
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category well that's fair because yeah
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III think the definition of pie here is
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so broad and and on that note my first
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honor mention is chicken pot pie whoa
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honorable mention yeah because if I want
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pie chances are I don't want chicken pot
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pie however I do want chicken pot pie
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well if you want dessert you don't want
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that however can you just buy again
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because I really like that when you save
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up chicken pot pie is really good
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the best day yes I love my needs I don't
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know why I think that the word potpies
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and Marco refuses to say it for me I
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don't know why because he's holding yeah
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because you care so much about this one
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weird word for some reason anyway say it
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so I think chicken pot pies are amazing
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I we've had a couple other kinds of pot
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pies but none of them are as good I
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think if you're going to talk about pot
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pies chicken pot pies or the pot pies to
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be pot pies so like that's day
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those are great and they definitely
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deserve a list a spot in any pie list
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even though they are not desserts and
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when Americans think pie they think
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dessert but I think you can't you can't
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ignore the wonderful wonderful
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everything about chicken pot pie chicken
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pot pie is my number two I'm so sorry I
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was so worried that you would get mad
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that I included it yeah it's a pie it's
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it's pot pie like it's a pie it looks
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like a pie it tastes like a pie it has
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crust that's made exactly the same as a
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sweet pie and we didn't say this is like
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top for sweet pies top for savory pies
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top for pies like period like three
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point one four point three point period
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that's how most decimals have two
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periods alright so what is your first
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honorable mention my honorable mention I
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only have one it's a whole category it
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is the quiche that's why you know I
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didn't think about quiches it is kind of
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like an egg pie right yeah I crust right
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and it has there are other various
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breakfast tea egg concoctions that do
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not have a crust and I would not
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consider those pies but a quiche is on
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is on the border and we have a table is
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not a pie frittata in the rest yeah so
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the only reason that quiche is a
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honorable mention and not on the list is
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because it doesn't have pie in the name
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like a pot pie so I felt a little bit
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strange putting it into my pie top for
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well but I think if you look at the
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construction in the ingredient I mean
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they're like the ingredients are not
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that different from like a custard pie
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you have milk cream butter and some
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flavoring things in it like that's
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cheese the eggs and eggs do yeah and
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like so you have eggs yeah yes but like
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that that's many of the same ingredient
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as a custard pie that you know
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differently prepared and differently
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seasoned probably and with different
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flavor profiles that you're going for
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but a quiche is like a well-made quiche
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is I would I would call that a pie by
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any reasonable definition quiche is one
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of my favorite breakfasts or meals in
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general I just love a good quiche it's
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quite good carmelize onion
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oh yeah yeah what goat cheese that's a
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very subtle pick mm-hmm all right my my
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other on would mention is oreo
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cheesecake wait is cheesecake up hi-c I
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thought about this but I think I don't
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think no I don't think cheesecakes or
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pies well so why not I'm curious okay
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cuz it doesn't have a crust her toes
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no it doesn't it doesn't have that kind
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of crust it doesn't have like a I've
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constructed this crust it's like crumbly
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cookie crust that is packed down it's
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not up the sides usually you're right it
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isn't usually up the sides however I
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would say that the that the crust being
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packed down made of like crumbly stuff
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there's lots of pies where they have
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graham crackers or Oreos as as a crushed
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down crust like I don't think it needs
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to be a baked pastry crust for it to
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count as a pie but a graham cracker
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crust is a baked pastry crust if you do
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it right well you can actually bake the
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graham cracker well but and and
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cheesecakes can have that too and
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sometimes do but riddle me this mm-hmm a
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cheesecake it's more of a the crust is
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more of a layer of the Cheesecake that's
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true and also the name says cake
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well quiche doesn't say pie but we
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classified it as well that's why it's an
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honorable mention and this is not
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mention make it all the way I need just
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want to make sure that you don't have
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any cheesecake sneaking into your top
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four pies because I do not think that
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cheesecake is a pie I don't have any
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cheesecake in my top four but that's
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only because I don't like them that much
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I like them a little bit now there are
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cheese pies I'm aware of and they're
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very different than a cheesecake so you
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are allowed to pick cheese pie yes you
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are not allowed to pick cheesecake
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because I only in classify this as an
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honorable mention I'm gonna let you have
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this one but I think the the actual
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difference between many types of pies
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and cheesecakes is not that big
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a difference to the point where I think
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cheesecakes should be classified as pies
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even though the rest of the world will
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you know we'll get you down for that
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similar to how Tomatoes are clearly
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fruits even though the entire world says
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they're vegetables they are by most
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reasonable metrics fruits yes of course
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so you don't taste delicious like fruit
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they're pretty good and yeah but it's
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biting into a tomato that's that's rough
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if it's a bad tomato just like like a
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picket hold a good tomato like an apple
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all right and not to mention anyway all
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right I just need to I need you to say
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this what these cakes are not pies I
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refuse to agree to this Tim and I will
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also further derail the conversation by
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saying within the category of
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cheesecakes oreo cheesecake is the best
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cheesecake and that includes both the
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oreo bits that are throughout the white
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cheesecake and also the crumbled Oreo
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crust on the bottom see now are you
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talking New York cheesecake or are you
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talking like Italian cheesecake which I
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which is which I don't really know I I'm
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calling an Italian because it's made
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with like the I don't want to say this
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name of this cheese gotta no matter how
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I say it someone hates it yes the games
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that we will so we will call ricotta if
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you have a problem with how to pronounce
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we apologize we know that many people
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have problems with how this is
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pronounced however you all can't agree
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on how it should be pronounced so we're
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gonna go with the one that everyone can
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ricotta even though we are so sorry but
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number four it's pie time you want to go
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first or shall I do you want to do you
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want to finish last go for now okay
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now I'm second-guessing right I wonder
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how many times they say that oh if you
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actually think that quiche might be pie
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I would it look if chicken pot pie
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then I think he should count because
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neither of them are our dessert pies
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they're both savory meal pies but if
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that is you know it's up to you which
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would you rather have would you rather
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have quiche or chicken pot pie or the
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other pies re-enlist my number four that
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I wrote down is peach raspberry that's
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it yeah because you made that ya choice
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right yeah I make peach raspberry pie
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in the end of the summer like when
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peaches are really good and I like the
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little bit of raspberry because it
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brings the tart into the peaches and
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it's really nice do you don't not a lot
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of raspberry just a little bit yeah and
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I really like peach pie because you can
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like sweat the peaches and get the
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juices really goopy and make it kind of
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like a a peach simple syrup and then
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pour it back into the pie so you don't
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have a lot of water because if you do
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that if you don't do that then you have
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like a pretty watery pie but yeah I
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really like the peach raspberry pie that
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I make lattice top for that one it's
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it's you construct it very similarly it
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appears as an apple pie yeah I'm also
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going off of pies I like to make mmm
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yeah and by the way behind this isoh but
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I will TIF is really freaking good at
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making pies like freakishly so
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especially the cool the kind with all
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the cool crust work like apple pie with
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Lilith lattice top and everything so
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that's that definitely plays in here I
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think you should be you're really
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freaking good at pies and it's a great
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because then I get pie and I get good
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pie it's fantastic so I really like
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peach raspberry pie I think that that
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would be my number4 but if quiche counts
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I might bump peach raspberry to my
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honorable mention and bump up quiche but
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again it depends on the meal so I don't
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know like what they're tied fair enough
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yep it wouldn't be topped for if we had
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a top four yes honestly I don't like
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most fruit pies yeah actually I had a
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hard time coming up with four total
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actually because you know I was looking
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I I can't believe looking online to see
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like you know a list of you know
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America's favorite pies whatever just to
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see like am I forgetting anything am I
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missing anything and and there actually
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were not that many that I really had in
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contention here yeah there's like I
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don't really care for blueberry pie
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because I don't like blueberries that
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strongly I find cherry pie to be too
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sweet most of the time I do not care for
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I don't know what else is there there's
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like so many other things every rhubarb
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is a popular one here for strawberries
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that much I came to that realization
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pretty recently yeah I felt like you're
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supposed to like strawberries for so
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long and I was just so indifferent about
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them and now I think I'm done I'm done
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with the lies I think not liking
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strawberries is kind of like not liking
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vanilla like in the sense that like
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there are people out there who don't
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like vanilla but there aren't that many
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strawberry I'm like cry about it right
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but like the whole world kind of assumes
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that certain flavors are universally
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liked vanilla is one of them and I think
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strawberry is one of them too I think
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pretty much everyone assumes that
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everyone likes strawberry yeah but if
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you don't like and I like it so I've
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never felt this but if you don't like
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strawberry it's probably really hard for
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you how do you how does it make you feel
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I don't know the texture is a little off
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I prefer raspberries over strawberries
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any day definitely pick a raspberry or a
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strawberry I find I I do like the flavor
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of rhubarb but I don't like the texture
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of rhubarb so it's really iffy if you're
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gonna get a good rhubarb pie or not
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because if they don't properly cook the
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rhubarb or treat it beforehand it I
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don't know how to do it I've never made
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a rhubarb pie but I know it's just too
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iffy to even put in the effort
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so what also like oh they're you know
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making a pie is a good amount of work
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because it cuz the way you make it you
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make the crust from scratch you you know
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easy part well for you anyway so the
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point I bet if most people tried to make
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a pie crust with someone who knows how
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to make pie crust they would see that it
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literally takes ten minutes don't want
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the motor built yeah don't let the
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butter melt but like there's tiny little
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techniques to learn and as long as you
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make it with someone who's already made
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it you will see it only takes ten
◼
►
minutes it has like three ingredients
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and you are done and you have pie crust
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and it's awesome and there's no need to
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buy pie crust from the store anymore
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because you almost always have the
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ingredients for pie crust is just like
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butter flour and water right and so yeah
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unless you're doing for like
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more complicated crust that has like you
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know some cream cheese or something in
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it for some reason but you don't have to
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there's lots of things Oh God baking so
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fun I love how much fun you have baking
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►
that way I have all those fun stuff to
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taste all right well what's your number
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all right we're talking about for worst
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pies my number four you were going to
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despise this pick but fortunately it's
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not cheesecake it is cherry cheese pie
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well that's fine it's disgusting but
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it's still a pie so cherry this this is
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a staple of mine growing up so it's a
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laughably disgusting that's part of it's
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part of the the value for me a
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sentimental value but I think it's also
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really good it's one of the recipes that
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is on the can of sweetened condensed
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milk there you go if you buy the
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candidate gets eagle brand like the big
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brand of sweetened condensed milk it's
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like it's on their website it's on some
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of their cans I think and it also on the
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cherry can maybe cuz that's all father's
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yes so you pretty much don't make any of
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this it's more than that you assemble
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this pie so so you you get a premade
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graham cracker crust it has to be a
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grandpa crust you know so the pre-made
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ones of those and don't bother making a
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fresh one to put in these horrible
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ingredients into the pie because you
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know know know where the filling is
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cream cheese sweetened condensed milk
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and lemon juice blended together and
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then the topping you pour that into the
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graham cracker crust and you top it with
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a can of those red syrupy cherry
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cherries from cherry pie filling it's a
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it's literally can of pie filling so
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it's just like cherries in a really
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thick goopy sugary red sauce is so 70s
◼
►
it really is and it's really delicious
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and like is it it's it really delicious
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it really is mm-hmm yeah so cherokees
◼
►
pie it's very easy you pretty much can't
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►
screw it up and it's it's really you
◼
►
know it's already screwed up it's really
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►
junky flavors it's all like junk food
◼
►
and and sugar and everything but it's
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delicious and I love it
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►
I don't love it as much as fancier pies
◼
►
but it's definitely my number four this
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is like the time when I was in school
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for like first grade or something and my
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parents came to open school night and my
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mom cooked us beautiful homemade meals
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►
every night it was always something
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►
very much prided herself in having
◼
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amazing dinners and being a great mom
◼
►
when it came to pretty much everything
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►
but when it came to making dinners for
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her family and what does her daughter
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►
her firstborn daughter the firstborn
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granddaughter of the family put on the
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►
wall of my favorite foods when for a
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►
little interview thing that for open
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►
school night stovetop stuffing stovetop
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►
stuffing was my favorite food I probably
◼
►
had it once right and my mom was
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►
horrified I don't have ever had so this
◼
►
is like one of those moments where it's
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►
like you're like please it's not your
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►
number one no it's my number four it
◼
►
just barely made the list but I do like
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►
it I bake a lot I know and to four of
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►
you only have four choices you have four
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►
slots don't worry the rest is all things
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►
that you either make or can make okay
◼
►
but still to lose one of the four to
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►
that pie I know it does sting a little
◼
►
I knew you would be upset about this I
◼
►
have been okay I had to be honest it's
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►
my number four it's okay
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►
I know it's sentimental value yeah and
◼
►
it's also just really good it's I mean
◼
►
it's pure sugar but it's really good
◼
►
anyway what is your number three apple
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►
pie really okay and simple apple pie and
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►
you and your referring only to the
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►
lattice top four already not the crumble
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►
top right I don't really mind as long as
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it's kind of like a brown Betty apple
◼
►
pie I like a lot of brown sugar and
◼
►
cinnamon and you know all those little
◼
►
flavors lately from my mom's recipe of
◼
►
apple pie that I normally make I've been
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►
adding a little ginger and I've been
◼
►
really liking that so and when you make
◼
►
I will pie you have to make it with all
◼
►
different kinds of apples if you make it
◼
►
with one kind of apple if you just go to
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►
the store and you buy a bag of apples
◼
►
you're doing it wrong don't do that by
◼
►
lots of different apples and have more
◼
►
green apples than any other variety yeah
◼
►
slightly more because they they hold up
◼
►
really well in a pie so yeah my mom's
◼
►
and my brown Betty apple pie
◼
►
it's great crumble top or full top or
◼
►
lattice top that's it to me that is a
◼
►
different pie is like they are but I
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►
all tops of an apple pie that's fair
◼
►
okay I'll give you that because it can
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►
it can hold all of those different tops
◼
►
and your pie is also excellent because
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►
you you find a way to have the apples
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►
not be too watery like that's often one
◼
►
of the I think the biggest challenge
◼
►
when people make apple pies besides
◼
►
under doing the crust in the middle
◼
►
which is kind of related is if you have
◼
►
just if the inside just full of water
◼
►
yeah I reduce a little bit of the excess
◼
►
apple liquid if I end up letting them if
◼
►
I let them sweat for too long so those
◼
►
of you bakers out there if you are while
◼
►
you're preparing the crust if the apples
◼
►
are sitting in the cinnamon and sugar
◼
►
mixture too long or depending on the
◼
►
temperature outside or in your kitchen
◼
►
you the apples will sweat more or less
◼
►
so if I have a particular day where I'm
◼
►
making a pie and the apples sweat a lot
◼
►
and leave behind a lot of liquid I don't
◼
►
just pour all of that into the pie I
◼
►
reduce some of it on the stove and kind
◼
►
of make a little like caramel syrup and
◼
►
then put that back in the pie but you
◼
►
don't want to do that too much because
◼
►
then you'll get a dry pie so it's very
◼
►
tricky back yeah it's very much a you
◼
►
have to see the day late on the day what
◼
►
what it looks like it took you a couple
◼
►
years to get it right but I think the
◼
►
last year's I didn't have I brought one
◼
►
of those I brought a dry pie once when I
◼
►
just did it too much I know that was not
◼
►
good yeah the last couple years you've
◼
►
been pretty pretty silent thanks all
◼
►
right my number three it's boring but
◼
►
it's good it is the lemon meringue pie
◼
►
yeah I actually I had a little bit of a
◼
►
hesitation when putting this here
◼
►
whether I wasn't sure whether I wanted
◼
►
lemon meringue or lemon tart a lemon
◼
►
tart despite being named tart is clearly
◼
►
a pie and you know and a lemon meringue
◼
►
is very good but I have not had a lot of
◼
►
good meringues I've made a couple that
◼
►
were great but the actual like having
◼
►
someone else's pie or having out at a
◼
►
restaurant oftentimes the meringue part
◼
►
of lemon meringue pie is just like this
◼
►
really cheap flimsy foamy stuff that
◼
►
just falls off and it's it's kind of
◼
►
taste like plastic like well sometimes
◼
►
they over meringue it like it they over
◼
►
whip it and it gets too funny it just
◼
►
breaks down a little bit and gets
◼
►
crystallized a little bit yeah it's too
◼
►
dry sometimes so I didn't have any lemon
◼
►
on mine cuz I don't know I don't really
◼
►
like a lemon curd flavor yeah a bit too
◼
►
strong I really do like I well it's
◼
►
lemon curd but the the the kind of
◼
►
filling that's usually the base of a
◼
►
lemon meringue pie that's usually not
◼
►
very you know bitter or egg yolky at all
◼
►
it's pretty it's pretty sugar yeah I
◼
►
definitely based my picks on consistency
◼
►
mmm based on where you can get it so
◼
►
right if I you know for a peach
◼
►
raspberry I don't really think you could
◼
►
screw that up most of the time it's just
◼
►
peach and raspberry and I like those
◼
►
flavors just as is apple pie I almost
◼
►
like all apple pies there aren't really
◼
►
in any apple pie that I would eat and be
◼
►
like whoo this is terrible who says that
◼
►
that's fair and the same goes for my
◼
►
other two picks all right what was your
◼
►
number three well did you want to finish
◼
►
talking about your lemon pie oh I mean
◼
►
yeah just remembering I'm a big fan of
◼
►
citrus flavors in desserts I really
◼
►
enjoy them and it's just a really great
◼
►
pie you know it's it's basically lemon
◼
►
the crust is often a little bit bland
◼
►
because it's usually not a graham
◼
►
cracker crust ring like that so I that's
◼
►
one of the reasons didn't ring a little
◼
►
bit higher for me but and it's hard to
◼
►
find one that's made well but when it is
◼
►
made well I love love meringue pie and
◼
►
honorable mention for this lot
◼
►
lemon lemon tarts which are basically
◼
►
just the bottom half of a meringue okay
◼
►
well tarts are I would definitely
◼
►
classify tarts as pies they're just
◼
►
skinny pies yeah yeah exactly
◼
►
tarts it's a skinny cousin of pies all
◼
►
right what is your number two
◼
►
so you can pop by we already Popeye you
◼
►
have anything any more say in the matter
◼
►
no love me a pop pie my favorite Popeye
◼
►
ever is Tania's potpie yeah it's really
◼
►
good my best friend down the block shout
◼
►
sometimes she listens I love your Popeye
◼
►
please make it very soon it has a lot of
◼
►
time in it it is delicious oh my gosh
◼
►
she makes the best pot pie she like does
◼
►
the whole roofing and every ah yeah
◼
►
every it on all counts it's amazing I'm
◼
►
dreaming over right now I might just
◼
►
call her up tomorrow the show first we
◼
►
just did a show about pies Dania you
◼
►
need to feed the beast
◼
►
give me the Popeye Popeye my number two
◼
►
with a full crust top and bottom
◼
►
oh yeah of course I mean you can't have
◼
►
any like I don't I don't know understand
◼
►
those pot those pot pies that only have
◼
►
like the crusts on top it's like no no
◼
►
go full pot pie no if the crust is only
◼
►
on top then you've used made a really
◼
►
sad version of chicken and biscuits you
◼
►
have not made Bob I know how flaky pot
◼
►
alright my number two related to the
◼
►
lemon meringue category but better in
◼
►
every way the key lime pie hey you know
◼
►
the key like key lime you know for me it
◼
►
doesn't even have to be actually
◼
►
actually made from key limes key limes
◼
►
are pretty hard to find
◼
►
bottled key lime juice is easier but but
◼
►
it's still not that easy to find so
◼
►
pretty much any kind of lime custard pie
◼
►
that now labeled key lime pie this is
◼
►
where you are wrong no because key lime
◼
►
pie is my number one okay so you're
◼
►
gonna you're gonna defend the priority
◼
►
we're gonna talk about key lying lahiri
◼
►
laws yeah key lime juice is very
◼
►
different than lime juice it tastes
◼
►
different and it looks different if you
◼
►
make key if you make pie out of lime
◼
►
it's gonna taste very different than if
◼
►
you make pie out of key lime now you
◼
►
don't need for the flecks of lime bits
◼
►
that go into the pie yeah the zest does
◼
►
not need to be genuine key limes exam
◼
►
very hard to find yeah I've only done it
◼
►
for you like twice once for your key
◼
►
lime birthday party and I think once
◼
►
another time that we happen to find key
◼
►
limes but the juice is important it does
◼
►
not it cannot be substituted so you are
◼
►
making lime pie or you were making key
◼
►
lime pie okay well and there's a bunch
◼
►
of different variations minor variations
◼
►
really on how to make it I think one of
◼
►
the bigger questions is whether it's
◼
►
cooked or not and then how much it's
◼
►
cooked these are all I made my number
◼
►
one because it doesn't matter all key
◼
►
lime pie is good the frozen lime pie
◼
►
martha stewart's key lime pie super good
◼
►
there is also I made and in kind of like
◼
►
an icebox key lime pie with sweetened
◼
►
condensed milk and like a whipped cream
◼
►
kind of emulation yeah an assembly pie
◼
►
and that was very good key lime pie bars
◼
►
very good there's so many ways to make
◼
►
key lime pie did you basically have like
◼
►
graham quadrats key lime custard on top
◼
►
of a graham cracker crust everything
◼
►
else is optional some people put a
◼
►
little bit whipped cream on top
◼
►
I like a little bit of that to help no
◼
►
rang on there key lime pie I think
◼
►
that's wrong I agree and I like lemon
◼
►
however again I will still eat more
◼
►
because I like healing pie yeah I will
◼
►
still I would still eat it too but yeah
◼
►
meringue has no place on a key lime pie
◼
►
anyway my number two is key lime pie
◼
►
made pretty much any way but it has to
◼
►
have a graham cracker crust it has to be
◼
►
I guess since you're telling me all this
◼
►
it has to be made with key lime juice
◼
►
and ideally with a small dollop of fresh
◼
►
wonderful absolutely love it the colder
◼
►
the better in the fridge is great and
◼
►
the freezer is great absolutely love it
◼
►
yeah I always try to make you key lime
◼
►
pie for your birthday in July which is
◼
►
every time I serve it it just giant blob
◼
►
of Key Lime just is that everywhere it's
◼
►
horrible exactly I try I try so hard
◼
►
all right so number one so your number
◼
►
one is Key Lime you said key limes that
◼
►
we're done with your list right yeah no
◼
►
I just I really love Key Lime Pie you
◼
►
are the one that introduced me to loving
◼
►
Key Lime Pie I think before before you I
◼
►
don't know maybe like six years ago I
◼
►
would have been like what are you crazy
◼
►
I don't like that at all I'm
◼
►
occasionally right but it turns out it's
◼
►
really good and every time that I've
◼
►
like had a spoonful of yours when you've
◼
►
gone for dessert I've loved it and
◼
►
wished I had it for my dessert and
◼
►
usually will end up eating half of yours
◼
►
anyway that's how it works cuz you know
◼
►
you love me like that mm-hmm that's okay
◼
►
so yeah it's okie lime Key Lime Pie I
◼
►
just I've never come across one that I
◼
►
didn't like so it has to be number one
◼
►
all right my number one is something
◼
►
that I would be a lot less willing to
◼
►
share with you that much the New York
◼
►
style fruit tart oh now I figure about
◼
►
fruit tarts right and that does count
◼
►
yes I you figure like if key lime pies
◼
►
yep or and of lemon tarts can't like if
◼
►
there are so many other things that are
◼
►
various types of tarts that are in pie
◼
►
crust that I have a custard filling that
◼
►
are topped with something sweet that's
◼
►
what a fruit tart is mm-hmm
◼
►
and so by all accounts a fruit tart
◼
►
counts as a pie if all those other
◼
►
things do and then clearly do especially
◼
►
like key lime pie is named pie and is
◼
►
like nobody would ever say key lime pie
◼
►
is not a pie and if a key lime pie is a
◼
►
pie then definitely fruit tarts or pies
◼
►
that's true yeah all right yeah fruit
◼
►
tarts are pies mm-hmm when I was looking
◼
►
at lists of pies and everything I
◼
►
actually didn't for this was one of the
◼
►
very last things added to my list
◼
►
because I also was not thinking of it
◼
►
and I thought well you know I wonder how
◼
►
many tarts count as pies and I started
◼
►
looking a list of tarts and that came up
◼
►
and like oh my god of course that's of
◼
►
course that's number one yes so I've
◼
►
seen a lot of different interpretations
◼
►
of what a fruit tart is so forgive me
◼
►
listeners I'm going to tell you just in
◼
►
case you don't know it for those of you
◼
►
who do know I'm sorry so a fruit tart is
◼
►
a sweet pastry crust in the crust is a
◼
►
usually vanilla flavored custard on top
◼
►
of the custard is fresh pieces of fruit
◼
►
usually strawberries blueberries and
◼
►
raspberries or some combination there
◼
►
may be just two of those sometimes
◼
►
Keeley yeah sometimes Kiwi or like maybe
◼
►
a little a little like peach wedge might
◼
►
be on there sometimes it depends on when
◼
►
you get it and where but almost always
◼
►
they're they're mostly berries
◼
►
blueberries and strawberries and
◼
►
raspberries seem to be like the main
◼
►
ones and then on top of the fresh fruit
◼
►
is a thick glaze made of honey apricot
◼
►
jam and sugar that is to me the the best
◼
►
dessert like if I have to just pick like
◼
►
a one dessert like an half at the end of
◼
►
a meal like give me like an espresso and
◼
►
a fruit tart oh my god that's the best
◼
►
like just I love fruit tarts the only
◼
►
major downside of fruit tarts is that to
◼
►
make them really well takes a lot of
◼
►
work as you know TIFF when you make them
◼
►
Cornish it takes a lot of work cuz like
◼
►
you can you can skip a lot of the steps
◼
►
on pretty much every part of it you can
◼
►
make uh you can get like premade crust
◼
►
you can make a really crappy crust you
◼
►
can get I did and I tried to jello
◼
►
filling or pudding filling instead of
◼
►
instead of like making a whole custard
◼
►
after making it the hard way I tried
◼
►
making it an easy way and they
◼
►
not as good yeah and they're still good
◼
►
but mamatha difference between good and
◼
►
great for fruit tarts and the great ones
◼
►
do take way more effort because you do
◼
►
have to make the custard from scratch
◼
►
when you're like and you're like
◼
►
scratching out the vanilla bean
◼
►
and and like pushing the custard through
◼
►
the through the sieve thing it kind of
◼
►
does feel pretty awesome going through
◼
►
all the steps like you kind of like a
◼
►
mad scientist yeah and making the glaze
◼
►
is not easy usually I make the glaze for
◼
►
us and I've it is surprisingly difficult
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to get that apricot glaze to be the
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correct consistency and flavor the
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spoiler you have to strain it and
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secondly you you have to use a lot of
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simple syrup in it as well not like only
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use a little bit of apricot jelly and
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most of it is simple syrup and maybe
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honey if you go that way but anyway when
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fruit tarts are made well they are
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wonderful things I first got addicted to
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them when we were coming home through
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Ghent through Grand Central every day
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there's a couple of little markets like
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in the like kind of off to the side and
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then in the main area of Grand Central
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that you can basically get a fruit tart
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every day like as you go home on the
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train every day and boy it's that it's
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dangerous and glorious and and when you
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make them your easy ones we're not as
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good as those but your hard ones are
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even better than those they better be my
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god I did all the work
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so yeah look I love of good fruit tart
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it is definitely my number one as soon
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as I realized that it should be included
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in a category of pies it was a
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no-brainer that's why you were so
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excited about doing pies I was yeah
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I totally got I thought you'd be really
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mad about the cheesecake and the chicken
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pot pie being included I'm very angry at
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the Cheesecake yeah it's cake it's cake
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pot pies is pie I don't it's not
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marketing it's right there it's totally
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pie anyway it literally says cake if it
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were like he should have said nothing
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that would be up for debate but it
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literally says cake the other one says
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pie I don't know what the problem is